You can use the Shipping Cockpit – Planning to plan transportation units (TUs). When planning transports for a given day, the shipping office clerk searches for unplanned outbound delivery orders. He or she creates TUs in the system and assigns the unplanned outbound delivery orders to these TUs, based on constraints of weight, volume, and time. Once the shipping office clerk and the carrier have agreed upon the planned arrival of the TU, the shipping office clerk enters this information in the system. Integration with SAP Dock Appointment Scheduling provides more detailed support for time scheduling but is not mandatory. Then the shipping office clerk checks which staging area is to be used for staging the goods and assigns a staging area if one is not already assigned. Finally, the clerk may decide to plan the door that will be used for loading when the truck arrives, and to trigger the warehouse process with wave creation.

You can plan the TUs manually or use automatic planning. For more information, see Automatic Outbound Planning.