SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3368190 - Time Zone of Shipment Date and Delivery Date in Outbound Delivery

Symptom

In outbound delivery, you find that the time zones between shipment date and delivery date are different. You want to know how system considers time zone for the two fields.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Outbound Logistics Work Center.
  2. Navigate to Outbound Deliveries View.
  3. Search for outbound delivery XXX.
  4. Edit it and you find that the time zones between shipment date and delivery date are different.

Resolution

For Shipment Date,  it considers the time zone of the Site Calendar.

For Delivery Date, it considers the time zone of Ship-to-location, instead of the time zone which set by user in account.

Moreover, The Delivery Date is stored in the backend in UTC.  In reports, data sources provided dates in UTC format due to this you are seeing UTC data instead of your time format.

See Also

  1. 2585738 - Outbound Deliveries Displayed Under the Previous day's Delivery Date
  2. 2768328 - The Calculation of Shipment and Execution Start Dates

Keywords

Outbound Delivery, Time Zone, Shipment Date, Delivery Date, Report. , KBA , AP-ODP-OD , Outbound Delivery , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions