Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS)
Purpose
You use the component
Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS)
to plan and optimize shipments for orders (sales orders, purchase orders, returns, and stock transport orders) and deliveries. To do this you assign the orders and deliveries for which you plan shipments to vehicles. You can take various restrictions into account, for example, requested delivery dates or transportation capacities when assigning the vehicles. The result of
TP/VS
planning is the creation of planned shipments.
TP/VS
supports
various processes
such as outbound delivery, inbound delivery, and cross-docking.
You use
TP/VS
as part of
transportation management
.
Integration
Task |
System |
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Create orders and deliveries for the shipments that you want to plan |
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Execute the shipments |
SAP R/3 component
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Backorder processing |
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Evaluate the transportation management process |
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Monitor transportation execution |
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Features
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You use interactive planning to plan shipments for your orders and deliveries and to process them manually. You can use the planning view with its various planning boards for interactive planning.
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You use optimization to optimize the planning of shipments on the basis of costs and to determine optimal delivery sequences and transportation dates/times. You can also start optimization from interactive planning or schedule it in the background. You can continue to process optimization results in interactive planning.
Transportation service provider selection (TSP selection)
You use the TSP selection to assign transportation service providers to your planned shipments, either manually or automatically. In the case of automatic assignment, the system assigns the transportation service providers on the basis of a transportation service provider profile, in which you define criteria for the assignment, for example, costs or priority. You can either trigger the automatic TSP selection automatically or schedule it in the background.
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You use the release to fix your planned shipments after you have finished planning. You cannot change released planned shipments manually or in optimization. The release is also a perquisite for transportation tendering.
Transportation tendering (collaborative transportation planning)
You use transportation tendering to tender your planned shipments to external transportation service providers using EDI or the Internet. The transportation service provider can react to the tender in various ways: accept the offer, reject the offer, or suggest a deadline change.
Monitoring exceptional situations
If problems occur during planning, TSP selection, or transportation tendering, you can display and rectify them using interactive planning (see Monitoring VS Alerts ).