Object documentationGeneral Transportation Cost Profile

 

Profile that contains costs for transportation planning.

 

If you specify a general transportation cost profile in Customizing for SCM Basis under Start of the navigation path Routing Guide Next navigation step General Settings for Route Determination End of the navigation path, the system takes into account the relevant costs during static route determination (see Route Determination).

Note Note

The costs that you define in the general transportation cost profile are not actual costs, but instead they represent a theoretical value.

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Structure

You define the following costs in the general transportation cost profile:

  • Location-specific costs

    You can define the following penalty costs for each priority:

    • Earliness costs (per day) for pickup or delivery

    • Lateness costs (per day) for pickup or delivery

    A trip that has been determined by static route determination only has a premature pickup or delivery, if the request contains a start date/time or an end date/time and the pick-up or delivery date/time that has been determined lies before this requested date/time. Correspondingly, a trip only has a delayed pickup or delivery, if the request contains a start date/time or an end date/time and the pick-up or delivery date/time that has been determined lies after this requested date/time.

  • Transportation-specific costs

    These are fixed transportation costs that are incurred once for each means of transport used in the route determination run. They are independent of the actual transportation (in other words, distance, and so on).

  • Dimension-specific costs

    These are variable transportation costs per unit for the following dimensions:

    • Time

    • Distance

    • Transported quantity per distance

    These costs refer to the consumption of the dimensions of a vehicle for a request.

  • Transportation-lane-specific costs

    These are variable transportation costs per unit and means of transport.

    The values that are displayed on this tab page, for example, locations or zones as the start location or destination location, as well as means of transport costs come from the transportation lane.

    Note Note

    To define general transportation cost profiles, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path SCM Basis Next navigation step Routing Guide Next navigation step Define General Transportation Cost Profile End of the navigation path.

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