When business requirements dictate that shipment status or date calculations must bypass standard SAP protocols in favor of custom business rules, you should utilize the functional exit EXIT_SAPLV56F_011 . This exit provides the necessary hook to intercept shipment processing and inject your own logic to manipulate header or stage data before the document is finalized. Some of the sample requirements : Stage Level: Automatically update the shipment 'Planning' start and end dates at the stage level based on new delivery dates. Header Level: Once the shipment end date for the final stage is determined, that value must propagate to and update the shipment header.
This blog will give an overview of all standard functionalities provided by SAP from Logistics perspective which we might have overlooked during our regular practise.