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

The APO System includes the tactical and operative planning areas of SAP Transportation Management, which is enhanced by the SAP Logistics Execution Systems (LES) area for transportation.

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

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