Delivery Processing with Transportation Integration

Delivery processing offers features to integrate Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) with the Transportation (LE-TRA) component of SAP ERP. With this integration, you can control and monitor the entire transportation process from the planning stage to the goods receipt at the customer location or your own plant.

To use transportation integration, you must activate the business function EWM, Integration with Transportation (SCM_EWM_TRANS_INT_1).

Features

Delivery processing offers you the following features:

Outbound deliveries and outbound delivery orders that are relevant for transportation planning in SAP ERP are not relevant for transportation cross-docking in EWM (see Transportation Cross-Docking (TCD)).
In case of a late split of an outbound delivery order by means of a process code or item deletion, the system does not automatically take over the TU assignment from the old outbound delivery order to the new outbound delivery order.
The following screens display the transportation planning type, which indicates the system that is responsible for the transportation planning:
- Inbound delivery header
- Inbound delivery notification header
- Outbound delivery header
- Outbound delivery order header
- Outbound delivery request header
Upon an update of TU information to delivery, the system starts a new staging area and door determination based on the new transportation information such as carrier, means of transport, handling unit type of the TU packaging material.
When a door is assigned to an item, the system redetermines the staging area by using the assigned door.
The Blocked (Transp. Plan) status on delivery header level blocks EWM execution as long as transportation planning results aremissing. Depending on your Customizing, you can manually release a delivery for execution in EWM before the results of the transportation planning are available. For more information, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Goods Receipt Process Inbound Delivery Integration with Transportation Allow EWM Execution Without Transportation Planning (Inbound) or Goods Issue Process Outbound Delivery Integration with Transportation Allow EWM Execution Without Transportation Planning (Outbound) .
The Transport Plan status indicates whether a transportation plan exists for an inbound delivery, similarly to the status of an outbound delivery order.

Transportation integration enables the following processes:

Warehouse Inbound Processing with Transportation Integration
When you create a delivery in SAP ERP, the system replicates it to EWM. You can then create a shipment in SAP ERP and assign inbound deliveries to it. When the planning for the shipment is completed, the system replicates the shipment with the assigned inbound deliveries to EWM through the SHPMNT05 IDoc. After receiving the IDoc in EWM, the system automatically creates transportation unit (TU) activities (and optionally a vehicle activity) for the shipment with the assigned inbound deliveries. You can then process the unloading, the goods receipt and the putaway by means of the desktop or radio frequency.
Warehouse Outbound Processing with Transportation Integration
In the outbound processing, you can use the following process versions:
- Warehouse Outbound Processing with Transportation Planning in SAP ERP
  When you create a delivery in SAP ERP, the system replicates it to EWM. You can then create a shipment in SAP ERP and assign outbound deliveries to it. When you save the shipment with the assigned outbound deliveries, the system replicates it to EWM through the SHPMNT05 IDoc. After receiving the IDoc in EWM, the system automatically creates corresponding TU activities (and optionally a vehicle activity). You can then process the picking (and optionally the packing and the loading) by means of the desktop or radio frequency. After loading is completed in the system, you can post the goods issue. When the system has set the Goods Issue Posted status of the TU, the system replicates the TU to SAP ERP through the SHPMNT05 IDoc as an update of the existing shipment in SAP ERP.
- Warehouse Outbound Processing with Transportation Planning in EWM
  When you create a delivery in SAP ERP, the system replicates it to EWM. In EWM, you can assign the delivery to a TU (and optionally a vehicle). You can then process the picking (and optionally the packing and the loading) by means of the desktop or radio frequency. After loading is completed in the system, you can post the goods issue. When the system has set the Goods Issue Posted status of the TU, the system replicates the TU to SAP ERP through the SHPMNT05 IDoc as a new shipment in SAP ERP.

More Information

Shipping and Receiving with Transportation Integration