Transportation (LE-TRA) SAP AG
Shipment Types
18 April 2001
– Route determination resulting in the Hamburg-to-New York route may have already
been carried out in the delivery. If you want to copy this route automatically into the
main leg shipment, you can specify in Customizing that routes must be copied into
the shipment document. Copying starts as soon as you set the Planned status in the
shipment document.(Note that the route in the deliveries must be unique.) At the
same time, the service agent can also be copied automatically from the delivery
provided you have made the appropriate settings in Customizing and that the same
service agent has been assigned to the deliveries.
When the deliveries were created, they were given transportation planning status A,
meaning they were ready for transportation planning. Now, after creating the main leg
shipment, these deliveries have transportation planning status B, meaning that they have
been partially planned (since a main leg shipment needs preliminary and possibly
subsequent legs).
2. Create preliminary legs
The preliminary leg shipments that are used to send the goods from shipping points 0001
and 0002 to the ship in Hamburg can be organized much faster than the ship itself, which
is why they are planned at this time. You must now combine all deliveries in the main leg
shipment into one or more preliminary leg shipments. You can do this in the Create
Shipment transaction.
To do this, you must select all deliveries in the main leg shipment. The transportation
planning status of the delivery may be helpful in determining which deliveries are in the
main leg shipment since their status is now set to B instead of A. Of course, this is not
sufficient as a single selection criterion. He can enter further selection criteria that are
used during delivery selection for the main leg. This may be impractical since you may
not now what the selection criteria were or too many deliveries may be selected.
Therefore, it is better to specify the shipment number of the corresponding main leg
shipment in the Reference to line when selecting deliveries. If you do not know the
number, press F4 and a selection screen will appear. In this case, a further selection
screen for shipment number selection appears. On this screen, you can specify the
person who created the shipment document, the point of departure, and the date in order
to determine the number of the main leg shipment.
You create shipments using the worklist you defined. If each delivery corresponds to
exactly one truckload, the planner can call up the function Edit ® Automatic planning ®
One dlv. one shipment, which creates a separate shipment for each delivery.
You should use the following settings:
– Set the leg indicator to preliminary leg.
– Set the leg determination type to 1 (leg determination according to pick-up sequence
and itinerary).
– Do not copy the route from the delivery. It may be a good idea to copy the service
agent.
When the Planned status is set, leg determination begins, but the route is not copied
from the deliveries. It will determine the pick-up sequence. In addition, the system
suggests Hamburg as destination since the deliveries are part of a main leg shipment
that runs from Hamburg to New York.