EDI 856 ASN Outbound to Customer from GR document

[RaoDS]

Hi,

we are designing a third-party process flow for Our client, where we receive Customer PO into S4HANA system, and a sales order is created from which Auto PR/PO is created. PO is sent to a Third-party Vendor for shipment to customer. Vendor ships the goods and send us back a shipping confirmation. Based on the Inbound ASN from vendor we do statistical GR for the PO.

In this above scenario, we need to send an outbound ASN 856 to customer from S4 HANA system. Is there any possibility to generate the Outbound ASN 856 from GR document?

[Ryan-Crosby]

Why wouldn't you generate an outbound delivery in that scenario to instruct the vendor to ship the goods, and then record the PGI when the confirmation is sent back? At that stage you would be able to generate an 856 against the PGI action of the delivery.

[Ryan-Crosby]

Not sure how you would generate an ASN (outbound) from the recording of an inbound action like a statistical GR. Any typical 856 would be recorded against either a delivery (or possibly a shipment), and generated against that transaction data accordingly. If you were to venture into that space you would need to generate all the data associations that are required by way of a logical mapping or a custom business document of sorts. There would exist certain data points that you would be unable to reflect too... e.g. how would you record a carrier for a GR? A GR is a record of a physical movement whereas a delivery is a business document that logically organizes all activities required to get particular goods out the door.

[RaoDS]

Hi Ryan-Crosby,

Yes, i know about that process, where EDI 940 is created from Outbound delivery and sent to third-party vendor and vendor confirms the shipment with EDI 945 by which PGI will be done in SAP and can generate Outbound 856 to customer. But, In my present Project, EDI Vendor is not supporting 940 and 945 and hence we have chosen third-party process. Please let me know if we can generate Outbound 856 from GR document.