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 Simulation of Dynamic Route Determination

Use

You can also perform dynamic route determination in simulation mode. Freight units and shipment proposals are provided as the results of dynamic route determination.

Features

To simulate dynamic route determination, enter the following data:

  • Required delivery date and time

  • Source location and destination location (You can enter either a location or a transportation zone as the destination location.)

  • Product and quantity

In order that the system can uniquely determine a route determination profile or a split rule, you can enter additional data such as:

  • Shipping conditions

  • Incoterms

  • Delivery priorities

You can display the freight units and shipment proposals determined by dynamic route determination either in two separate subscreens or in a hierarchical tree structure. You can also display error, warning, and information messages that the system issued during the simulation.

You can correlate freight units by taking into account their loading date. For more information about the delivery group correlation, see Route Determination Profile .

The results are displayed in the same way as for dynamic route determination from the ERP system . You can perform a number of actions for the shipment proposals determined:

  • Sort the proposals in accordance with predefined sort criteria

  • Display a fixed number of shipment proposals for a certain freight unit

  • Select a transportation service provider (TSP)

  • Change the resource assignment

    If the resource that you want to assign is already assigned to another shipment, the system informs you of the assignment in a warning message. If you ignore the warning message, the system assigns the required resource and removes the previous assignment.

You can display the dates/times and durations that are relevant to scheduling in a separate window. Shipments, transportation calendars, and resource calendars, as well as loading, transportation, and unloading durations are also displayed in a graphical format in this window.

Activities

To simulate dynamic route determination, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Advanced Planning and Optimization Next navigation step Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling Next navigation step Environment Next navigation step Current Settings Next navigation step Dynamic Route Determination Next navigation step Simulate Dynamic Route Determination. End of the navigation path