Vehicle
A specialization of a particular means of transport. A vehicle can comprise one or more transportation units (TUs). For more information about transportation units, see Transportation Unit.
You define vehicles in the master data for transportation. You use vehicles to group TUs and to communicate with invoicing and freight order management.
It is not mandatory to use vehicles in shipping and receiving if the features available at TU level are sufficient for your transportation processes.
If you assign TUs to a vehicle in a fixed way, you cannot assign these TUs to another vehicle. In this case, data that you define for the vehicle is also valid for the assigned TUs.
The dimensions of the vehicle come from the means of transport that you assign to the vehicle, and are used as the planned size.
You can print waybills for vehicles. For more information, see Print Forms in Shipping and Receiving.
Integration
If you use the
Shipping Cockpit
in your outbound processes, a vehicle is just displayed as an attribute of the TU and not as its own hierarchy level. However, it is still possible to perform process steps on vehicles with assigned TUs, even if they are executed on TU level.For processes with transportation planning in SAP ERP, you can create a vehicle from an SAP ERP shipment. You can use the SAP ERP shipment number as the external vehicle number.
For processes with transportation planning in SAP Extended Warehouse Management and communication to SAP ERP, you can create an SAP ERP shipment from a vehicle. You can use the external vehicle number as SAP ERP shipment number.
For processes with transportation planning in
SAP Transportation Management
(SAP TM), you can create a vehicle from an SAP TM freight order. You can use the SAP TM freight order as the external vehicle number.Before goods issue posting, you can create the current invoice via an invoice request to
SAP CRM Billing
or toSAP ERP
. For more information, see Invoice Creation Before Goods Issue.
Example
The truck with the license plate number HSK-116 has a trailer. This means that it consists of two TUs: The cargo area and the trailer.