Shipping and transportation overview

- [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 …