Data Use in Route Determination 

Route determination uses various data from the delivery, a change in which also triggers new route determination.

●      From the delivery header, route determination uses the supply chain units of the warehouse and the ship-to party, for example.

●      Route determination uses certain delivery-relevant items (see Executing Automatic Route Determination).

Non delivery-relevant items are text or kit items, or items that are not warehouse-relevant.

●      Route determination uses the latest planned goods issue date/time of all the relevant items of the delivery as the start date/time for the forward scheduling of route determination. The planned delivery date is used for backward scheduling.

●      If you manually specify the carrier, the route or the means of transport, or if an external system specifies them, route determination uses them as additional constraints. For example, you manually specify the carrier. Route determination determines routes for this carrier only as valid. Using the determination indicator, route determination identifies whether it automatically determined the field or whether you or an external system specified the field.

When route determination determines a valid route, it copies the following data to the delivery:

●      Route at header level

●      Means of transport at header level

●      Carrier at header level on the Partner tab page (if route determination automatically determined the carrier)

●      Date/time Departure from Yard at header level

●      Delivery date/time at header level

●      Sequence number at header level

●      Export relevance at header level