​​​​​Join Felipe and his expert guest Marcus Zahn for the fourth Part in this Transportation Management Black Belt Edition Podcast series about the Package Builder. This episode is all about the Package Type Assignment and its relevance to Package Building. We will discuss in detail how to assign Packaging to Products and how to steer the behaviour of Package Building using these assignments.

The covered topics are:

• Intro
• Package Type Assignment: Overview
• Package Type Assignment: Prerequisite for Package Building
• Package Type Assignment: Where to find it?
• Package Type Assignment: Overview of View Cluster
• Package Type Assignment: Product-BP-Location View
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location: Criteria – Product Number Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Criteria – Product Number Column: Recommendation regarding the use of wildcards
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Criteria – Product Number Column: Recommendation regarding the basic approach for the setup
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Criteria – Business Partner Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Criteria – Location Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Criteria – Equipment Group and Equipment Type Columns
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Criteria – Regarding the definition of generic entries
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Criteria – Contained Material Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Assignments: Packaging Material Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Assignments: Package Type Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Assignments – Packaging Material Column: Regarding entries with empty Packaging Material column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Assignments: Equipment Group and Type Columns
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location: Assignments for Mixed Package Building
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Assignments for Mixed Package Building: Layer Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Assignments for Mixed Package Building – Layer Column: PBO and Layer definition
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Assignments for Mixed Package Building – Dimensions: Maximum Height of Package Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Assignments for Mixed Package Building – Dimensions: Maximum Weight of Package Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Assignments for Mixed Package Building – Mixed Packaging Material and corresponding dimension columns
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location: Definition of Behaviour of assigned Packaging Material
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Definition of Behaviour of assigned Packaging Material: Ignore Limits For Full Packages Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Definition of Behaviour of assigned Packaging Material: Regarding the meaning of the dropdown values
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Definition of Behaviour of assigned Packaging Material: Packaging Material per Layer Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Definition of Behaviour of assigned Packaging Material: Separation Material Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Definition of Behaviour of assigned Packaging Material: Separation Material Mandatory Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Definition of Behaviour of assigned Packaging Material: No Mixed Packages Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Definition of Behaviour of assigned Packaging Material: Single Mixed Package
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Definition of Behaviour of assigned Packaging Material: Single Mixed Layer Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Definition of Behaviour of assigned Packaging Material: No Mixed Layers Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location – Definition of Behaviour of assigned Packaging Material: Max Number Products Column
• Package Type Assignment – Product-BP-Location: Wrap-up
• Package Type Assignment – BP-Location View: Relation to Product-BP-Location View
• Package Type Assignment – BP-Location: Product Arrangement Column
• Package Type Assignment – BP View: Definition of Exclusive Package for Customer
• Package Type Assignment: Episode Wrap-up and outlook
• Blog Series “Monday Knowledge Snippet” from Marcus

Monday Knowledge Snippet Blog Series by Marcus Zahn: https://blogs.sap.com/2013/05/21/monday-knowledge-snippet-series/

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