Process documentationOutbound Processing: Transportation Planning in ERP

 

When you plan to send goods of several outbound delivery documents with the same transport, you use the shipment documents in SAP ERP as a basis for carrying out transportation planning. The system converts handling units (HUs) in SAP ERP shipments into a vehicle, transportation unit (TU), or both, and a planned shipping and receiving activity in SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM). After warehouse execution, you communicate the transport information back to SAP ERP to carry out freight cost settlement and invoicing.

Prerequisites

You have created vehicles and TUs as described in Setting Up the Creation of Vehicles and Transportation Units.

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

Process

  1. SAP ERP distributes outbound deliveries to SAP EWM where warehouse requests of the type outbound delivery are automatically generated.

    For more information, see Outbound Processing: Transportation Planning in ERP

  2. In SAP ERP, you create a shipment with HU and assign outbound deliveries.

    The shipment information is transferred to SAP EWM, where a vehicle or a TU and a planned shipping and receiving activity is created automatically and the outbound deliveries are assigned to the TU activity.

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

  4. 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.

  5. You 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 warehouse activities, such as unloading the goods, posting the goods receipt, and putting away the goods.

  8. With goods issue posting in SAP EWM, the transport information is transferred to SAP ERP, where a shipment is automatically updated with the execution data.

  9. 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.