How To Fix VO048 - Shipment &1 is not a preliminary leg shipment or a direct leg shipment

SAP Error Message - Details

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: VO - W&S: Rough workload forecast + picking wave

• Message number: 048

• Message text: Shipment &1 is not a preliminary leg shipment or a direct leg shipment

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message VO048 - Shipment &1 is not a preliminary leg shipment or a direct leg shipment ?

  SAP Error Message:
  VO048 Shipment &1 is not a preliminary leg shipment or a direct leg shipment
  
  
  Cause:
  This error occurs in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) when an operation or process expects the shipment to be either a preliminary leg shipment or a direct leg shipment, but the shipment in question does not meet these criteria.
  
  Preliminary leg shipment: A shipment that represents the initial leg in a multi-leg transportation process.
  Direct leg shipment: A shipment that covers a direct transportation leg without intermediate stops or legs.
  
  The system checks the shipment type or status during processing (e.g., during shipment creation, planning, or execution), and if the shipment is neither preliminary leg nor direct leg, it raises this error.
  
  When does it typically occur?
  
  During shipment planning or execution steps where the system expects a shipment to be part of a multi-leg transportation scenario.
  When trying to assign or process a shipment leg that is not correctly flagged