Packing instruction determination

Question

Hi!
Could anyone please tell me the ways to do packing in SD?
I set the Packing Material & Finished Good's Material Master's Packing related information and then create in DN, and do packing, I could create Handling Units.
And the handling units split is do according to the Allowed Weight I set in the Material Master.
Then I wonder what is the use of Packing Instructions (POP1) and also the Packing Determination (POF1)?
Where in the Customizing control which Packing Determination Procedure is using?
And if a Packing Instruction is found, then how the system control the Handling Unit split? By the Packing Instruction or by the "Allowed Weight" information in Material Master?
Thanks in advance!
Best Regards,
Chris

Answer 1

hi Chris,
here are several ways in which you can access the packing transaction. The transaction is integrated in delivery, goods receipt, shipping, repetitive manufacturing and discrete production.
Features
In the packing transaction, you can:
•     Create HU proposals (automatically from packing instructions or manually by entering items). You create an HU proposal manually if you do not want to pack according to packing instructions. You build a hierarchy of load carrier, auxiliary packing materials, if required, and the materials to be packed. For more information, see
Hierarchical Display in the Packing Transaction.
•     Select alternative packing instructions on which to base HU proposals
•     Delete HU proposals (that is, unpack materials)
•     Unpack nested HU proposals
•     Repack unpacked materials and unpacked HU proposals
•     Check HU proposals. To do this, the system simulates handling unit creation. The system cannot create handling units from HU proposals with the status "Faulty".
•     Display handling units that the system is going to create from the proposals
•     Recalculate weights and volumes of a handling unit. This is important if the measurements in the proposal have been modified manually in the packing transaction and now have to be reset to the values from the packing instruction or material master
•     Create handling units
The Level 1 field in the table specifies the number of HUs on the highest packing level that are being created from the HU proposal. The system marks with an asterisk the items that are assigned to this HU proposal, that is, are either used on the highest packing level (packaging materials) or are packed on the highest level (packed goods or sub-HU).
If the item is a load carrier, the field Level 2 specifies the number of subordinate HUs on the second packing level, per main HU. For all other item categories, the system uses an asterisk to show which items are packed in or on the load carrier of this subordinate HU.
All further packing levels are displayed in the same way.
Material-Euro-palletIntermediate layerPallet coverboxLidFinished product.
Ten sub-HUs (the boxes) are shown on the second packing level, to which in turn lids and finished products are assigned.