Create HU containing HU´s of several Outbound Deliveries

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

We have the following situation.

We receive a sales order from a client that has several stores. We then create several outbound deliveries for the sales order; an outbound delivery for each store. All the outbound deliveries are to be shipped together to the client´s central warehouse. 

We use the packing function within Tx. VL01N to create HU for each outbound delivery (we create one or more HU for each outbound delivery, depends on the quantities of the materials destined to a particular store). We then need to pack the HU's of all or several of the outbound deliveries into a bigger box (into another HU).

For example:

Sales Order 0001:

• Material A x 100 units
• Material B x 150 units
• Material C x 120 units
• Material D x 130 units

Outbound Delivery 0001-1 (destined to Store AAA):

• Material A x 50 units
• Material B x 75 units
• Material C x 20 units

Outbound Delivery 0001-2 (destined to Store BBB):

• Material B x 50 units
• Material C x 60 units
• Material D x 80 units

Outbound Delivery 0001-3 (destined to Store CCC):

• Material A x 50 units
• Material B x 25 units
• Material C x 40 units
• Material D x 50 units

Each Outbound Delivery is packed in a "small" box - HU:

• Outbound Delivery 0001-1 (Store AAA): 0000000001
• Outbound Delivery 0001-2 (Store BBB): 0000000002
• Outbound Delivery 0001-3 (Store CCC): 0000000003

We need to pack the three (3) HU mentioned above into a bigger box; in other words, we need to create an HU that contains the three HU's created for the outbound deliveries belonging to the sales order.

How can we create an HU that contains the HU's created for the outbound deliveries belonging to a specific sales order?

Thank you in advance.

Best Regards,

Leonidas Oyaga

[Former Member]

Hello Leonidas,

For your business scenario, you can create/assign individual HUs (small box/carton) to each individual deliveries. In the next step group together all the deliveries into a single shipment using transaction VT01 and then you can pack each individual HUs (box/carton) into a Higher level HU (Bigger box/Pallet) in the same transaction.

Regards,

Pavan

[Former Member]

Hi Pavan,

Thank you for your response.

I am going to clarify the scenario we are trying to work with. After creating the individual HUs (small box) for each delivery, we then want to pack these HUs into bigger boxes (Other HUs).

The final result of our scenario might be 5 HUs (bigger boxes) that belong to a same sales order and each HU might contain 10 HUs (samll box insides bigger boxes).

We then ship the 5 HUs to our client. But in that same shipment we might be sending other sales order (Example: 7 HUs ( bigger boxes) each containing 3 HUs that pertains to another sales order from a different client) pertaining to other clients.

How can we pack the small boxes - HUs - belonging to individual deliveries from the same sales order into bigger boxes - other HUs - before creating a single shipment?

Best Regards,

Leonidas Oyaga

[former_member182609]

My advice is instead of packing items in Outbound delivery do packing the deliveries at shipment  header level.Create One HU /delivery to avoid confusion.This is simple process and you can track it easly.