"shipping point" and "loading group" in SAP SD/MM

Hi experts,
Could somebody explain me the difference betwen "shipping point" and "loading group" in SAP SD/MM.
best regards,
Hermann

A delivery is always initiated from a shipping point. The shipping point can be proposed automatically during order processing depending on the plant, loading group and shipping condition.
Its plays a vary important role as without a shipping point you really cant create a delivery document
Loading groups are defined in Material master Record , which specifically means which group will load the material for the transportaion, is it done by Crane, or on pellets, etc ...
Hope this helps
Cheers

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Shipping point 01 loading group plant storage location not defined.

Hi All,
I have a unique problem where iam getting the above error when sales order is created using incomplete log.
I have checked all the settings related to Shipping point
in OVL2 Shipping point are assigned,
in OVL3 picking location is also assigned.
I have been searching entire SDN and help.sap.com for the above error for last three days and post a new thread.
Please help, points rewards.
Regards,
Vinod.

Dear Vinod
First of all I am really happy that you have taken the trouble to find out a solution to your problem and since you were not able to get it, you had posted a new thread. Of late, this is very rare people searching the forum b4 posting.
Coming to your problem, go to customer master Sales Area tab and see in Shipping tab, what Shipping Condition is maintained. Ensure that the same is maintained in OVL2.
Similarly, the same for Loading Group. Normally, by oversight, people commit mistakes by maintaining differently which is not assigned in masters and this would have missed your attention. For example, you would have assigned 01 in customer master and in OVL2, you would have maintained 03.
Also, please ensure that in OVXC, you have assigned shipping point to your plant.
thanks
G. Lakshmipathi

Lead Time - Customizatiou0131n steps: Shipping point, route, and loading group

It says about delivery scheduling that "The lead time considers the shipping point, route, and loading group". Can anybody explain me briefly the customization menu steps about this sentence?
Thanks in advance.

Please go through this document it will help you
1) Maintain transportation planning point through Menu as follows:
IMG Maintain Logistic Execution  Definition Enterprise Structure  transportation planning point.
Create your own like BP01 enter the general data¡¯s required
2) Defining modes of transport:
IMG RoutesBasic Transportation Functions  Transportation Logistic Execution Define modes of transportDefine routes
Use the standard like:
Shipping type: 01
Description: Road
3) Define shipping types :
Basic Transportation Transportation Logistic ExecutionIMG Define shipping types Route Functions
Or through T-code: SM30
PT: 01
Description: Truck
Mdtr: 01
STPG: 0001
4) Define transportation connecting point :
LogisticIMG DefineRoutes  Basic Transportation Functions  Transportation Execution Define transportation connection pointsroutes
Copy the std point and make it FB01 as departure zone and FB02 as destination zone
5) Define routes and stages.
 Logistic Execution IMG Define Define routes Routes  Basic Transportation Functions Transportation routes and stages
Use the standard route and copy it as FB0001 and enter the departure zone and destination as what we created.
6) Defining Transportation Zone:
Basic Transportation Logistic Execution IMG Define transportation Router determination  Route Transportation Functions zones
Use the standard transportation zone depending on the route so as for the example use 0000000003 - Southern Region
7) Maintain country or transportation zone for shipping points
 Logistic Execution IMG  Route determination  Route  Basic Transportation Functions Transportation Maintain country and transportation zone for shipping point
Shipping point be ASH1 and route as 0000000003 which is assigned to country India
8) Maintain route determination:
Logistic ExecutionIMG Route determination Route  Basic Transportation Functions  Transportation  Maintain route determination
Country of departure: India
Departure Zone: 0000000003
Country of destination: India
Destination Zone: 0000000003
And enter the datas needed like shipping condition 01, etc.
Maintain Transportation relevance for shipping point, sales document type and delivery types.
9) Now create shipping types
IMG Define shipment Shipments  Transportation Logistic Execution types
Copy the standard 0001 and make it to AFIL
10) Define and assign traffic zones through T-Code: T_76 (or) thru menu as follows
IMG Define Basic functions  Shipments cost  Transportation Logistic Execution and assign tariff zones
Copy the standard and make it to FABTARIFF and assign our transportation planning point as ATP1, ATP2 assign tariff zone to every particular transportation planning point
11) Define and assign pricing procedures
Shipments Transportation  Logistic Execution IMG define and assign pricing Price control  Pricing cost procedures
Copy the standard shipping cost pricing procedure SDFC00 to FBSC01
12) Assign purchasing data:
 Logistic Execution IMG Assign purchasing data Settlement  Shipments cost Transportation
13) Assign transportation planning point to shipping condition, purchase organization, purchasing group and to plants.
14) Define Automatic G/L account determination:
 Transportation  Logistics Execution IMG Automatic G/L Account Determination Settlement Shipment Costs
Or through T-code: OMWB
Use G/L account 614000 as used in standard
15) Automatic determination of CO assignments:
IMG Automatic Settlement  Shipment Costs  Transportation Logistics Execution Determination of CO Assignments
Or T-code: OKB9
16) Maintain shipping point address.
 Logistics Execution  Definition Enterprise Structure Define, copy, delete, check shipping point
17) Creating G/L account centrally.
Financial AccountingAccounting  Master Records  General Ledger 
Individual Processing Centrally
Or through T-Code: FS00
18) Enter the G/L account 614000 to the company code AFIL
19) Create transportation condition records:
 Shipment cost  Transportation  Master data Logistic Execution createPrices
Or thru T-code: TK11
Enter condition type FB00 that is freight condition type, which is used as standard in the shipping cost pricing procedure.
Enter the price and save it
Process:
1. The system determines the pricing procedure for the shipment cost item-using transportation planning point, service agent and shipment cost item category
2. Calculation Basis
3. Condition Record
4. Access sequence.
For the sales order, create a delivery using VL01N and pick the goods. Now create a shipment using VT01N and assign the delivery to the shipment document. Make sure to enter the carrier and other details before performing the transportation planning and execution. Save the shipment document and PGI for the delivery would be done automatically.
A shipment represents a physical goods movement between two or more locations.
For the system to create a shipment, shipping-relevant deliveries must exist.
You use Transportation Planning to group pending deliveries into shipments and then to perform the shipments.
The outbound delivery documents contain routes that the system calculates in route determination, and a transportation planning date for the delivery.
Dynamic transportation planning is responsible for grouping together outbound deliveries into shipments that have at least the same route, visit plan type and the same transportation planning date.
The following restrictions can be taken into account for a shipment in Dynamic Transportation Planning:
Weight
Volume
Variable capacity
Number of stops
Maximum duration
Loading units
Create Shipment Document
Use
After the status of the delivery is open for transportation planning, it is possible to create a shipment document to schedule the transportation.
Transportation Create Single document Logistics Logistic Execution  TransportationPlanning
T.code: VT01n
Enter your transportation planning point and shipment type. Press enter.
Creating the shipment cost document
Use
After the deliveries are scheduled by shipment and the shipment is executed, now it is time to maintain and close the shipment document in order to record all relative information and ready for the shipment cost settlement.
Single document Logistics Logistic Execution  Transportation Shipment cost Create
T.code: VI01.
After creation of shipment cost doc. You settle the Shipment cost.
Go to VI02, enter shipment cost no.and press enter.
Then go to Overview -- Fright cost items, Select the line item and double click it.
Go as main menu: Item --> Acc. assignment, you enter G/L acc. and cost center to which the transportation cost will be posted.
On the Standard change, details Freight cost items screen, then check the check box Transfer, which means you will transfer the relative transportation cost to FI/CO, in this case, the system should determined which Purchase Order will used to settle the cost, so after you check the Transfer check box.
Press save button on the current screen.
Shipment cost settlement and documents:
Use
After the shipment cost settled in shipment cost document, it has the following affects:
It creates a service entry sheet that refers to the purchase order determined.
It posts acceptance of services performed.
It creates an accounting document for the accruals.
Further subsequent documents are created in FI.
Create Delivery:
T.code: Vl01n
Create TO:
T.code: LT03
Create Shipment Document
Use
After the status of the delivery is open for transportation planning, it is possible to create a shipment document to schedule the transportation.
 Transportation Planning  Create Single document Logistics Logistic Execution Transportation
T.code: VT01n
Enter your transportation planning point and shipment type. Press enter.
Creating the shipment cost document
Use
After the deliveries are scheduled by shipment and the shipment is executed, now it is time to maintain and close the shipment document in order to record all relative information and ready for the shipment cost settlement.
Single document Logistics Logistic Execution  Transportation Shipment cost Create
T.code: VI01.
After creation of shipment cost doc. You settle the Shipment cost.
Go to VI02, enter shipment cost no.and press enter.
Then go to Overview -- Fright cost items, Select the line item and double click it.
Go as main menu: Item --> Acc. assignment, you enter G/L acc. and cost center to which the transportation cost will be posted.
On the Standard change, details Freight cost items screen, then check the check box Transfer, which means you will transfer the relative transportation cost to FI/CO, in this case, the system should determined which Purchase Order will used to settle the cost, so after you check the Transfer check box.
Press save button on the current screen.
Shipment cost settlement and documents:
Use
After the shipment cost settled in shipment cost document, it has the following affects:
It creates a service entry sheet that refers to the purchase order determined.
It posts acceptance of services performed.
It creates an accounting document for the accruals.
Further subsequent documents are created in FI.
Generally process is-
1) VL01N
2) VT01
3) VL02N - PGI
4) VI01
5) ML81N Service Entry Sheet
6) MIRO Invoice Verification
Shipping docs (VT01) are created before PGI...
You cannot carry out transportation planning or creation of shipment after the goods issue has been executed. Once goods issue is done it means that the material has left your premises so there is no need for a transportation planning after it.
In case you need carry out the shipment documents at the end of the day you could just create the delivery documents during the day and at end of the day create the shipment documents and the goods issue
This link is also usseful:
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/LETRA/SDTRA.pdf
Hope this helps you.
Regards
nitin

Shipping point and storage location determination

for one of my delivery type i had defined shipping point determination as per following.
define shipping conditions
define loading group
assign shipping points: with combination of shipping conditionsloading groupplantprop shippping pointmanual shiping point.
i also checked the cmr and mmr both are correct.still system is not proposing shipping point and storage locatgion in my obd

Hi Charan
Shipping conditions is taken from sold to party
Pls check whether you are using a different SP and SH
Check in these t codes
In OVL2 are you seeing the shipping pt determination for your combination?
In OVL3 are you seeing the storage location determination for your combination?
If yes then shipping pt will be definately picked up in sales order
Storage location will be definately picked up in the delivery if you have assigned the rule MALA in OVLK
Have you assigned your delivering plant to your shipping pt in enterprise structure assignment?
This also check
Refresh the whole order and try again
If need be log out of SAP and relog and see provided you have youR OVL2 and OVL3 correct?
Note If shipping conditions are assigned to your order type in VOV8 then that will have priority over the shipping conditions of SP
So for that combination you should maintain shipping pt in OVL2
Regards
Raja

How to get automatic plant and shipping point and storage location

hi,
sap gurus,
how to get automatic plant and shipping point and storage location automatically into the sales order
i have done all the config settings for that
but its not appearing automatically.
regards,
balaji.t

Hi
Balaji...
U can get the plant in sales order, by doing the default the same in customer master or in material master. In customer master -- sales are data--shipping tab delivering plant there u can assign and get the same in order for that customer. it is better to do in customer master rather than in material master.
Shipping point is getting determine in sales order and u can not make it default like plant. Shipping point is determine in the basis of Shipping condition of customer ( ship to party)+ loading group of material + Deliverying plant there u have to assing the shipping point and it will flow in the sales order. Tcode OVL2
For S loc u have to enter manually in the sales order u can not get it automatically.
Hope this will help you.
Thx.

Shipping point and plant

Hi experts,
In VL01N, the system pops up the message below when entering storage location, picked qty & batch. Pls help to solve. Thx.
"Shipping from shipping point 2000 and plant 1001 is not possible. Message no. VL027".
Acutally, shipping point 2000 has been assigned to plant 1001 in OVXC. In shipping point determination, shipping condition 20 - loading group 1000 - plant 1001 - proposed shipping point 2000 has been maintained. Shipping condition & shipping point between the sales order & delivery match.

Hi Cathy
Please make sure that your plant 1001 and shipping point 2000 is assigned properly
Then your OVL2 shipping point determination settings
As you are getting this error while entering the storage location
That means your OVL3 is not maintained properly
OVL3 is storage location determination settings
It is determined thro
1.Shipping point
2.Delivering plant
3.Storage conditions from MMR (optional)
In t code OVL3 maintain for Shipping point 2001 and Delivering plant 1000 and storage conditions of material maintained in MMR (plant data/storage location data 1 ) or you can keep this as blank also
For this combination maintain your storage location the key which you are manually entering in VL01N
Regards
Raja

Shipping point and shiptoparty

hi,
can u pls tell the differnce between the shipping point and shiptoparty and sold to party and unloading poing and loading point ......................
tell me in ur won words
regards
Guur

Hi,
Shipping point : The physical location (for example, a warehouse or collection of loading ramps) from which you ship the item.
Use
You can predefine shipping/receiving points in the system, based on different combinations of
plants
shipping conditions
loading groups
During delivery processing, the shipping/receiving point is the most important criterion that you use to select deliveries.
A delivery can be shipped from one shipping point only or received at one receiving point only.
If you want to provide more detailed information about a shipping point you can specify a loading point (for example, one of a number of different loading ramps).
Example
If, for example, you want to ship refrigerated goods to a certain customer by rail, the system proposes a shipping point with a suitable location and equipment for loading refrigerated goods onto rail cars.
Procedure
The system can propose a shipping/receiving point. If valid alternatives are predefined in your system, you can change the shipping/receiving point manually.
You can define a user-specific default value for the shipping point in the user parameter VST.
Ship-to-party:
i buy a gift for my friend online.
i'll be the sol-to party for the website.
My friend will be the ship-to party.
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Ship-to-party: The partner to whom i ship the goods.
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i made configuration setting for shipping point and storage location determination during delivery process. still system is not proposing this data during delivery.
due to this reason lot of time is consuming during delivery creation.
plz suggest the complete configuration flow for this determination.

Dear Ram,
Can you please specify the configuration that you have made? And which storage location determination rule are you using for your Delivery Type?
Regards,
Amitabha

Very urgent : shipping point and delivery creation date

Hi :
I have a custom table with fields :
belnr, posnr, btyp, aufnr, ebeln, ebelp, livbeln, liposnr,matnr,wadat,kunnr,werks,bmeinh,getri,inaktiv,wabukz,erdat,aedat,loekz.
Custom Transaction with fields :
vbeln (field name belnr) , aufnr, delivery vbeln ( field name livbeln ),werks, mat .avail.dat ( mbdat ), transport.plan date(tddat),
matnr, and sales order item (posnr).
I have to select sales order , item from custom table based on plant (werks) shipping point , and delivery creation date.
how can i relate shipping point and delivery creation date to my query.
For delivery creation date, it should be selected based on current date+-2 and should choose MBDAT OR TDDAT which ever is earlier based on current date.
I would appreciate if anyone can give me som idea and full points r rewarded.
Thx.
Rag

Hi,
Try this:
select a1belnr a1posnr vbep~etenr into corresponding fields of table itab from a1 inner join vbap
on a1belnr = vbapvbeln
inner join vbep
on vbapvbeln = vbepvbeln and vbapposnr = vbepposnr
where a1~werks = p_werks
AND vbap~vstel = p_vstel
AND vbep~edatu = p_edatu
AND (vbep~mbdat <= p_edatu OR
vbep~tddat <= p_edatu ).
regards,
Anji

2LIS_12_VCITM populates the same Shipping Point and Receiving Plant

Hi Gurus,
We are using 2LIS_12_VCITM extractor which answers all delivery-related requirements. However when I checked the data in RSA3, Shipping Point and Receiving Plant are the same. So I checked some sample deliveries in table LIKP and it shows the correct shipping point and receiving plant (which are different to each other). I checked VL03N and table LIKP is giving the correct shipping points and receiving plants. Receiving Plant or LIKP-WERKS and Shipping Point or LIKP-VSTEL. My question is how this happened? Consequently, when I initialized in BW, shipping point and receiving plants are the same which should not be.
Thanks for all the help.

The data for the 2LIS_12_VCITM is not just sourced by LIKP (Delivery Header), but by LIPS (Delivery Item) too.
Plant, in this extractor, is sourced by LIPS-WERKS instead of LIKP-WERKS. The receiving plant is LIPS-UMWRK. If you require this data, you will have to enhance the structure and create the User Exit code in tcode CMOD to extract that particular data.

Shipping point and delivery creation date

Hi :
im selecting sales orders , items and schedule line
from a custom table based on plant, shipping point and delivery creation date.
Is there any relation between Schedule lines and delivery creation date.
For delivery creation date d_date = SY-DATUM, and should select Mat Avail dt MBDAT or Trans. planning dt TDDAT which ever comes earlier.
vbep-edatu = itab-d_date.
select a1belnr a1posnr vbep~etenr into corresponding fields of table itab from a1 inner join vbap
on a1belnr = vbapvbeln
inner join vbep on a1posnr = vbepposnr
where a1~werks = p_werks
AND vbap~vstel = p_vstel
AND vbep~edatu = p_edatu
AND (vbep~mbdat <= p_edatu OR
vbep~tddat <= p_edatu ).
can anyone help me with this select statement.
Thanks.
Raghu

Hi,
Try this:
select a1belnr a1posnr vbep~etenr into corresponding fields of table itab from a1 inner join vbap
on a1belnr = vbapvbeln
inner join vbep
on vbapvbeln = vbepvbeln and vbapposnr = vbepposnr
where a1~werks = p_werks
AND vbap~vstel = p_vstel
AND vbep~edatu = p_edatu
AND (vbep~mbdat <= p_edatu OR
vbep~tddat <= p_edatu ).
regards,
Anji

Shipping Point and Excise Condition

Hi,
This is my old issue for which I need solution.
When we change shiping point in sales order Excise condition become statistical for one plant.
But now with similar pricing with same sales organisation above setting are not working for other plant mean there is no change in condition when we are changing shipping point for that plant.
So please help me to solve this issue
Lalit

There is no direct link between Shipping Point and Excise Condition but CIN related settings are mainly dependent on Plant settings.
So check whether any user exit is applied.
G. Lakshmipathi

Shipping Point Vs Loading Point

A little clarity is needed btn the two...I think shipping point could be equated to a control office where all deliveries have to go through. Loading point is a physical location that deals with specialized (eg within car spare parts divison - sensors, belts, lights...etc) handling and could be at every plant location where goods are loaded onto the shipping vessel. How accurate is my understanding of the subject?

Hi,
Shipping point : The physical location (for example, a warehouse or collection of loading ramps) from which you ship the item.
Use
You can predefine shipping/receiving points in the system, based on different combinations of
plants
shipping conditions
loading groups
During delivery processing, the shipping/receiving point is the most important criterion that you use to select deliveries.
A delivery can be shipped from one shipping point only or received at one receiving point only.
If you want to provide more detailed information about a shipping point you can specify a loading point (for example, one of a number of different loading ramps).
Example
If, for example, you want to ship refrigerated goods to a certain customer by rail, the system proposes a shipping point with a suitable location and equipment for loading refrigerated goods onto rail cars.
Procedure
The system can propose a shipping/receiving point. If valid alternatives are predefined in your system, you can change the shipping/receiving point manually.
You can define a user-specific default value for the shipping point in the user parameter VST.
Loading point The exact physical location where the loading of a delivery item takes place (for example, the number of a specific loading bay).
A loading point is a subdivision of a shipping point.
The loading point can be entered manually in the delivery header.
First enter the shipping points for which you want to define loading points.
To define the loading points for this shipping point, enter a two- character, alphanumeric key and a description. In addition, you can enter a short text for each loading point to indicate the area of responsibility.
Hope it helps. Pl reward if useful.
Thanks & Regards
Sadhu Kishore

How are shipping point and delivery note connected ?

I wanted to understand how is shipping point connected to process of creating delivery notes....can we configure sap using SPRO such that the delivery note creation happens automatically for certain shipping point once the order is created and saved ....and for certain shipping point the delivery note is not automatically created ( assuming we are using the same order type) but the determination of automatic DN creation is done by the value of the shipping points ??

Actually what is shipping point?
Shipping point is an independent org.unit which is linked to the plant and represent the point of departure or receipt of materials.
Normally lot of shipping points are assigned to the plant.
Relation:
Actually a delivery is created from a single shipping point only.. That is the reason when u complete the sales order, at the time of creating the delivery note, u are forced to enter the shipping point, without that the system willn't proceed further.
Determination:
It is determined with the formula of shipping conditions + loading grp + deliv. plant
Answering to ur 2nd query,
when u are creating the delivery from the sales order screen (by going to menu bar and click delivery), the system automatically assumes the shipping pt is from the sales order.
But if u enter the different shipping point in delivery note creation, the system will thro an error that delivery split due to diff. shipping points.
Hope i clarify ur queries, ur further queries are welcomable.
Reward points if useful...
regards
Kaleeswaran

Invoice Splitting - for some shipping points and not others

Dear Gurus, I have a requirement where for some shipping points I need to be able to split an invoice on sales order (i.e. a separate invoice for each customer order) and for other shipping points I require a single invoice for multiple customer sales orders. Using the copy control rules for LF to F2, I have set the Refence Number to B but this does not achieve what I want. Would it be possible to achieve this via a copy requirements routine and by setting the values in VBRK-ZUKI? Do I just copy the standard 003 routine and apply my changes here? If yes, where do I insert the code - the top or bottom? Regards

In VOFM, first of all "Copying requirements" are used when we want to stop creating a target document from a source document or to prevent certain items from copying to target document under certain conditions. Copying requirements can't be used to do invoice split.
Data transfer routines are the ones that allow invoice split (in addition to allowing copying fields from source to target). Although "copying requirements" is a loosely used terminology, it is important we make distinction between copying requirements and data transfer routines as both are different and perform different functions.
SAP uses field VBRK-ZUKRI (a 40 character field) to store the combination of field values that are used as basis of invoice split. Invoice split happens if any of the fields stored in VBRK-ZUKRI differ across orders/deliveries (or their items) from which invoices are created.
We assign VBRK-ZUKRI during item copy control in data transfer routines. The fields are simply concatenated and assigned to VBRK-ZUKRI.
in VOFM, "Data transfer" routine 003 for Billing documents for example splits the invoice for each reference document, as shown by code below
Include FV60C003
*       For each reference document an invoice is created
FORM DATEN_KOPIEREN_003.
DATA: BEGIN OF ZUK,
          MODUL(3) VALUE '003',
          VTWEG LIKE VBAK-VTWEG,
          SPART LIKE VBAK-SPART,
          VGBEL LIKE VBRP-VGBEL,
        END OF ZUK.
ZUK-VTWEG = VBAK-VTWEG.
ZUK-SPART = VBAK-SPART.
IF KURGV-PERFK = SPACE.
    ZUK-VGBEL = VBRP-VGBEL.
ENDIF.
VBRK-ZUKRI = ZUK.
ENDFORM.
In the above coding we are concatenating VBAK-VTWEG (Distr channel), VBAK-SPART (Division), VBRP-VGBEL (Reference Order from billing item) as the criteria for invoice split. So if any of these field differ then it will cause a split. So basically we are creating one invoice for all items that reference a single order
So what you need to do for your requirement, is to copy the logic of data transfer routine 003 in VOFM to your own custom 9XX routine and make the assignment to ZUK / VBRK-ZUKRI only when shipping point (LIKP-VSTEL) is not equal to certain values that you don't want split to happen. It is better to maintain those shipping points in a custom table and make the check on the table rather than hard coding, so that in future it is easy to add more shipping points or remove existing ones if needed.
Also remember to assign the new data transfer routine number 9XX to all relevant item categories in VTFL for your target billing type and reference delivery type

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