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Shipping and transportation overview

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Shipping and transportation overview

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- [Instructor] Once sales have been made, goods must be delivered to customers. The shipping and transportation area of SAP deals with picking, packing, shipping, and issuing goods to a customer. Let's look at how the process works in the system. The shipping process starts with the creation of the outbound delivery for the order. In this step, the shipping point, or the physical location where this order will be sent from, is determined. Then, a delivery check is performed. This check references the order, the customer, and the current stock of materials to see whether the delivery is possible. This delivery document also reads all the physical material master data to determine the weight and the dimensions of the shipment. Finally, the delivery route is determined. The second step in the process is referred to as picking. Picking is the physical process of taking goods from storage and moving them to a staging area to be packed. Picking requests refer to delivery documents to…

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