Maintain Materials Cumulation for Routes (SAP Library

Maintain Materials Cumulation for Routes

In order to plan shipments it is not always necessary to know all the details of the material / delivery items that are to be transported. For example, it is often irrelevant to know whether two delivery items are made up of 500 litres of red and 500 litres of green paint and sufficient to know that 1000 litres of paint need to be planned as shipment goods. Similar circumstances exist in the batch handling area where different batches of one material are divided up between several delivery items.

Delivery items can be combined together according to different criteria in order to provide a better overview and to reduce the volume of data to be transmitted.

Combining or deleting delivery items depending on how transportable they are.

Combining items with the same freight codes.

You can configure the combination (cumulation) for each combination of transportation planning point and route separately in the maintenance transaction. However they can also be configured together for one transportation planning point.

Both cumulation procedures have the following effects:

Reducing transportable materials:
Activating this function by clicking on the relevant table field affects:

the cumulation of a material's batch items in each header item

the cumulation of a material's product selections in each header item

Deletion of text and value items

Deletion of BOM items not relevant to movement.

Cumulation according to freight code:
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Maintain freight code sets and freight codes can be allocated to the combination of transportation planning point and route.

It is not possible to determine the freight code set as this has to be predefined for the transportation/route combination. In this way the freight code can be determined together with the material freight group from the material master. The items in a delivery are cumulated according to freight code, whereby the material category is only represented in the message by its freight code. The quantities are still available in weight and volume specifications but no longer as number of pieces, etc.

If both cumulation procedures are activated, the cumulation according to shipment relevant items is executed before the freight code - related cumulation.

In this IMG activity you can maintain the planning restriction with the following resources:

Maintain individual entries in material cumulation for the transportation planning point or a combination of transportation planning point and route.

Enter route areas in the table (mass transaction)

Copy route areas in the table if transportation planning point has changed (mass transaction)

Activities

Maintain material cumulation

a) Select the transportation planning point to be processed.

b) If you wish to maintain the cumulation for a route, enter the route. If you wish to maintain the cumulation for all the shipments in the transportation planning point, leave the route field blank.

c) If you wish to activate the cumulation according to freight code, enter the required freight code set. If you do not enter a freight code set, the cumulation will be deactivated.

d) If you wish to activate a shipment relevant cumulation, click on the relevant button.

Enter route areas in the table (mass transaction)
Entering route areas is appropriate if you wish to carry out the same material cumulation for several routes. In the selection screen enter a transportation planning point and the routes for which you would like to add entries in the table. For each new entry you can configure a freight code set and activate the shipment relevance. You can use a switch to select whether existing entries for the transportation planning point should remain or be overwritten.

Copy route areas with changes to transportation planning point (mass transaction)
Copying route areas is appropriate if you have several planning systems with the same material cumulation defaults and you just wish to copy the defaults. Specify the transportation planning point and the routes whose entries you would like to copy. You also need to specify to which transportation planning point the entries should be copied. You can use a switch to select whether existing entries for the transportation planning point / route should remain or be overwritten.