Route Determination on the User Interface 

Use

In addition to the functions described in Route Determination in the Delivery and Special Features for Outbound Delivery Objects (outbound delivery), further functions are available on the user interface for the outbound delivery order and the outbound delivery.

Features

Redetermination of Routes

You can execute route determination for one or more deliveries with the Redetermine pushbutton. For example, you can use an earlier or a later route. If you change your route master data, you can also execute route determination with the new master data using this function.

●     With the Departure Date/Time, Lead Time, and Next Trip fields, you have the option of determining that route determination carries out forward scheduling from a start date/time that is different from the default start date/time.

If you use the Departure Date/Time field, route determination attempts to find a route or trip with this date and time.

If you use the Lead Time field, route determination attempts to find a route or trip that occurs after the current Departure from Yard date/time plus the lead time. This is specified in hours.

If you use the Next Trip field, route determination attempts to find a route or trip that occurs (in relation to route or trip) directly after the current Departure from Yard date/time.

Note that you can only ever use one of these fields.

Delivery processing saves the information (for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) to use a changed departure date/time) to the delivery in the planned goods issue date/time of the items. A route redetermination also uses this date/time.

●     You can use the Aggregation field to include the total weight of the selected deliveries in route determination. This means that route determination also determines routes that it does not automatically find, for example, because the weight of the individual deliveries is too low.

●     You can use the Set Route to Determined Automatically indicator if route determination is to address routes specified manually or routes specified by an external system in the same way as it addresses routes that it automatically determines. If delivery processing executes a route redetermination, route determination uses the route that was found automatically.

If you set this indicator, route determination also sets the determination indicator of the route to Determined Automatically.

Assigning Routes

With the Assign pushbutton, you can assign a route to one or more deliveries. Route determination sets the determination indicator of the route to Manual.

As described above, you can use the Departure Date/Time, Lead Time, Next Trip,and Aggregation fields, and the Set Route to Determined Automatically indicator.

Checking Routes

You can execute a route redetermination with the Check or Check (Aggregated) pushbutton. With this, you check whether route determination has found a result for the delivery. You also check whether the route determination data agrees with the data in the delivery. If you have made changes to the route master data, you can check, for example, whether the routes are still valid.

Delivery processing issues a warning message if the route that was found deviates from the route contained in the delivery. In the transportation cross-docking process (TCD process), delivery processing also issues a warning message if the route that was found contains TCD information that the delivery does not contain.

For the route check, route determination uses the total weight and total volume of all selected deliveries in the aggregated check.

Manually Releasing Routes

You can manually release a route with the Release pushbutton.  You can also manually approve a route with the status Found Invalid. With this, you can work with deliveries that contain an invalid route, for example, if, in an exceptional situation, you want to use a route that is actually invalid for a delivery. Delivery processing blocks a delivery with an invalid route. Then you cannot post the goods issue for this delivery, for example.

If you manually approve a route, route determination changes the status of the route to Manually Released.

After a manual approval, delivery processing does not execute automatic route determination, since the invalid route would lead to another blocked delivery.

You can cancel a manual route approval. You either set the determination indicator to Initial or Value Calculated by System, or you use the Redetermine pushbutton for route redetermination.

You can only manually approve a route if the route status is Found Invalid. If you want to enter a route manually, the determination indicator must not be Value Calculated by System.

If you cannot use a route for a delivery because of dangerous goods data, you can force delivery processing to use this invalid route for a delivery using manual route approval.  You can use the BAdI default implementation of the Business Add-In (BAdI) /SCWM/EX_DLV_ACT_ROUTE_RELEASE to execute a general check as to whether a user is authorized to manually approve routes. You can implement further checks in the BAdI.

Route determination automatically uses dependent data from a valid route determination (see Data Use in Route Determination). If you manually enter a route that is invalid for the delivery or has no master record, route determination can no longer automatically determine this data.  Route determination sets this data to initial.  You can manually set this data or use the BAdI /SCWM/EX_DLV_ACT_ROUTE_RELEASE.