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Process documentationInbound Processing: Transportation Planning in TM-EWM

 

When you receive goods from inbound delivery documents with the same transport, transportation planning is done in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) based on SAP ERP purchase orders, deliveries, or customer returns orders. SAP TM sends the planned freight order data directly to SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM). SAP EWM converts the information from the freight order into planned shipping and receiving activities in SAP EWM – namely vehicles or transportation units (TUs). You perform warehouse activities such as unloading and goods receipt for all deliveries.

Prerequisites

You have performed the steps to integrate vehicles and TUs with SAP TM in shipping and receiving, as described in Integration of Freight Orders (TM) in Shipping and Receiving.

Process

  1. SAP TM receives purchase orders, deliveries, or customer returns orders from SAP ERP and creates the corresponding transportation requirements and freight units.

  2. Based on transportation requirements, transportation planning is done and freight orders are created in SAP TM.

  3. If transportation planning was done based on purchase orders or customer returns orders, SAP TM creates deliveries in SAP ERP.

  4. SAP ERP distributes inbound deliveries to SAP EWM and SAP EWM automatically generates corresponding warehouse request in SAP EWM.

  5. SAP TM sends the freight order information to SAP EWM, where a vehicle or TUs and planned shipping and receiving activities are created automatically and the inbound deliveries are assigned to the created TU activities.

  6. 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.

  7. You assign a door to the vehicle or the TU.

  8. 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.

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

  10. 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.

  11. You execute the action Departure from Checkpoint for the vehicle or the TUs. SAP EWM automatically changes the status of the shipping and receiving activity from Active to Completed. This action triggers the notification to SAP TM about the executed shipping and receiving activities for the vehicle or the TUs. The freight order is updated by that information.

  12. You set the execution status of the SAP TM freight order to Completed.

  13. You carry out freight settlement in SAP TM. The freight settlement document in SAP TM is the basis for the invoice verification and settlement in SAP ERP.

More Information

For more information about the integration of SAP TM with SAP EWM, see SAP Library for SAP TM on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/tmInformation published on SAP site. In SAP Library, choose Start of the navigation path SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) Next navigation step ERP Logistics Integration Next navigation step Integration with SAP Extended Warehouse Management End of the navigation path.