Transport Planning Point

The transportation planning point represents a group of employees responsible for planning transportation. A transportation planning point can cover one or many shipping points. Transportation planning points are independent of the other organizational units in Logistics.

Intransit Storage Location

You use intransit storage locations to represent product which is being transported on a vehicle as part of a shipment. By defining intransit storage locations, you can manage and control stock after it has left the loading plant and while intransit.

During loading, the product is transferred from the loading plant to the intransit storage location. From that point on and until the delivery is confirmed, the control and ownership of the material remains with the delivering plant. Subsequent transactions in TD that involve a shipment result the intransit storage location being updated. As a result, you can track product while intransit and account for gains or losses that occur between loading confirmation and delivery confirmation.

You define intransit storage locations in Customizing for Industry Solution Oil & Gas (Downstream) by choosing  TD (Transportation and Distribution) TD Bulk Shipment Intransit Stock . The definition of intransit storage locations is dependent on the plant and intransit posting group.

Use of Intransit Storage Location in Sales Cycle

In the standard document flow for sales in Sales and Distribution (SD) , stock movements take place with reference to a delivery through the generation of a goods issue document. In this case, the customer takes ownership of the stock as soon as it leaves the delivering plant, on execution of the goods issue.

To track the stock at the point after leaving the delivering plant and prior to arrival at the customer, TD introduces the concept of the intransit storage location. In this case a transfer is used to move the stock from the delivering plant to the vehicle during load confirmation. The stock loaded on the vehicle then exists in the intransit storage location. This can be shown through the Stock Overview report.

Use of Intransit Storage Location in Purchasing Cycle

In the standard purchasing process for Material Management (MM) , a purchase order is created, after which a shipping notification can be created to control the delivery of the goods. When the goods are received, a goods receipt is posted in the receiving plant.

With TD, the goods receipt is posted in the intransit storage location which represents the stock of the vehicle that is loaded. The stock remains in the intransit storage location until a transfer to the actual receiving plant is initiated during the delivery confirmation step.

Fixed Intransit Storage Locations for Shipments

You can define how the system is to determine the intransit storage location for a shipment. For example, you can determine that the system is to use the location entered in the delivery, reservation, or stock transfer order as the intransit storage location for the shipment.

You make settings for intransit posting groups in Customizing for Industry Solution Oil & Gas (Downstream) , by choosing  TD (Transportation and Distribution) TD Bulk Shipment Intransit Stock Determine intransit storage location/cost center.

Intransit Plant

When shipping large quantities of product over long distances such as in pipeline and marine shipments, it can be necessary to maintain a segregated overview of the intransit stock. This can be done by representing the vehicle as a separate plant, known as an intransit plant. It is possible to allocate all vehicles to a single intransit plant or, alternatively, to set up a separate intransit plant for each vehicle.

The intransit plant can consist of multiple storage locations for product tracking purposes as it moves along its route.

The allocation of the intransit plant is specified in the underlying documents that are assigned to the shipment.