Delivery document type settings

[Former Member]

Hi all,

In standard SAP For LF delivery type, Default order type DL (Delivery with out sales order reference) is assigned.What is the use of this.

For delivery with out reference to sales order system will not allow us to use delivery type LF.

we only use Delivery type LO.Then why DL is assigned to this.

One more question for LO delivery type DL is assigned.Can I see DL anywhere in the delivery document?

Regards

Mano

[Former Member]

Hi Mano,

DL is Order Type Sched.Ag. and not Delivery with out sales order reference. But yes the assignment is given so as the Delivery if created without Order reference, yet a Control over the document referencing will be there only if the cycle starts with the Order.

One of the purpose which I have understood for maintaining a Order Type in Delivery is to set the default billing type against the Delivery document. As you know in the Delivery document settings you don't have the default Billing type like you have it in the Order type. So the system tries to fetch the default billing type from the Default order type maintained in the Delivery document settings.

For your Second question you cannot see the Sales document type in the Delivery document.

Regards,

Karthik

[Former Member]

Hi,

The description of DL says that it is Delivery without order.How do you say that its scheduling agreement.Plz clarify

Regards

Mano

[marcin_milczynski]

Hi,

In standard SAP the description is following in ECC 6.0:

DL Order Type Sched.Ag.

Maybe in previous versions it was a little bit different or somebody changed it.

Regards,

Marcin

[Former Member]

Hi,

You are right I just checked in ECC 6.I am convinced but still DL type can be used for LO.Because LO is delivery without reference.

But what is the idea of using DL for LF.Because we cant create delivery without reference to order through LF delivery type right.

Plz clarify

Reagrds

Mano

[Former Member]

Hello Mano,

It is not the case that you cannot use LO for Delivery with Order reference or LF without Order Reference.

It is because it has been set in the Delivery document parameter setting that it requires an Order Reference or not .

You can change it if you want by making a copy of the Document type so that Standard is maintained.

For your query,SAP has probably maintained most of the Delivery documents with Default Order as DL.

Because if you create a delivery with or without reference the items declared in the Delivery document should have some reference document before it.

This is the F1 help which clearly states the use of declaring the Order type

Default order type for deliveries without reference to order

The default for a "pseudo" order type for deliveries or delivery items that do not refer to an existing order.

Use

When you create delivery documents that do not refer to existing orders, you must provide some of the control criteria that are normally copied from a sales document header into the delivery document.

Example

A delivery document, for example, needs information about which item types need to be defined.

Procedure

You can define a pseudo order type in Table TVAK. When you create a delivery that does not refer to an existing order, the system automatically uses the pseudo order type.

Hope it is clear to you now.

Regards,

Karthik

[Former Member]

Hi Karthick,

I understood all these logic.But my question is we are not going to use LF or our own copy of LF type for order without reference, Are we?

In this case why we should unnecessaryly assign DL to LF.I am able to remove DL in the LF type settings.What changes that will reflect when i create a delivery

Reagrds

Mano

[Former Member]

Mano,

My recommendation: As Order types LF & LO are SAP delivered order types, I would leave them as they are (with default order DL) to prevent any future conflicts with upgrades & support packs.

SAP only uses the default order type when you do not have anything to reference. in the event that you use delivery type LF - you are copying from a sales order and therefore, the system ignores whatever setting you have in the "default order type"

So, for LF, it is OK to keep DL assigned as SAP will ignore it anyway

For LO, you may want to keep DL assignment for the "pseudo" control it provides.

Edited by: John Hawkins on Jan 15, 2009 2:59 PM

[Former Member]

Mano,

You are correct, Default Order type DL is assigned to both Delivery types LF & LO in standard SAP - However

DL = "Order Type Scheduling Agreement", not for "Delivery with out sales order reference"

In any regards, I believe that because LF is "With Reference to Order", then the copy control from the Sales Order takes presidence over this default order type - which is used as a "pseudo" order type when creating without reference.

You need to have something in the "Default Order Type" field for Delivery type LO to provide a "pseudo" order type for deliveries without reference - to provide some of the control that is normally copied from the reference document (Sales Order). sap will automatically use a "pseudo" order type any time you create a delivery without reference (Tcode VL01NO).

I hope this helps.

[marcin_milczynski]

The order type DL is used in case of creation a delivery without reference to order (VL01n, create w/o reference). It is used to determine the fields which come normally from the order when you create delivery without the reference to an order. If you don't create/want to block creation of delivery LF without reference to an order you can make the field empty in delivery type customizing and then when you try to create delivery without reference to an order you will get an error.

I hope this helped you.

Regards,

Marcin