Storage Units Details From Delivery Note TOs For EDI IDOC

[Former Member]

Hello experts,

We have Warehouse Management activated in all our Plant Storage Locations. We are using Storage units to track our pallet-level information in WM. When we ship product to a 3PL or a Customer, we are asked to provide pallet-level information to them (Storage Unit info).

• When we ship product to a 3PL we create an STO and an Outbound Delivery against that STO. We then pick our Storage Units for that Outbound Delivery using a TO(Transfer order)
• When we ship product to a customer, we create a Sales Order and an Outbound Delivery against that Sales Order. We then pick our Storage Units for that Outbound Delivery using a TO(Transfer order)

Is there any SAP standard functionality that can help us create an EDI segment with Storage Unit level details? Do we have to write custom code to get it? What do you recommend we do to obtain that level of detail on EDI for our Outbound Deliveries.

-Thanks

-Mr. Bello.

[MANIS · Accepted solution]

Is your warehouse HU managed or only SU managed

As a best practice we generally supply the HU related information to the 3rd party upon Post Goods Issue to delivery. In your case if you want to supply the Storage unit information then you can plan to send the Transfer order information upon confirmation of the transfer order however that is not advisable as Confirmation of transfer order doesn't mean that you are dispatching the goods at the same time or same day or it might happen that due to some reason after TO Confirmation you are unable to perform the PGI and unable to dispatch the load at all.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Manish Kumar,

The warehouse is only SU-Managed.

I used HU's in the past and those create a great EDI segment that show HU-level information. The problem is that this company doesn't want to use HUs.

Is there any way we can supply the SU related information to the 3rd party upon Post Goods Issue to delivery? Triggered by "Post Goods Issue to delivery" maybe run a query of the TOs linked to the Delivery and then obtaining the details of the SUs on those TOs? Have you seen something like this done in the past?

-Mr. Bello

[MANIS · Accepted solution]

To be honest with you, Never came across that scenario in any of my previous implementation however as you mentioned correctly you can write a medium to complex logic to

1) Identify the TO by delivery number

2) Find the Source SU number (LTAP- VLENR, as 916 is a Non SU managed area and you won't get SU number there, Also i hope that you don't do any value added activity where the source SU get's converted into another SU as a result of any value added activity)

3) Pass the information to the IDoc and send the detail upon PGI

Limitation of the above process

Above process will give the right result, only if you always pick stock from SU managed area and the full SU

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the great input Manish Kumar. You are correct on the limitations of the custom-logic.

It seems like we will have to implement the custom logic or convince the company to start using HUs.

I will mark this discussion as closed.

-Mr Bello.