Request Transportation Request 
To request the creation of a transportation request or the change of an existing transportation request.
Technical Data
Entity Type |
Service Operation |
Software Component Version |
SAP APPL 6.06 |
released |
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CRP_TransportationRequestSUITERequest_Out |
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http://sap.com/xi/APPL/Global2 |
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SAP A2A |
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outbound |
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asynchronous |
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no |
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no |
Business Context and Use
You carry out transportation planning for returns orders in an external transportation management system (TMS) as part of a customer returns process, for example. In this process, the external TMS plans the transportation capacity and resources for the orders and creates optimized delivery proposals. You can send a returns order to an external TMS using the Request Transportation Request operation, which requests the creation of a transportation request of the category order-based transportation requirement (OTR) in the external TMS.
Related Operations
In a customer returns process, you can use the Create Inbound Delivery operation ( Inbound Delivery business object) to receive an optimized inbound delivery proposal from an external TMS. After creating deliveries in SAP ERP, you can send them to the external TMS to execute the transportation activities. To send an inbound delivery, you can use the Request Transportation Request operation ( Inbound Delivery business object). In this case, the operation requests the creation of a transportation request of the category delivery-based transportation requirement (DTR) in the external TMS.
Note that split criteria and combination criteria can affect the creation of deliveries in SAP ERP. As a result, a single delivery proposal from an external TMS does not automatically lead to the creation of a single delivery in SAP ERP.
In addition, you can use the following operations:
To request the cancellation of an OTR, you can use the Request Transportation Request Cancellation operation.
To send a sales order to an external TMS, you can use the Request Transportation Request operation ( Sales Order business object).
Features
The Request Transportation Request operation is triggered when an order is created or changed. When an order is created, it sends the order to the external TMS and requests the creation of a transportation request of the category order-based transportation requirement (OTR). When an order is changed, it sends the entire order again and requests the update of the corresponding OTR. (There is a one-to-one relationship between an order in SAP ERP and an OTR in an external TMS.) When the external TMS receives an order, it creates or changes the OTR and carries out transportation planning. The planning process may lead to order combinations or order splits, for example.
For more information about the data sent by this operation, see Data in a Request Transportation Request .
Error Handling
If errors occur during message output, they are written to the relevant processing log (for example, to the message log for errors that occur during NAST processing and to the XMB_MONI technical monitor for errors related to XML processing).
Each time an order is retransmitted to an external TMS (for example, because order quantities have changed), the Request Transportation Request operation requests the update of an OTR. If the external TMS cannot identify the corresponding OTR, appropriate error handling measures have to be carried out in the external TMS.
Message Types
TransportationRequestSUITERequest
Constraints
Note that although this operation is a request operation, it does not have a corresponding confirmation operation. A request operation has been used to reflect the fact that the operation requests the creation or change of an OTR in the receiving system.
Notes on SAP Implementation
For more information, see the documentation of the Intracompany Transportation Requesting Out interface.
Enhancements
The OPS_SE_SOC_BADI_FILL Business Add-In (BAdI) is available for this operation.