Bulk material agreements with hundreds of line items with large quantities each are typically split into multiple delivery lots. The P.70.76 Delivery Lots screen supports the expediter in splitting up the line items into multiple item shipments by allowing him to define delivery lots so that the software can automatically create the various delivery lots.
Data can only be saved on this screen by clicking the Create Item Shipments button.
You can click the Delivery Lots button on the P.70.71 Expediter Workload screen to open the P.70.76 Delivery Lots screen.
Delivery lots are used to distribute large quantities on multiple item shipments. To define delivery lots, enter a sequence number in the Seq field, select the delivery date of the lot from the LOV in the Delivery Date field, and enter the quantity percentage that is to be delivered with this lot in the Lot Percent field. The sum of the lot percents of the delivery lots must add up to 100 percent.
In the second (Line Items) block, all agreement line items are displayed for which exactly one item shipment exists so far (that is, those that have not been split already), or for which the quantity has been increased by a change order but that have not yet been distributed using the delivery lot functionality.
New line items (with a changed quantity of 0) with an item shipment that is assigned
to an MCS, an IRC, or a release note are not available.
The Pos field displays the order line item number, the Sub field the order sub line item number, the Ident Code field the ident code of the line item, the Commodity Code field the commodity code of the line item, and the Size 1/Size 2 fields the sizes of the ident.
The total quantity for the line item is displayed in the Quantity field, with its unit in the Quantity Unit field. If an order of the type PO (Purchase Order) is approved, this quantity is populated to the corresponding requisition line item.
The Changed Quantity field displays the difference between the actual quantity and the last quantity of the line item. If the agreement is not a change order, 0 (zero) is displayed.
The agreement line items that are to be assigned to a lot must be selected by marking the Sel check box.
By default, all displayed line items are marked as selected.
All agreement line items that have been selected are considered when splitting the quantity that has been purchased according to the definition of the delivery lots.
You can click the Select All button to select all agreement line items that have been queried.
Click the Deselect All button to cancel the current selection.
The Ident Short Description field displays the ident short description, which is derived by executing the CIP procedure ident_desc (ident, nls).
When you have selected the line items and defined the delivery lots in the first block, click the Create Item Shipments button. The quantity that has been purchased is split into multiple item shipments according to the definition of the delivery lots in the upper block. The delivery date that has been provided for each lot is the promised contract date and the promised ship date of the new item shipments. The promised on site date and the predicted on site date are calculated accordingly, taking into account the routing method of the item shipment and the setting of project default ZP_EXPDATE.
If additional item shipments are created due to a changed quantity, data for the new item shipments is copied over from the last item shipment (highest pos/sub pos) that exists for the agreement line item. The resulting item shipment quantity is rounded up/down to an integer value. The last item shipment gets the remaining quantity.