Automatic Creation of Transfer Orders for

Outbound Delivery

Use
You can create transfer orders on the basis of outbound deliveries either
automatically or directly from the system.

Features
To create transfer orders directly or automatically for outbound deliveries, you
trigger the message type WMTA using the SD message control. Only WM-
relevant delivery items are processed. Different forms of processing result,
depending on the processing time of the message type WMTA:

Processing time

Processing time 1 , 2 and 3 (processing later)

 In this case, the message is processed either via a program in the background
(processing times 1 and 2) or manually via the transaction Messages for
delivery (processing time 3).
If the automatic TO creation indicator is set for the reference documents and a
report is carried out regularly, this is known as automatic transfer order
creation.
Processing time 4 (processing immediately)
Here message processing is initiated immediately after the delivery has been
created. Therefore, we call this immediate transfer order creation.
If you want the system to generate transfer orders in the background without
any additional activity necessary by the user, we recommend that you use
processing times 1 or 2. You can then plan to periodically execute the
report RSNAST00 (Selection Program for Issuing Output) with a
corresponding repetition time for the message type WMTA.
Note
During the creation of transfer orders we recommend that you process later, in
order to improve performance for processing time 4. If you choose an
appropriately small repetition time period when you set up the system to use
report RSNAST00, the time required to create transfer orders is nearly the
same as when using time period "4" for immediate transfer order generation.

For further information on how you set up message determination for

deliveries see the implementation guide (IMG) for Shipping under Basics
Message Control Message Determination Maintaining Message
Determination for Output Deliveries Maintaining Condition Tables .
Note
For the creation of "batch-neutral" delivery items, via the WM transfer order,
the system searches for specific batches in WM and updates the delivery.
If you create transfer orders for "batch-neutral" deliveries in the background,
depending on the batch determination strategy, the system automatically
selects the oldest batches in the warehouse first. If you prefer to do so, it is
still possible to select specific batches in WM when you create transfer orders
in the foreground.
If you create a transfer order for outbound deliveries for materials subject to
valuation and materials to be handled in batches, a valuation type that is
predefined in the outbound delivery can only be taken into consideration if you
use General batch determination.

For more information, see Batch Determination.