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 Transportation Unit Appointment

 

Transportation Unit (TU) Appointment is a persisting object, which reserves certain physical transportation unit resource for a period of time. Additionally the TU-appointment has a set of status (such as, checked-in, loading started, etc.) and actions, which can be triggered on it (post check in, etc.). The TU-appointment allows planning and execution of yard processes. The TU-appointment has further one of the following states: planned, active, executed, invalidated. For one physical TU resource there may be not more than 1 TU-appointment with the state: active (when the physical vehicle actually is checked in yard). The TU appointment defines planed 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 the planning or actual state of physical connection between the physical vehicle resource and the physical TU resource. The TU-appointment may be connected to 0..N door-appointments for a certain period of time. This assignment corresponds the planning or actual state of docking on the physical door.

Technical Data

Entity Type

Business Object

Technical Name

TransportationUnitAppointment

Object Category

Business Process Object

Business Context and Use

The Transportation Unit Appointment business object enables the planning and management of yard processes using transportation unit appointments.  Specifically, the operations of the Transportation Unit Appointment business object are used as follows:

  • To query and retrieve information that provides an overview of a transportation service provider’s transportation units, including their load completion status

  • To notify a third party system of transportation unit appointment changes (such as creation, change or deletion)

  • To maintain transportation units. It is possible to check in, check out or move a transportation unit within the yard (dock to a door or a parking space). It is also possible to assign or reassign deliveries.

To support these operations, the transportation unit appointments must be created in the back-end system.

A transportation unit appointment can include the following data:

  • Deliveries and handling units (HUs)A transportation unit appointment can reference either inbound or outbound deliveries.

  • Physical connection between vehicle and transportation unit A transportation unit appointment is connected to a vehicle appointment for a certain period of time. This assignment corresponds to the planned or actual state of a physical connection between a physical vehicle resource and a physical transportation unit resource. For example, a transportation unit can be connected to door appointments for a certain period of time.  The assignment then corresponds to the planned or actual state of docking on a physical door.

  • Planned start and end time slots

  • Executed start and end time slots

  • StatusA transportation unit appointment can have a status of planned, active, or executed.

  • Progress status (such as, checked-in or loading started)

  • Actions

A transportation unit appointment has actions that can be triggered on it (such as post check in).

Transportation unit data can be changed using the operations of the Transportation Unit Appointment business object.A physical transportation unit resource has only one transportation unit appointment with an active state (when the physical transportation unit actually is checked in yard).

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

  • External transportation planning and execution

  • Transportation logistics

  • Cross-industry warehousing

Notes on SAP Implementation

The Transportation Unit Appointment business object does not contain operations that support creation of transportation unit appointments. The Shipping and Receiving component of SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) must be active.The authority checks for the Process Transportation Unit (/SCWM/TU) transaction are also valid for this business object.

Configuration

You can define default values as well as filter criteria for the transportation units which should be processed using the operations for this business object in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Interfaces -> Service Operations -> Yard Management .

More Information

For more information about transportation unit appointments and their use, see the SAP Library documentation for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) at http://help.sap.com/Information published on SAP site .  Search for the topics Shipping and Receiving , Yard Management , Yard Movement , and Transportation Unit .