Consolidation
Use
During consolidation, the system automatically combines order items, delivery items, or order schedule lines into
freight units.The system uses freight units to simulate the deliveries that are created automatically in the ERP system for the orders for which the system has created planned shipments during planning in the
Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling
(
TP/VS
) component.
The system automatically executes consolidation when the following functions are called:
Prerequisites
You have defined consolidation strategies .
Features
The system tries to consolidate the items or schedule lines. Here the system checks if the following prerequisites are met:
The start and destination locations of all items or schedule lines are the same.
All the items or schedule lines are compatible (see Definition of Compatibilities ).
The total quantity does not exceed the split quantity(if defined).
The requested delivery dates/times and material availability dates/times of all items or schedule lines are the same.
The split rule is the same for all items or schedule lines (if defined).
The transportation group is the same for all items or schedule lines.
If some of the prerequisites are not met, the system consolidates the items or schedule lines so that all prerequisites are met within a group, in other words, a freight unit.