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You use this process to book transportation activities in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) based on deliveries that are transferred from SAP ERP. This process is similar to delivery-based planning (see Shipment Integration Based on Freight Orders), but it takes into consideration the booking of transportation activities, for example, with a shipping company or an airline.

Prerequisites

You have created deliveries in SAP ERP. Note that the following restrictions apply:

  • Delivery splits are not supported in SAP TM.

  • Deliveries have to be planned as consignments.

  • The creation of combined inbound and outbound shipments from SAP ERP deliveries is not supported.

  • Changing delivery amounts and items from SAP TM is not supported.

  • Feedback of any data into a delivery is not allowed.

If you carry out transportation execution for the freight bookings in SAP ERP (see step 6 below), the following additional prerequisites have to be met:

  • You have set the shipment creation relevance for the relevant freight booking types to Shipment Creation in SAP ERP. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under   Freight Order Management   Freight Booking   Define Freight Booking Types  .

  • You have assigned an output profile to the relevant freight booking types in the same Customizing activity.

  • You have set up a configuration scenario for the TM_ERPShipmentIntegration_Out outbound integration scenario in SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI).

  • The freight booking meets the following prerequisites:

    • It is in process; it is not blocked for planning or execution; and it is not marked for deletion.

    • It is related to one or more delivery-based transportation requirements. The referenced delivery-based transportation requirements come from one SAP ERP system.

    • A carrier is assigned to the freight booking.

Process

  1. You transfer deliveries created in SAP ERP to SAP TM, and the SAP TM system creates delivery-based transportation requirements (DTRs) for the deliveries.

    For more information, see ERP Logistics Integration.

  2. You plan your transportation process in SAP TM based on the DTRs, or you have already carried out planning based on order-based transportation requirements (OTRs).

    For more information, see Planning.

  3. You create a freight booking manually in SAP TM and assign the DTRs to the freight booking.

    For more information, see Creation and Editing of Freight Bookings.

  4. You send the freight booking to the carrier, for example, a shipping company or an airline.

  5. The carrier confirms the freight booking.

  6. You carry out transportation execution for the freight booking in SAP TM or in SAP ERP.

    If you carry out execution in SAP ERP, you send the freight booking from SAP TM to SAP ERP, which creates a shipment based on the freight booking. You can then carry out further steps in SAP ERP.

    The SAP TM system sends the freight booking to SAP ERP using the outbound enterprise service Request Transportation Order Execution (TransportationOrderSCMExecutionRequest_Out), which is in the Transportation Order Processing process component. The SAP ERP system receives the freight booking and creates a shipment using IDoc SHPMNT05.