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The Shipment transaction represents a shipment-level document that consolidates one or more outbound or inbound deliveries into a single transportation unit, complete with defined routes, stages, carrier information, and planned dates. Rather than focusing on individual deliveries, the Shipment document enables end-to-end communication about the full shipment, forming a core part of transportation integration in SAP environments.

The Shipment message consolidates deliveries into a single transportation unit, enabling integration with external systems for coordinated planning, execution, and tracking.

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- **Message Type**: MPC\_SHIPMENT
- **X12 Format**: SHIPMENT
- **Transform Names**: 
    - B2B\_X12\_856\_Shipment\_OB\_V1
 
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