Use

In Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS) , you can plan for different kinds of document, for example sales orders, purchase orders, inbound and outbound deliveries. In the planning process, shipments are created in the form of the corresponding activities (load, unload, ship). This can mean that the dates/times of deliveries already sent to SAP R/3 (for example, material staging date, transportation planning date, shipping activities) no longer correspond to the new dates resulting from the loading and unloading activities in TP/VS. However, since the dates are a main prerequisite for executing shipping activities, these dates have to be updated in SAP R/3.

Prerequisites

System prerequisites: SAP R/3 4.7

You have activated the change logic for deliveries in SAP APO Customizing ( Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) → Transport Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS) → Basic Settings → Basic Settings for Vehicle Scheduling).

If you want the system to retrieve the change status of deliveries in SAP R/3 when transaction /SAPAPO/VS01 is called, you must set the Determine Change Status of Deliveries indicator in the Optimization Profile.

Features

You can update the dates/times of sales order in SAP R/3 using backorder processing .

The process is different for deliveries and inbound deliveries. If you have activated change status retrieval in the optimization profile, the system automatically determines in SAP R/3 whether or not deliveries can be changed, when you call interactive planning (transaction /SAPAPO/VS01). The system then displays the status in TP/VS. For example, a delivery that has already been picked is “not changeable”.

The system displays the status in interactive planning in the “Change Status” field for all unscheduled transportation units. You must first copy this field to the column selection in the right screen area using “Layout Settings”.

From interactive planning, you then trigger the transfer of the altered dates to SAP R/3. To do this, you select the desired shipments in the shuffler and then Synchronize Delivery Dates in the context menu. If the delivery has the status “Not modifiable”, the system issues a warning message. In this case, you cannot transfer the modified date. If a delivery has the status “changeable”, the dates are automatically transferred, compared in SAP R/3 and then sent back to TP/VS.

Even if you have not activated the determination of the change status of deliveries, you can change delivery dates in SAP R/3 from TP/VS. If a delivery has the status “not changeable”, SAP APO also displays a warning message and the modified date cannot be transferred.

You can create a history of all changes to shipments. You can call the history in two ways:

In interactive planning: Display change history symbol

Using the menu: SAP Easy Access Menu → Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS) → Environment → OLTP Interface → Display Change History for Transports

A prerequisite for displaying the change history is that you have entered a retention duration (in days) of a value not equal to zero. In SAP APO Customizing, choose Advanced Planning and Optimization ® Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling ® Basic Settings ® Basic Settings for Vehicle Scheduling