Vehicle Scheduling is part of the component Transportation Planning and Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS). This component enables the transportation planner to optimally use available capacities of trucks, trains, ships, and airplanes with the goals of more efficiently planning loading capacities and lowering costs, since most customers nowadays depend completely on external transportation companies for optimum transportation (which means deliveries that are on time and cost saving).

Within SAP Transportation Management, the component TP/VS includes the tactical and operative planning area, which is enhanced for transportation by SAP components of the Logistics Execution Systems (LES) area. In this way, deliveries and shipments are planned in transportation planning. After they are released from TP/VS, automatic deliveries and shipments can be created in LES. For this transferred data, make settings in APO Customizing by choosing Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) ® Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS) ® Interfaces.

In the APO System, the areas TP/VS, Global ATP and Production Planning are tightly integrated.

The TP/VS component contains the following functions:

• Transportation planning and transportation consolidation
• Vehicle scheduling and route determination in a dynamic environment
• Transportation mode and selection of carrier
• Multi-pick and multi-drop functions
• Management by exception

The Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling component consists of the following parts: