Determination of Data in Shipment
Documents
Use
Dangerous goods regulations are valid for a mode-of-transport category and one or more countries. You define one or more countries as a validity area in the system. This means that in SD documents, dangerous goods checks must be performed for all affected combinations of countries and mode-of-transport categories subject to dangerous goods legal requirements. The system uses this data to determine the dangerous goods master records to be checked. It derives validity areas from the countries and mode-of-transport categories from the shipping types.
The following sections describe how the country/mode-of-transport category combination is determined from the data in the shipment document. See also Enhanced Determination of Country and Mode-of-Transport Category Combinations.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites for Determining Countries
You must have created shipment stages of the type Leg.
In addition, you can define transit countries for routes, departure, and destination countries in the IMG activity Specify Transit Countries in Customizing for Dangerous Goods Management.
Prerequisites for Determining Mode-of-Transport Categories
The mode-of-transport categories are derived from the shipping types in the shipment legs.
Ensure that in Customizing for Sales and Distribution under Basic Functions → Routes → Define routes → Define shipping types:
· Each shipping type used has been assigned a mode of transport
· Or in Customizing for Dangerous Goods Management in the IMG activity Assign Relevant Mode-of-Transport Category to Modes of Transport all modes of transport have been assigned to a mode-of-transport category
Features
Determining Countries
· Determining the departure country
The system determines the departure country using the address for the starting point of the first shipment leg.
Country functions are determined for dangerous goods management. The system distinguishes between the following country functions:
– Departure country
– Transit country
– Destination country
Country functions are taken into account when checking the usage profile for the check methods. For more information, see the IMG activity Specify Usage Profiles for Dangerous Goods Check Methods in Customizing for Dangerous Goods Management.
· Determining the destination country
The system determines the destination country using the address for the destination point of the last shipment leg.
· Determining transit countries
The transit countries are determined from further points.
The entries you made in Customizing for Dangerous Goods Management in the IMG activity Specify Transit Countries are taken into account if one of the following conditions is fulfilled:
– No route has been entered in the shipment header.
– A route without route stages has been entered in the shipment header.
– A route with route stages has been entered in the shipment header, and the Consider transit country table indicator has been set in the detail screen for the route.
You have the option of assigning a route to a data record consisting of departure, destination, and transit country in the transit country table. If the system cannot determine any transit countries from the combination of route, departure country, and destination country, it determines a transit country using the combination of departure and destination country. The transit country table is first read from the shipment header together with the departure and destination countries for the leg with or without the route. If no data record is found here, the table is read from the shipment header together with the departure and destination countries for the shipment, with or without the route.
Assigning Shipping Types to Countries
The system must be able to make the exact assignment of country and shipping type from the shipment document.
Countries in Shipment Stages
The shipping type for a particular leg is assigned to the countries within the shipment leg.
Countries in the Transit Country Table
· One shipment leg
If the shipment has one shipment leg, all transit countries are assigned the shipping type for this leg.
· Several shipment legs
If the shipment has several legs, the transit countries are assigned to the shipment legs in the sequence defined in the transit country table. The countries are assigned the shipping type for the appropriate shipment leg.
Determining Mode-of-Transport Categories
The system uses the appropriate Customizing tables to determine the mode of transport and thus the mode-of-transport categories from the shipping types.
Determination of Data for Dangerous Goods Checks
EDI Processing for Dangerous Goods Data