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18-6-2015SAP Transportation Management

Features of TransportationThese transportation functions can handle planning and processing for both inbound and outbound shipments. You can control and monitor the entire transportation process from the planning stage to goods issue at your shipping point (for outbound shipments) or vendor location (for inbound shipments), through to goods receipt at the customer location or your plant.Other available functions include: shipment costs calculation and settlement with the service agent, transfer to accounting, credit memo creation and invoice verification.Incoming shipments in Materials Management based on purchase orders and shipping notificationsOutbound shipments in Sales and Distribution based on sales orders and deliveries

Configuration For Transportation ContinuedDefine shipment typesDetermine Leg:1-Legs determined according to departure point & itinerary In above case which delivery is unloaded last that will be loaded first.2 Preliminary leg loading point and subsequent leg for ship to party

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3.3) Single shipment with multi mode of transport

Delivering the goods to single customer with multi mode of transport, In this process we have 3 leg indicators as follows.Preliminary leg (truck)Main leg (Vessel)Subsequent leg (Rail)

3.4) Multi shipment with multi mode of transportGrouping deliverys which is belongs to different customers in to single shipment & delivering the goods to customers with multi mode of transport

Determine Leg:

4- Like leg determination type 1, but the shipping type for preliminary leg and subsequent leg is taken into consideration.If your client is responsible shipment up to specific leg

Configuration For Transportation ContinuedDefine & assign activity profilesYou can use activity profiles to define which actions are to be performed once a shipment reaches a particular statusEX: once the shipment reaches completion status, the system should perform the goods issue activity for each of the constituent delivery documents.Define & assign tariff zones (T_76)Tariff zones helps to maintain freight condition records for shipmentShipment cost type & Item category's

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