Vehicle Appointment

Vehicle appointment is a persistent object that reserves a certain physical vehicle resource for a period of time. Additionally, the vehicle appointment has a set of statuses (such as “Checked In”, “Loading Started”, and so on.) and actions that can be triggered on it (“Post Check-In”, and so on).

Technical Data

Entity Type	Business Object
Technical Name	VehicleAppointment
Object Category	Business Process Object

Business Context and Use

The Vehicle Appointment business object is the reservation of a certain vehicle resource for a specific period of time. It provides execution tracking of logistic yard business activities, such as loading, unloading, and goods movements.

This business object comprises references to transportation unit (TU) appointments, which themselves comprise references to deliveries and handling units (HUs). This is primarily a query business object, implying that related operations allow for retrieving the information needed for getting an overview on the transportation service provider’s vehicles and TUs, including load completion status.

The operations for this business object are suitable for the following industry sectors:

External transportation planning and execution
Transportation logistics
Cross-industry warehousing

Features

The vehicle appointment allows the planning and execution of yard processes. It has one of the following states: “Planned”, “Active”, or “Executed”. There must not be more than one vehicle appointment with the state “Active” (when the physical vehicle is actually checked in yard) for one physical vehicle resource.The vehicle appointment defines planned start and end time slots, and executed start and end time points.The vehicle appointment may be connected to 1…n TU appointments for a certain period of time. This assignment corresponds to the planning or actual state of physical connection between the physical vehicle resource and the physical TU resource.

Notes on SAP Implementation

Note the following:

There are no operations existing for vehicle appointment creation, only operations for vehicle and TU appointment changes do exist.
The Shipping and Receiving component of EWM must be active.
The authority checks for the Process Vehicle (/SCWM/VEH) transaction are also valid for this business object.

Configuration

You can configure the operations for this business object in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Interfaces -> Service Operations -> Yard Management .

There you can define default values as well as filter criteria about the vehicles that should be processed using the operations.