Shipping Point in SAP SD

February 20, 2010 by CRM
Filed under: Sale and Distribution

The shipping point is the organizational unit in the SAP R/3 system responsible for shipping processing. To be able to give the customer a delivery date for a material ordered, the system must take into account all of the necessary prelimary leg time for the different processes in shipping and transportation processing.

You can specify times that you need at the shipping point for preparing and loading goods. The shipping point is normally determined for each document item in the sales document. The automatic default value can be changed manually at a later date, if you wish to have alternative shipping points.

Shipping Point Determination

Shipping points are independent organizational entities within which processing and monitoring of the deliveries as well as goods issue is carried out. A delivery is processed by one shipping point only.

Criteria for Proposing a Shipping Point

A shipping point can be determined for each order item. How the shipping point is determined depends on three factors:

The shipping conditions from the customer master record (Shipping screen)
For example, it might have been agreed with the customer that the goods are to be delivered as soon as possible.
The loading group from the material master record (Sales/Plant Data screen)
You could, for example, specify a loading group that defines that the goods must always be loaded with a crane or a forklift.
The delivering plant

Delivery by a Shipping Point

You can only carry out delivery processing for the items in a sales order for which a shipping point has been defined. If different shipping points have been assigned to the various items in a sales order, the deliveries have to be processed for each shipping point.

If you create a delivery for a sales order that contains several shipping points, the system reacts as follows:

• If you create an individual delivery, you receive a note in the log that the items with different shipping points have not been included in the delivery.
You can view the log by choosing Edit ® Log.

• If you process a delivery via the delivery due list, no note is entered in the log. When you process the delivery due list, the system only informs you of errors that occur during processing.

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