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You use this report to calculate geographical coordinates for longitude and latitude for your maintained locations. Geocoordinates are essential for the distance and duration calculation between two or more locations. The system defines the geographical coordinates for a location using the following data:

  • Longitude

  • Latitude

  • Precision of the location (for example country, region, postal code, street, house number)

The report allows you to display existing geocoordinates from the database, to simulate geocoordinates that the geocoding program provides or to directly overwrite existing geocoordinates for locations. You determine geocoordinates by defining a selection from the following:

  • Location

  • Location type

  • Transportation zone

Once you have a selection, you define if you want to calculate geocoordinates for all selected locations or only for locations that do not yet have geocoordinates as follows:

  • If you want the system to calculate geocoordinates for all of your selected locations, select the All Selected Locations radio button.

    Note Note

    If you have maintained geocoding levels in Customizing, the system calculates the geocoordinates on the basis of the geocoding levels.

    End of the note.

  • If you want the system to only calculate geocoordinates for those locations that have initial geocoordinates, select the Only Locations Without Existing Geocoordinates radio button. You select the radio button for locations where no geocoordinates were calculated upon the initial maintenance, or for locations that were transmitted from a back-end system by means of the Core Interface. If you want the system to only calculate geocoordinates for those locations that have initial geocoordinates on that geocoding level, additionally select a specific geocoding level.

  • If you want to calculate geocoordinates based on a specific geocoding level, select the Only Specific Geocoding Level radio button.

Furthermore, you can execute geocoding as follows:

  • If you want the system to display existing geocoordinates from the database for selected locations, select the Show Existing Geocoordinates radio button.

  • If you want the system to simulate the geocoordinate determination, select the Simulate Geocoordinates radio button.

  • If you want the system to overwrite any existing geocoordinates with the geocoordinates that result from this calculation, select the Overwrite Geocoordinates radio button.

To use this report, you must have activated the business function Enhanced Services for Transportation Network (SCM_SCMB_TR_NETWORK).

Prerequisites

The system calculates initial geocoordinates for a location on the basis of existing address data. You must therefore ensure that you enter all relevant information (at least country) in the address data fields for your locations in the location master. You can find the location master on the SAP Easy Access screen under   SCM Basis   Master Data   Location   Location  .

You have made settings to define geocoding levels in Customizing for SCM Basis under  Master Data   Location   Geocoding   Define Geocoding Levels  .

Features

Mass Geocoding in Batch

You can use the Mass Geocoding in Batch report to schedule background processing for mass geocoding.

Activities

To access this report, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose   SCM Basis   Master Data   Location   Geocoding   Mass Geocoding  .

To access the Mass Geocoding in Batch report, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose   SCM Basis   Master Data   Location   Geocoding   Mass Geocoding in Batch  .