Information: Car Rental Availability: Provider List (SAP Library

Information: Car Rental Availability: Provider List

In the Car Rental Availability: Provider List dialog box you see the car rental providers with branch offices at the location requested that have vehicles available for the relevant time period.

Depending on the display strategy chosen for car rental requests, you see either a list of providers only, or a results list with not only the providers offered for selection but also information on the vehicle with the most economical rental price for each provider. (In Customizing for R/3 Travel Planning, under Travel Planning Control ® Define price and availability strategies the option Provider list with best-price vehicle is set to either active or inactive in the Car rental strategy section .)

Provider list without best-price vehicle

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If you select a provider here and choose Continue, the list of available vehicles with the specified provider appears.

Provider list with best-price vehicle

In this dialog box you can choose a vehicle. It will appear in your travel plan in the status Requested .

Legend

Rate type	Car rental rate depending on time period. The following rates are distinguished: DAILY, WEEKLY, WEEKEND, MONTHLY
DAILY	Price calculation on a daily basis (price per day). The 'day' time interval can last a maximum of 24 hours and 59 minutes.
WEEKLY	Flat rate for a time interval of at least 5 days.
WEEKEND	Weekend rate, which applies per day. For this rate there are the following requirements: Rental duration of 1 to 4 days Pickup by customer after 12 noon from Thursday to Sunday Dropoff by customer by 12 noon Monday There is a Friday, Saturday or Sunday within the rental duration.
MONTHLY	Daily or flat rate price for a total rental duration of at least 28 days. The customer is not under obligation to rent the car for longer than 31 days.
ACRIS code	Industry-specific code describing vehicle specifications with regard to following criteria: Vehicle class ("E" stands for "Economy", "I" for "Intermediate") The vehicle class of the rental car is entered directly from the connected reservation system. It must therefore not necessarily be identical with the car rental classes defined by your company in its Customizing settings (see Customizing for R/3 Travel Planning under Master Data ® Travel Service Providers ® Car Rentals ® Define assignment of car rental classes to vehicle specifications ). Vehicle type (for example "C" for "Two or four doors", "S" for "Sport") Transmission type "A" stands for "Automatic", "M" for „Manual". Air-conditioning "R" indicates "With air-conditioning", "N" means "No air-conditioning". The relevant codes are named in this order in the vehicle description and then decoded in text.
Price	Price specification on the basis of the rate type. The price is displayed in the currency defined by the car rental provider.
Status: On request	For technical reasons the reservation option for the vehicle can not be guaranteed by the car rental provider. If the system successfully selects the vehicle, you receive a success message and the car rental request is shown in your travel plan in the status Requested.
Status: Available	The vehicle is available for reservation.