Process documentationOutbound Processing: Transportation Planning in EWM-ERP

 

When you plan to send goods of several outbound delivery documents with the same transport, you use transportation units (TUs) or vehicles to group the deliveries. You perform warehouse activities such as loading, printing of transportation documents, and goods issue for all deliveries at one time. After the warehouse execution, you communicate the transport information back to SAP ERP in order to carry out freight cost settlement and invoicing.

Prerequisites

You have met the prerequisites described in Integration of ERP Shipments in Shipping and Receiving.

Process

  1. You or SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) create warehouse requests for outbound delivery orders.

    Either SAP ERP distributes outbound deliveries to SAP EWM and SAP EWM automatically generates corresponding warehouse requests, or you manually generate warehouse requests in SAP EWM.

  2. You manually create a vehicle or a TU and a planned shipping and receiving activity in SAP EWM.

  3. You execute the action Arrival at Checkpoint for the vehicle or the TU.

    The system automatically changes the status of the shipping and receiving activity from Planned to Active.

  4. You manually assign the warehouse requests to the shipping and receiving activity in SAP EWM.

  5. You or SAP EWM assign a door to the vehicle or the TU.

  6. If yard management is active, you move the vehicle or the TU from the yard to the assigned door.

    If yard management is not active, you execute the action Arrival at Door for the vehicle or the TU.

  7. You perform the warehouse activities related to the outbound delivery orders, such as picking, packing, staging, and loading the goods.

    Note that all warehouse activities except loading can be performed before arrival of the vehicle or TU to the door.

  8. If yard management is active, you move the vehicle or the TU from the door to the yard.

    If yard management is not active, you execute the action Departure from Door for the vehicle or the TU.

  9. You post goods issue for the vehicle, the TUs, or the outbound deliveries.

    With the goods issue posting in SAP EWM, the transport information is transferred to SAP ERP, where a shipment is automatically created that contains the transport unit and the execution dates.

    In this step, you can decide not to set the shipment end date in SAP ERP if you want to monitor the cargo in transit and the arrival at the customer site in SAP ERP.

  10. You execute the action Departure from Checkpoint for the vehicle or the TU.

    SAP EWM automatically changes the status of the shipping and receiving activity from Active to Completed.

  11. You carry out the freight cost settlement in SAP ERP. The freight cost settlement document is the basis for the invoicing in SAP ERP.