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Maintain
Transportation Planning Point for External Systems
There is a unique mapping between a
transportation planning point and an external transportation planning system,
i.e. one planning point is assigned to exactly one planning system (whereas a
logical system can be assigned to several transportation planning
points).
In this IMG activity, control and communication
parameters are set for a transportation planning position in its linked
planning system:
- Partner category and partner name of the
planning system
- Message category for message
control
- External number range for the shipment
documents generated by the planning system
- Whether an externally generated shipment
document can be changed or not
- Shipment status, where an externally planned
shipment can be set to "not changeable" for the planning system
- Filter mode for sending status messages to the
transportation planning system
- Text ID for shipping texts
Prerequisites
- The external transportation system must be
defined as a logical system.
- You must set up an external shipment number
range for the document numbers generated by the planning system.
- If an external system is assigned to a
transportation planning point, you must maintain the partner category, partner
number, external number range and shipment changeability fields together. None
of the fields may remain blank.
- If you require that message processing for the
planning system takes place while using message control (recommended setting),
then you must configure your own message category for your planning
system.
Activities
1. Enter
partner category 'LS' and the name of the logical system of your
transportation planning system as the partner number for the transportation
planning point.
2. Enter the
required external number range.
3. Set whether
the shipment can be changed for the externally generated shipment documents.
By switching this function off you can ensure that there are no
inconsistencies between the shipment documents in the R/3 system and those in
your planning system.
4. If you wish
to use message control for the communication, enter the message categories to
be used by your planning system.
5. You can
enter the required status, if you wish to send a message to the planning
system at a certain shipment status (e.g. loading begun), to say that this
shipment can no longer be re-planned.
6. If you wish
to confirm the shipment messages in the planning system, whether they are
incorrect or successful, set the required error mode.
7. Enter up to
three text IDs for shipping texts which you would like to transmit with the
planned deliveries to your planning system (e.g. shipping
instructions).
8. Save the
settings.