Merge deliveries for orders with different desired delivery dates

[Jan-Christian_Gerlach]

Hello, 

I figured I could use some help on this, because I am really stuck.

Outline: 
I think our problem is a typical one, yet, I cannot find a satisfying solution on the web. This may be related to my lack of experience in researching SAP topics. Anyways, we like many companies, we get multiple orders from the same customer that shall later on be sent from the same shipping point. It happens that production gets delayed and we cannot keep the desired delivery dates of the orders. So what usually happens is; we produce a bunch of different orders' positions, and then we ship them all at the same time within a single truck delivery. So, this becomes a single delivery note / object. Our goal is to hand our warehouse guys and the transporter a single bundled delivery note, containing all the orders and positions on it. Usually, we use VL10H to create the deliveries. But the issue is that presumably due to the different original desired delivery dates that some of the finished customer orders may have, the resulting deliveries are always split into multiple objects. We have been looking for quite some time for a way to simply make the system group the orders, solely by the customer, ship to address and shipping point, but NOT the delivery dates of the underlying orders. It has turned out to be quite a headache ^^. To this point, I can't imagine that SAP doesn't have a way to make this happen with "a little bit" of customization or so. I read about split criteria and all, but I don't know whether they can solve our problem, where to find these settings and how to correctly apply them. An additional restriction that applies to our case is that the changes should only apply to deliveries created in a specific plant "4000". Ideally, we would like to end up at a point, where we simply tick all the positions in VL10H that we can deliver, then the system creates the corresponding delivery notes ignoring the delivery dates of the orders and only grouping by the other criteria listed above. This will then produce the bundled delivery notes. Maybe we are even just using the wrong transaction or so, and there is a really simple solution to this? 

Help on this would be greatly, greatly appreciated! Thanks!