General Transportation Cost Profile 

Definition

Profile that contains costs for transportation planning.

Use

If you specify a general transportation cost profile in Customizing for SCM Basis under Routing Guide ® General Settings for Route Determination, the system takes into account the relevant costs during static route determination.

The costs that you define in the general transportation cost profile are not actual costs, but instead they represent a theoretical value.

Structure

You define the following costs in the general transportation cost profile:

●      Location-specific costs

You can define the following penalty costs for each priority:

○       Earliness costs (per day) for pickup or delivery

○       Lateness costs (per day) for pickup or delivery

A trip that has been determined by static route determination only has a premature pickup or delivery, if the request contains a start date/time or an end date/time and the pick-up or delivery date/time that has been determined lies before this requested date/time. Correspondingly, a trip only has a delayed pickup or delivery, if the request contains a start date/time or an end date/time and the pick-up or delivery date/time that has been determined lies after this requested date/time.

●      Transportation-specific costs

These are fixed transportation costs that are incurred once for each means of transport used in the route determination run. They are independent of the actual transportation (in other words, distance, and so on).

●      Dimension-specific costs

These are variable transportation costs per unit for the following dimensions:

○       Time

○       Distance

○       Transported quantity per distance

These costs refer to the consumption of the dimensions of a vehicle for a request.

●      Transportation-lane-specific costs

These are variable transportation costs per unit and means of transport.

The values that are displayed on this tab page, for example, locations or zones as the start location or destination location, as well as means of transport costs come from the transportation lane.

To define general transportation cost profiles, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose SCM Basis ® Routing Guide  ® General Transportation Cost Profile.