Vehicle 

Definition

A specialization of a particular means of transport. A vehicle can comprise one or more transportation units.

Use

You define vehicles in the master data for transportation. You use vehicles to group deliveries and to communicate with invoicing and Transportation Management (TM). 

If you assign transportation units to a vehicle in a fixed way, you cannot assign these transportation units to another vehicle. In this case, data that you define for the vehicle is also valid for the assigned transportation units.

The dimensions of the vehicle come from the means of transport that you assign to the vehicle, and are used as the planned size.

Integration

·        When the loading process has been completed, a status change triggers the sending of a message to TM that enables bills of lading to be created automatically (see Integration of TM with the Loading Process).

·        Before goods issue posting, you can create the current invoice via an invoice request to SAP CRM Billing (see Invoice Creation Before Goods Issue).

Example

The truck with the license plate number HSK-116 has a trailer. This means that it consists of two transportation units: The cargo area and the trailer.