Transportation Planning 

Use

Using transportation planning from the Direct Store Delivery component you plan and organize tours with the aim of grouping outstanding deliveries into shipments. You can then execute the shipments.

Transportation Planningincludes the following functions:

·        Dynamic Transportation Planning for creating shipments while taking account of, for example, visit lists, tour master data and capacity criteria.

·        Shipment for manual planning of individual shipments

·        Shipment List for a better overview and simpler processing of the shipments that have been created

The system executes transportation planning using the following data records:

·        Driver (customer master record)

·        Vehicles (equipment/vehicle master record)

·        Tours (assignment of drivers and vehicles to tour master records)

·        Visit lists

Integration

Transportation Planning is part of the Direct Store Delivery component and is integrated into the logistics process. Visit Control takes place before Transportation Planning. Vehicle Space Optimization (optional) and Route Accounting take place after Transportation Planning.

For more information, see Visit Control, Vehicle Space Optimization and Route Accounting.

Transportation Planning uses DSD-specific master data. For more information about DSD-specific master data in transportation planning, see DSD-Specific Master Data.

Features

Dynamic Transportation Planning has the following characteristics:

·        You can use Dynamic Transportation Planning to group shipments for the deliveries that require transportation and that have at least the same:

¡        Visit plan type

¡        Transportation planning point

¡        Route

·        If you have assigned a vehicle, a trailer, a driver and a second driver in the Visit List or in the Route Master, the system assigns the relevant data to the individual shipments. The system manages drivers, second drivers, vehicles and trailers in the customer master and in the equipment/vehicle master.

In the Customizing table, Activate Sales Area Processes, you have set the identically named indicator, the system checks that the deliveries assigned belong to the same sales area, and that the driver assigned has been created in this sales area.