Simulation of Route Determination 
Use
You can use this report to manually simulate route determination in the routing guide. As a basis for the simulation, you choose a strategy and parameter values. All the output tables for the routing guide such as trips, legs, and dangerous goods information are displayed as the result.
Prerequisites
See Route Determination.
Features
Selection
Strategies
When you choose the Route Information strategy, the system simply determines a trip for your location data. In the case of the other strategies, the system also performs scheduling, a dangerous goods check, a cost calculation and, on the basis of the strategy chosen, it selects and arranges the trips determined.
Request data
To simulate route determination, you specify the start location and the destination location. If you have already defined a location with an address, you only have to specify the location name. Otherwise, you specify the location using your address data.
Furthermore, specify a shipment direction (selection parameter). You use the shipment direction to specify if it is an outbound delivery process or an inbound delivery process.
Selection parameters
If the strategy you have chosen includes scheduling, you have specified the following:
● Start date/start time if you have chosen forward scheduling
● End date/end time if you have chosen backward scheduling
If in the route definition you have defined the lead time of the routes depending on the request types, you can take into account the lock time. To do this, specify the request type and the request date/time if this differs from the current date/time. For more information about scheduling, see Results of Scheduling.
You optionally enter the following for calculating penalty costs for premature or delayed pickup or delivery:
● Start date/start time if you have chosen backward scheduling
● End date/end time if you have chosen forward scheduling
Restrictions
The following table shows how to influence the determination of trips:
|
Specify Value |
Exclude Value |
Route |
The system only returns a trip if it is based on this route. |
The system only returns a trip if it is based on a different route. |
Shipping condition |
The system only returns a trip if you have defined this shipping condition for the underlying route (see Route). |
Not possible |
Means of transport |
The system only returns a trip if you have assigned this means of transport to the leg whose destination location is the customer (outbound delivery process) or whose start location is the supplier (inbound delivery process). |
The system only returns a trip if you have not assigned this means of transport to the leg whose destination location is the customer (outbound delivery process) or whose start location is the supplier (inbound delivery process). |
Carrier |
The system only returns a trip if you have assigned this carrier to the leg whose destination location is the customer (outbound delivery process) or whose start location is the supplier (inbound delivery process). |
The system only returns a trip if you have not assigned this carrier to the leg whose destination location is the customer (outbound delivery process) or whose start location is the supplier (inbound delivery process). |
Products
The system takes into account your input about the products to be transported in the following way:
● If your chosen strategy includes a dangerous goods check, the system only displays a trip as the result if the geographical course of the trip agrees with the dangerous goods relevance of the products.
● If you have defined a weight interval for the single request for a route, the system only returns a trip based on this route if the total weight of the request based on the product master lies in this interval.
● If you have defined a volume interval for the single request for a route, the system only returns a trip based on this route if the total volume of the request that is based on the product master lies in this interval.
● If you have defined maximum vales for length, width, and height for the route, the system only displays a trip based on this route as the result of route determination if the values for length, width, and height defined in the product master do not exceed these maximum values.
Control parameters
You can use the following control parameters to influence the output of system messages in the results area Log:
● Max. problem class for messages
The system only displays messages that are assigned either to the problem class you have chosen or to a higher one (filter).
If you activate buffering, the system can minimize the response times for multiple requests. As a prerequisite, you must not leave the transaction in between requests.
Result
Results: Trip (Header Level)
Results |
Comment |
Rank |
The system arranges the trips in accordance with the total costs calculated, whereby the completeness of the costs is the sort criterion. |
Route |
The system specifies the underlying route of the trip that is determined. Within cross-docking, this is the cross-docking route that comprises the entire trip. |
Next cross-docking location |
Within cross-docking, the system displays the first location where transshipment is to occur according to the cross-docking route definition. |
Costs |
The total costs consist of transportation costs and penalty costs. Transportation costs include fixed costs as well as variable costs that are dependent on distance, duration, and/or weight. Both types of cost can be dependent on the choice of means of transport and carrier. Penalty costs include costs for premature delivery, premature pickup, delayed delivery, and delayed pickup. |
Times for lock time, departure, and arrival of the trip |
See Scheduling |
GTS geography group |
The system specifies the GTS geography group of the route upon which the trip that is determined is based. |
Results: Legs of a Trip (Item Level)
Results |
Comment |
Leg number |
The system arranges the legs of a trip in the shipment direction. |
Route |
Within cross-docking, the system specifies the route of the leg on which the leg of the trip is based. |
Start location, destination location, and stops |
The value in the Start Location of Leg field is the start location of the request or the loading location of a subsequent leg. The value in the Destination Location of Leg field is the destination location of the request or the unloading location of a previous leg. Along with the start location and destination location of the leg, the stops also include a list of locations served along the leg that you have selected. |
Means of transport, carrier, and assignments |
The system specifies the means of transport and, optionally, a carrier for the leg of the route upon which the leg in the trip that has been determined is based. If more than one carrier is assigned to this means of transport for the leg, the system displays the relevant combinations as assignments of the leg that you have selected (see Route). |
Costs |
The total costs or the penalty costs for the trip are the sum of the total costs or penalty costs for all legs in the trip. |
Times for departure and arrival |
See Scheduling |
Durations for transshipment and transportation |
See Scheduling |
Additional Results
Results |
Comment |
Dangerous goods information |
The system specifies the result of the dangerous goods check for the products that you have specified. |
Transit information |
The system specifies the regions that the transportation covers for the legs of the trips that have been determined. |
Log |
While taking into account the control parameters that you have chosen, the system specifies the messages that have been collected over time. |
Activities
To start the report, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Master Data ® Shipping and Receiving ® Route Determination ® Simulate Route Determination.