Archiving in Transportation Management

Use

You can use archiving to remove data records for documents from the database that are no longer required in Transportation Management (TM).

Integration

Transportation Management uses SAP NetWeaver data archiving functions.

Prerequisites

You have defined the following in Customizing for Transportation Management:

• Residence time

• Time unit for the residence time

For more information, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) under Goods Issue Process  Transportation Management    Shipments    Define Shipment Type or Freight Documents   Define Freight Document Type.

Features

Each document category is assigned to an archiving object that contains exact information about which data the system is to archive and how.

The following table shows document categories and the relevant archiving objects for Transportation Management:

The archiving objects provide a series of actions that you can use in the archive administration (transaction SARA) for the data records in Transportation Management.

The system must perform checks before it can archive shipments and freight documents. For example, it checks whether the residence time was exceeded. You define the residence time for each freight document type and each shipment type. The system calculates it as follows:

• Current date minus creation date

• Current date minus date of the last change

For shipments and freight documents that have not been changed, the date of the last change is the creation date.