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 Manual Creation of Freight Units

Use

As part of a manual order split, you can split orders and outbound deliveries by combining their items into freight units and entering the corresponding quantities. You can also edit the result of an automatic order split. For more information about the order split, see Order Split Based on Freight Units .

Integration

When you call this function, the system automatically consolidates the relevant orders and outbound deliveries into freight units. For more information, see Consolidation .

Prerequisites

If you want the system to take into account split rules, you must define split rules .

Features

With this function you can:

  • Combine freight units

    You can combine multiple freight units (multiple split freight units or split freight units and split remainder) into one freight unit. This is only possible for the freight units of an order or outbound delivery. Here, the system checks compatibilities and capacities (for planned freight units).

  • Split freight units

    When you manually split freight units, split freight units that were created automatically on the basis of split rules are overwritten.

  • Change split freight units

    You can change item quantities of split freight units or can move items from one split freight unit to another. The system performs a capacity check for freight units already planned.

  • Delete split freight units

    When you delete a split freight unit, the system adds its quantity to the split remainder. If the freight unit for the split remainder is already planned, the system performs a capacity check.

  • Apply split rules

    You can apply a split rule to the selected orders and outbound deliveries by choosing the required split rule and then Set Rule .

  • Perform complete delivery

    You can perform a complete delivery for an order, an outbound delivery, or an order or outbound delivery item. In this case, the system does not perform a split.

  • Change the requested delivery date

    You can change the requested delivery date or enter a requested delivery time frame.

    Note Note

    Since the ERP system only knows the requested delivery date and not requested delivery time frames, requested delivery time frames are saved in the Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS) component only. However, for selections, for example, when the planning view is called (transaction /SAPAPO/VS01), the system only takes into account the requested delivery date from the ERP system and not the changed requested delivery date or requested delivery time frame.

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  • Create deliveries in the ERP system

  • Block freight units

    You can block freight units for the optimization.

  • Check freight units

    The system checks capacities and compatibilities for the freight units. Here the system takes into account the following:

    • Quantities of the freight unit for the split remainder cannot be changed.

    • Quantities of planned freight units can be changed.

    • Released freight units cannot be changed.

    • The total quantity of the split freight units can exceed the total quantity of the original order (overdelivery).

Activities

To manually create freight units, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Advanced Planning and Optimization Next navigation step Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling Next navigation step Planning Next navigation step Create Freight Units End of the navigation path .

Note Note

You can also execute the functions Combine Freight Units , Split Freight Units , and Delete Split Freight Units by drag and drop.

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