Processing a Route Schedule (SAP Library

Processing a Route Schedule

Implementation Options

Wholesale trade customers and stores can receive goods at regular intervals. These delivery rhythms have an influence on the workload in the warehouse. To help delivery planning, the route schedule serves as a tool for planning regular, repetitive customer deliveries on a particular route. At the time of planning, potential deliveries that have not yet been created are grouped in the route schedule. When the deliveries are created, the system can automatically determine a route schedule and assign it to the delivery. All deliveries with the same route schedule and the same date can be processed together in the shipping point. All these deliveries leave the shipping point together at a particular time. They are distributed along the same geographical route.

Example

· Deliveries for route schedule MO10H leave the shipping on Mondays at 10:00 in the direction of Philadelphia.

· Deliveries for route schedule MO10M leave the shipping point on Mondays at 10:00 in the direction of Boston.

· Deliveries for route schedule MO10S leave the shipping point on Mondays at 10:00 in the direction of New York.

You can print picking lists for all deliveries that belong to route schedules MO10H - MO10S together.

Prerequisites

If you want to define route schedules, you must perform the following tasks:

- Activate the route determination

- Activate the delivery scheduling

- Activate the route schedule for your shipping point and make the following settings:

Transaction	Activity
Delivery	Route schedule determination for delivery type
Sales order	Route schedule determination for sales document type
Stock transfer order	Route schedule determination for delivery type Set delivering plant and order type

Maintenance of the itinerary should be uniform for all the route schedules used. To ensure exact planning, maintain the itinerary for all the route schedules. If rough planning is sufficient in this case, you do not need to maintain the itinerary for a route schedule.

If you do not define any goods accepted times in the customer master for the unloading points of the ship-to party, the system assumes that the goods acceptance is possible at any time. The system determines the delivery time from the departure time in the route schedule plus the required traveling time to the ship-to party, as set in the itinerary (specific move time). This delivery time must be within the goods acceptance time of the unloading point of the ship-to party. If not, the respective route schedule is not determined during delivery creation.

For more information on route schedules, refer to the Implementation Guide (IMG) under Route Schedules.

Process Flow

Select the shipping point you are working for and enter the number of the route schedule.

Enter the data that defines the route schedule more exactly:

- Description of the route schedule

- Route

- Departure day (weekday)

- Departure time

You define the route schedule determination. When you create the delivery, the system can determine a route schedule on the basis of the following data:

- Shipping point

- Ship-to party

- Unloading point (if available)

- Shipping condition

- Transportation group

- (Optional) year/period

You enter this data (with the exception of the shipping point already entered in step 1).

You decide whether or not you wish to define the itinerary for this route schedule.
(Optional) You enter the itinerary and, if required, also the travelling time.

See also:

Creating a Route Schedule.