Posting multiple goods issues against the same delivery

Question

Hello gurus,
We are a fashion apparel company using ECC 6.0 and would like to know if it is possible to post mutliple goods issues against the same delivery?
I will explain the business requirement.
- We create a stock transport order to deliver 400 units of merchandise to on or our retail stores (STO is created and processed to a delivery).
- This information is passed down to our warehouse management system (which is not SAP)
- Our warehouse management system has the ability to split a delivery into multiple shipment when needed.  For example, our warehouse may only be able to complete 250 units for our morning shipment and will therefore pick, pack and post this.  This will feed back into SAP and process a 641 movement so that the units now show as "in transit".  This is needed so that our stores can process the ASN and move the units into their inventory when they receive the merchandise later that day.
- During the afternoon, our warehouse will process the remaining 150 units and will ship this to our store later in the evening or next day.
Currently, we are not able to process another goods issue against a delivery as we close out the delivery during the first goods issue.  We would prefer not to have to generate a new delivery for our DC and let them continue to process against the same delivery, but we are unsure how to configure this.
Any help or guideance would be extremely appreciated
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi RJ,
First of all sorry to write such a lengthy reply,In one line if i want to summerize then it is not possible with standard SAP however we can achieve this by writing some piece of code in both the system
AS - IS
               Business process
          From business process point of view you are right that once the pick & pack is in process it is not advisable to create a new delivery document for balance quantity and share the same with WMS as then they have to create a new document in WMS and start picking based on that rather then the old delivery document number. if i am in your position then i can give a thought like this
e.g.
Delivery                                                  - 100 Unit
Shipment confirmation from WMS            -   60 Unit
Change in delievry quanity / Pick qty        -   60 Unit
Invoice from SAP                                    -   60 Unit
Second confirmation from WMS                          -   40  Unit
Change in the existing delivery quantity                -   Now here we have two option either
1) Change the delivery quantity / Pick qty  to (60+40) =100 or
2) Remove the 60 and update 40 as delivery and pick quantity
Pros & Cons
if you will select option 1 then furhter invoice will happen for 100 unit which is incorrect as physically you are shipping only 40 unit
if you are selecting option 2 then the document flow is incorrect as you don't have history(in SAP) for the 60 unit which was shipped earlier
Solution ::
so in my opinion the best option is to create a seperate delivery document (store the old delviery number in one of the field of the new delivery and pass the same to custom segment of the IDoc) transmit the IDoc to WMS write the validation logic in WMS
Find the record with old deliver number in the WMS system, check the status whether it is active or inactive
if it is acitive Validate the Material + qty with the WMS record(Material + balance quantity) if both are same then pass the new deliery number to custom field of the WMS table
At the time of confirming back to the SAP, Write a piece of code in SAP that if the incoming idoc custom field(new delivery number) field is populated then ignore the orignal document number and post the document using the new delivery document number
Hope this help