Shipment 

Definition

A shipment represents a physical goods movement between two or more locations.

For the system to create a shipment, shipping-relevant deliveries must exist.

Use

You use Transportation Planning to group pending deliveries into shipments and then to perform the shipments.

The outbound delivery documents contain routes that the system calculates in route determination, and a transportation planning date for the delivery.

Dynamic transportation planning is responsible for grouping together outbound deliveries into shipments that have at least the same route, visit plan type and the same transportation planning date.

The following restrictions can be taken into account for a shipment in Dynamic Transportation Planning:

·        Weight

·        Volume

·        Variable capacity

·        Number of stops

·        Maximum duration

·        Loading units