In SAP S/4HANA Sales, the default delivery type for an outbound delivery is determined directly from the configuration of the sales document type used in the preceding sales order. Within the customizing settings for a specific sales document type (e.g., 'OR' for a standard order), there is a dedicated field to specify the proposed delivery type (e.g., 'LF'). When a delivery is created with reference to that sales order, the system automatically proposes this pre-assigned delivery type, ensuring consistency in the sales and logistics process flow.

A. Sales order item category: This determines the delivery item category and delivery relevance for an item, not the header-level delivery document type.

B. Shipping point: The shipping point is a key organizational unit for delivery processing but does not determine the delivery document type itself.

C. Shipping conditions: This is a parameter used to determine the shipping point in the sales order, not the delivery type.

1. SAP S/4HANA Help Portal - Sales Document Types: The official documentation for defining sales document types explicitly states that the sales document type controls key aspects of the sales process

including the proposed delivery type. In the configuration transaction VOV8 (Define Sales Document Types)

the "Delivery type" field (VTVAK-LIFAR) is located in the "Shipping" section

directly linking the sales document type to a default delivery type. (Source: SAP S/4HANA 2023 Product Assistance

Sales -> Sales and Distribution (SD) -> Basic Functions and Master Data in SD Processing -> Sales Document Types).

2. SAP S/4HANA Learning Journey - TS462: In the course materials for "SAP S/4HANA Sales 2023

" the unit on "Controlling Sales Documents" details the configuration of sales document types. It highlights that the sales document type is the central control object for a sales transaction and specifies the default delivery type for subsequent logistics documents. (Source: SAP Learning Hub

Course TS462

Unit: "Sales Documents").