You can use a group logistics process to consolidate all the transportation requirements from all the companies in your enterprise into one central logistics company.
Your core business activity can be something other than providing transportation services. For example, your core business activity can be manufacturing. However, you need to transport the goods you manufacture to your customers. To enable this, you can have a company in your group of companies that provides transportation services to all the other companies.
You can use the internal settlement process to settle the freight costs between the group logistics company and the other companies in your group of companies.
Technical Name of Product Feature |
|
---|---|
Product Feature Is | New |
Country Dependency | No |
Software Component Version |
|
Application Component |
|
Available as of | SAP enhancement package 7 for SAP ERP 6.0 support Package 8 |
Required Business Functions |
|
This feature enables you to consolidate the transportation activities in your company so that you get the following business benefits:
Better transportation rates from your logistics service providers (LSPs) or shippers
Centralized transportation operation that gives you full visibility to your transportation demand
Standardized tracking of your shipments across all the companies in your enterprise
Focus of a single company in your enterprise on transportation activities
You can perform the following transportation activities:
Settle freight costs between individual companies in your enterprise (perform intercompany settlement for the freight cost)
Post freight costs to the financial accounting system in SAP ERP for both the company that requests the transportation service and the company that provides the transportation service
Post the breakdown of freight costs to the level of transportation demand items in the financial system of the company that requests the transportation service
The group logistics features in the SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) 9.3 SP00 release supports the following business models:
Dedicated internal provider of transportation services
The only function of the group logistics company is to provide transportation services to all other companies in the group of companies.
Consolidator of internal transportation requirements
The group logistics company consolidates internal transportation requirements and pays the external carrier for providing transportation services. The core business activity of the group logistics company is not in providing internal transportation services, but in providing another business activity, for example, manufacturing.
You must upgrade to SAP TM 9.3 SP00 and SAP ERP EHP7 SP08. Only new order-based transportation requirements (OTRs) and delivery-based transportation requirements (DTRs) in the upgraded versions of the software can participate in the group logistics process.
We have added a Calculate Internal Charges
button to the OTR and DTR screens. This enables you to calculate charges in the OTR and DTR.
For more information, see SAP Library for SAP TM on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/tm. In SAP Library, choose .