Transfer of Planned Shipments to SAP R/3

Purpose

When you have completed planning in the component Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS) , you transfer your planned shipments to SAP R/3 for transportation execution and delivery processing.

Prerequisites

See TP/VS-Specific Customizing Settings in SAP APO .

Process Flow

  1. To create a shipment in SAP R/3, a delivery must already exist. This means that before you can transfer the planned shipments created in TP/VS to SAP R/3 you must first generate the deliveries in SAP R/3 . You trigger the generation of deliveries in SAP R/3 within TP/VS . Then deliveries are automatically generated in SAP R/3 for the orders for which you have created planned shipments in TP/VS .

    If you want to restrict the orders for which you want to generate deliveries in SAP R/3 according to particular criteria, for example, locations, specify an optimization profile. We recommend selecting an optimization profile in particular if you have several planners with individual tasks, that is, with different optimization profiles. To avoid locking problems during transfer of data, you must define the optimization profiles without any overlaps.

  2. In TP/VS you trigger an automatic check of the delivery generation in SAP R/3 . Here the system checks if all the orders for which you have created planned shipments in TP/VS have been converted into deliveries. If all the deliveries are there, the system automatically releases the planned shipments for transfer to SAP R/3 .

  3. You transfer the planned shipments to SAP R/3 either interactively or in the background. The shipments are created automatically in SAP R/3 . If you want to restrict the planned shipments to be transferred, specify an optimization profile.

    The follow options are available for calling the interactive transfer in TP/VS :

    • Choose Start of the navigation path Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling Next navigation step Environment Next navigation step OLTP Interface Next navigation step Transfer Orders to Delivery Generation End of the navigation path from the SAP Easy Access screen. Afterwards choose Check Release of Planned Shipments and then Transmit Planned Shipments to OLTP System .

      In the planning view , choose Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step OLTP Generation of Deliveries. End of the navigation path Afterwards choose Check Re lease of Planned Shipments and then Transfer Planned Shipments to OLTP.

      Interactive planning offers you the advantage of providing an overview of the orders for which deliveries are to be generated in SAP R/3 and of being able to restrict them. Moreover, you also gain on overview of the planned shipments to be transferred and can restrict them.

      To call background processing, choose Start of the navigation path Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling Next navigation step Environment Next navigation step OLTP Interface Next navigation step Mass Processing Interface Next navigation step Schedule Delivery Generation End of the navigation path from the SAP Easy Access screen. Afterwards choose Check Release of Planned Shipments and then Transfer Planned Shipments to OLTP.