Transport Load Building (SAP Library - SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO))

Transport Load Building

Purpose

The primary purpose of the Transport Load Builder (TLB) is to use the results of the deployment run (single product transport recommendations) to create multi-product transport orders while ensuring that:

Transportation vehicles are filled to maximum capacity
No transportation vehicle is dispatched that is not filled to minimum capacity

The minimum values for capacity (cubic volume and weight) and pallets to build a load and the maximum amount of product per load is defined in the TLB profile. The system checks the planned transport orders against these minimum and maximum values. If the planned transport orders do not meet either the minimum or maximum requirements, the system activates an alert.

The Transport Load Builder (TLB) combines planned stock transport orders to form feasible transport units. If the planned transport order is for a VMI customer, then the result is processed as sales orders in the system. Otherwise the result is a company-internal transport order. You can specify additional conditions for VMI customers.

There is no tracking of resource usage and no consideration of product-specific constraints (for example, flavor migration) or special transport requirements (for example, package orientation or refrigeration).

To run interactive TLB, choose Supply Network Planning ® Planning ® Transport Load Builder (TLB) from the SAP Easy Access Menu, or choose on the Interactive Supply Network Planning desktop). You also can run TLB in the background (from the SAP APO Easy Access Menu, choose Supply Network Planning ® Planning ® Supply Network Planning in the Background ® Transport Load Builder (TLB).

Prerequisites

Assign a transportation planner to the appropriate lanes.

Assign a TLB profile to the transportation lane in the SCE.

Run Deployment.

Process Flow

The following diagram depicts the TLB cycle.