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Define Routes

In the following IMG activities, you define your routes. The route determines the itinerary and the means of transport in shipping, and influences transportation scheduling. For example, if the route includes rail transport, transportation scheduling may have to include the time required to reserve freight carriages.

Using routes, you can combine sales order items according to shipping criteria.

The system determines routes automatically for a sales order item and can repeat the procedure for a delivery (see section Route determination).

In order to define routes, proceed as follows:

• Define the modes of transport.

• Define the shipping types.

• Define the transportation connection points and maintain the relevant data on the detail screen.

• Define the routes and route stages.

You can also maintain the route stages for several stages.

Note for transport interface

The transport includes all objects maintained in Customizing for controlling route definition.

In order to trigger transport, you select all entries to be transported and choose Table view -> Transport .

You can check the entries and copy or delete them in the transport request.

Save your entries.