Multiple Outbound Deliveries

[Former Member]

Hi,

How can I create multiple outbound deliveries for a Stock Transfer Order? The STO has more than a thousand items, which makes one outbound delivery with a thousand line items quite difficult to process with our current warehouse. I need to cut the Stock Transfer by number of line items...for example the STO with 1000 line items will create 20 outbound deliveries with 50 line items each.

Thanks,

Lee

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Lee,

First of all you can not save the STO with 1000 line items as limit for any sales/sto is 499. You may wonder why this? Because for each line item there will be 2 financial entries Debit and Credit and in 1 FI documents you can post maximum 999 entries.

so it will be better to process 3 to 4 documents say with 250 line items and then create delivery.

Also if you want to create automatic delivery for such documents then goto VOV8, select your document type, and in shipping data select IMMEDIATE Delivery as A Create delivery immediately

But i will suggest you to create 4 documents.

Hope this will help

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Wish,

Thanks for the reply. I created my Stock Transfer through MRP, and it did create more than 499 line items. I also tested creating the Stock transfer for Cross-company transfers, and it still created a purchase order more than 499. These orders are already filtered per Purch Grp, Del Date, Vendor Subrange, Item Category, Comp Code, Plant, and SLoc...and yet the Stock Transfer contains numerous line items. That is why to reduce the efforts of the warehouse, if it is possible to create multiple outbound deliveries instead of one which will take a very long time to process.

Is the transaction VOV8 applicable for Purchasing Documents? I checked it out, and it was for Sales Order Types

Thanks,

Lee

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

for purchasing documents please follow path

Materials Management  Purchasing  Purchase Order  Define Document Types

[Former Member]

In the warehouse, subsequent outbound delivery split functionality can be used to split the outbound deliveries to spread the load.

You can recommend the warehouse to use this functionality in case of outbound deliveries with line items more than 499.

Please reward if this helps.