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 Executing Interactive Optimization

Prerequisites

See Optimization

Procedure

  1. 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 Planning Next navigation step Interactive Vehicle Scheduling End of the navigation path .

    The Vehicle Scheduling – Selection screen appears.

  2. Choose the required optimization profile and then Execute .

    The Vehicle Scheduling – Resource screen appears.

    Note Note

    • You can use Do not optimize order to exclude orders from the optimization run.

    • If you choose Change Shipment Fixing for a shipment, the system does not take it into account in the optimization run.

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  3. To call the optimizer, choose VS Optimization . The Optimizer Settings dialog box appears.

  4. Choose Interactive and make additional settings, as required.

    Note Note

    • For example, you can change the planning horizon. However, here you cannot enter an earlier start date or a later end date. This means that you can only enter a later start date or an earlier end date.

    • If you choose the option In Background instead of Interactive , the system executes optimization in the background. In this case, the additional steps are not required.

    • If you choose Only Selected Objects , the system executes optimization only for individual vehicle resources and orders that you have chosen before in the planning view. In this way, you can add orders to a planned shipment or execute optimization again for individual vehicle resources, for example.

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  5. The VS Optimization screen appears. There you can make the following settings, for example, for the optimization run:

    • Define the weighting of costs

      To do this, choose Optimization Profile and then the Cost Factors tab page.

    • End the optimization run after the initial solution has been evaluated

      To do this, choose Optimization Profile and then the Basic Settings tab page.

  6. Choose Start Optimization Run to execute the optimization.

    The system executes the optimization run. The following results are displayed:

    • Weighted or unweighted resulting costs

    • Information about temporary solutions

      If you want to display the solution process for another parameter, double-click it in the Current solution area. If you want to display the solution process for several parameters, select the requested parameters and choose Show values .

    • Additional information, for example:

      • Resulting costs broken down by vehicle

        The values displayed are based on the costs defined in the cost profile .

      • Details about transportation lanes

        If you work with transportation zones, the system displays all the relevant transportation lanes that were generated during the runtime here.

    • Overview of the best solution (end result of optimization)

    • Details about messages

  7. When you exit the optimizer, you can choose whether you want to adopt or reject the planned shipments that have just been generated.

    If you adopt the new planned shipments, you can then continue to process these in interactive planning.