VT04 - multiple selection variants possible?

Question

Hello,
When we create shipments "manually" via VT01n, we have 2 different selection variants to add deliveries onto the shipments:
- one variant which selects all deliveries without route schedule also those for which the goods issue date is in the future
- one variant which selects all deliveries with route schedule and where the goods issue date of delivery is set on "Today" or in the past
There is no way to "combine" these 2 variants into 1 variant, because we would miss some deliveries that way
We want to use transaction VT04/VT07 to automatically create these shipments.
But in the selection screen of VT04, you can only set one selection variant (field is not "multiple selectable) to add deliveries and there is no option to set the 2 selection variants we have created above
Are there any other options?
Thanks for your help.
Kr,
Alexander
Edited by: Alexander Vilain on Jan 21, 2011 12:11 PM

Answer 1

Hi Alexander,
They way I interpret your question is, when you use VT01N you have the option of grouping deliveries into one shipment i.e . multiple deliveries into one shipment.
Based on that understanding :
Did you try to use transportation chain option in VT04 to group deliveries.
Click on the "Create Transportation Chain "
And use " Multiple grouping criteria and data options " as required by you.
You can have same shipping type for example truck and group the deliveries as main, preliminary legs etc.
There needs to lot of testing to make sure deliveries are picking up correct and later VT07 to schedule batch job
Let me know if this helps.
Thanks
Naga Yarramsetty