Automatic Creation of Transportation Lanes

Transportation lanes can be created automatically as well as manually.

Transportation lanes are created automatically in the SCM system if you have transferred the following data from the ERP system via Core Interface (CIF):

Purchasing data, such as purchasing info records, contracts, or scheduling agreements
Sales Scheduling Agreements
Material masters with a special form of procurement consisting of a procurement type F: external procurement and a special procurement U: stock transfer.

Prerequisites

You have transferred the following data from the ERP system per CIF:

In the case of transportation lanes with reference to ERP purchasing data:

Purchasing info records
Scheduling agreements
Contracts

To be able to transfer purchasing data, you also have to transfer plants, material master records, and vendor master records.

For more information, see Processing an External Procurement Relationship.

In the case of transportation lanes with reference to ERP sales scheduling agreements:

Sales scheduling agreements

To be able to transfer sales scheduling agreements, you also have to transfer plants, material master records, and customer master records.

In the case of transportation lanes with reference to the special procurement type of the ERP material master record:

Material master records

To be able to transfer material master records, you also have to transfer plants.

Features

Transportation Lanes with Reference to ERP Purchasing Data

If you have transferred purchasing data from the ERP system, the SCM system automatically creates external procurement relationships for the products concerned.

For more information, see Processing an External Procurement Relationship.

For example, if the external procurement relationship contains an info record that has a vendor as the source location and a plant as the destination location, the system creates a corresponding transportation lane running from the vendor location to the plant location.

The system links the external procurement relationship with the transportation lane. This transportation lane contains the following product procurement data:

Validity
Form of procurement
Source of supply category
Purchasing document number
Purchasing document item
Purchasing organization
Planned delivery time
Goods receipt processing time

Transportation Lanes with Reference to Sales Scheduling Agreements

If you have transferred sales scheduling agreements from the ERP system, the SCM system automatically creates SCM sales scheduling agreements for the products concerned.

If the SCM sales scheduling agreement contains items that have a plant as a source location and a customer location as a destination location, the system creates a corresponding transportation lane running from the plant location to the customer location.

The system links the SCM sales scheduling agreement with the transportation lane. This transportation lane contains the following external procurement data:

Sales document number
Sales item
Sales organization

Transportation Lanes with Reference to ERP Material Master Record

Storing a special procurement type with procurement type F: External Procurement and special procurement U: Stock Transfer (in the MRP 2 view of the ERP material master record), means that the material has to be procured externally from another plant (supplying plant) or transferred from another plant.

To also be able to perform stock transfers for this material in the SCM system, there has to be a transportation lane from the supplying plant to the receiving plant. If you have transferred a material with this special procurement type from the ERP system, the SCM system automatically creates a corresponding transportation lane from the supplying plant to the receiving plant for the supplying plant (from the special procurement type) and material/plant combination. The transportation lane is given the creation indicator "S" for special procurement.

Caution Caution

When the material master record is transferred from the ERP system to the SCM system, if there is already a manually created transportation lane with exactly the same supplying plant and receiving plant combination, this is kept and no new transportation lane is created.

End of the caution.

Change of Supplying Plant in the Special Procurement Type

If you have changed the supplying plant in the special procurement type in the ERP system, the SCM system creates a new transportation lane for the new combination of supplying plant (from special procurement type) and material/plant. The already existing transportation lane and the now invalid combination of supplying plant and plant in the ERP system is locked for orders in the SAP APO system. This can be seen from the lock indicator X that is set by the system.

Inclusion in Source Determination

If transportation lanes (that were generated or manually created when purchasing data was transferred from the ERP system) already exist in the SCM system, the SCM system takes these transportation lanes into account when determining sources of supply. In this case, the transportation lanes that were automatically generated from the ERP material master are not taken into account.

Activities

You can display and process automatically created transportation lanes by choosing Master Data Transportation Lanes from the SCM Basis menu.
You can go directly from the transportation lane to its associated external procurement relationship by choosing Goto External Procurement Rel.
You can go directly from the transportation lane to its associated sales scheduling agreement by choosing Goto Sales Scheduling Agreements.