This component is used under Advanced Planning and Optimization to plan and execute complete company transportation process. This is managed using Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling component

In SAP R/3 system, all sales orders, purchase orders, returns, and deliveries that you create, are transferred to APO using Core Interface. The result of TP/VS planning are planned shipments that have to be transferred to R/# system. The Logistic Execution component is used for execution of transportation.

To perform shipment monitoring, you can use Event management.

To perform transportation process, you have to perform −

Integration of master data

You create master data that is required for transportation management in SAP R/3 and this data is transferred to APO using Core Interface. Following master data can be created in R/3 system −

Customer
Material
Vendor

You have to define an address and this address is used by Advanced Planning and Optimization system for transportation.

To use shipping points as source locations in TP/VS, you have to set Use Shipping Point as Source Location indicator in Customizing for TP/VS as shown below −

Navigate to Production → DRP Distribution Resource Planning → Basic Settings → Basic Settings for Vehicle Scheduling.

Integration of Transaction data

You can also create transaction data for transportation management like- orders in R/# system and this can be moved to APO system using Core interface.

You can create a standard order in SAP Easy access, Logistics → Sales and Distribution → Sales → Order → Create

In the next screen, you have to enter the following fields −

Order Type
Sales Organization
Distribution Channel
Division, etc.

Custom Settings in APO

For Transportation management, you have to make TP/VS customizing settings in APO system.

Defining publishing-types shipment and delivery

You need to maintain publishing-types shipment and delivery.

To define this, navigate to Integration with SAP Components → Integration of SAP SCM and SAP APO → Basic Settings for Data Transfer → Publication → Maintain Distribution Definition.

To define means of transport system, navigate to master data → Transportation Lane → Maintain means of transport.

To define availability and item of standard optimizers for SAP APO and the access to these optimizers, navigate to Basic settings → Optimization → Basic Functions → Maintain master data for optimization server.

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