POD (Proof of Delivery) by Sales Office directly in SAP with tcode or EDI

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Hello,

We are currently evaluating the use of the LOG_MM_SIT business function for the Goods-in-Transit handling and in particular the proof of delivery process. There is already a lot of information about this on the Internet, but we still have an issue with the POD part of the process and we are now wondering how other companies have solved this.

We have the following situation

A sales office which is a intercompany site receives the order from the third party customer and orders from the mother company, which delivers directly to the customer. The mother company invoices the sales office and the sales office invoices the customer (classic third-party order processing). Now we want to use the Stock in Transit process so that the goods in transit are shown in the shipping until the sales office confirms that the shipment has arrived. They track it manually so far.

We would like to automate the confirmation of the sales office (POD). I.e. the sales office should confirm via EDI or via a transaction in SAP that the delivery has arrived, so that in further consequence, the VLPOD or VLPODQ can be executed in the sending unit. Unfortunately, the VLPOD cannot be executed directly by the intercompany site, because employees of another site are not allowed to trigger bookings in the sending unit.

Are there any ideas how we can solve this e.g. in the intercompany case via EDI?

Thanks in advance