Creating Transportation Chains with Collective Processing
Prerequisites
Within collective processing, you can also define that a transportation chain consisting of multiple shipment documents should be created. For example, all deliveries you select (outbound shipments, for example) are grouped together into main leg, preliminary leg and subsequent leg shipments. The selected deliveries are then processed as the system makes multiple runs through the transportation chain.
Procedure
You can define for each run which grouping criteria should be valid and what data the runs (individual shipments within the transportation chain) should contain. This data fill-in process is similar to the one that occurs when you create collective shipments. See also
All deliveries should first be packed onto a main leg shipment, which goes by rail from Frankfurt to Hannover. So, you enter a variant that contains the transportation planning point, shipment type, service agent and route for this rail shipment in the Data and options field found in the 1st run (create main leg shipments) part of the screen. Leave the Grouping criteria field blank, since all deliveries in one shipment should be grouped together. In the second run, all deliveries are distributed among the corresponding preliminary leg shipments that lead from the shipping point to the train station in Frankfurt. Create a variant that contains the shipping point as one of the grouping criteria in the Grouping criteria field. Also specify that one shipment can hold a maximum of 30 tons. Enter a variant that contains the transportation planning point, shipment type, etc. for the preliminary leg by land in the Data and options field. Then specify that leg determination should also be carried out. In the third run, subsequent legs are created in the same way as preliminary shipments.
The dates from the preliminary leg are transferred automatically to the main leg: The load finish date from the preliminary leg will be the load start date in the main leg, for example.