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You use this process to make the required entries and settings in a freight document that are related to the opening and closing of the transit procedure.

Note Note

For the transit procedure, SAP TM does not provide functions for integrating a customs management application. You can make the required entries and settings that relate to the transit procedure in the relevant business documents, but you cannot trigger any follow-on processes in a connected customs management application. If required, however, you can implement a Business Add-In (BAdI) in order to call an outbound service for a transit declaration. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under   Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) for Transportation Management   Basic Functions   Global Trade   Declarations   BAdI: Creation of Transit Declarations on Freight Document  .

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The following is an example of the transit procedure for freight documents. Variants of this process are possible.

Prerequisites

  • You have defined customs activities for opening the transit procedure and for closing the transit procedure. You have assigned the customs activities to a customs profile. You have assigned the customs profile to the relevant freight document types.

    You make these settings in Customizing for Transportation Management as follows:

    • You define activities and profiles under   Basic Functions   Global Trade   Define Customs Activities and Profiles  .

      You can use standard customs activity TRA_T1 for opening the transit procedure and TRA_T1_CL for closing the transit procedure. These activities are assigned to standard customs profile GT_INBOUND.

      Note that you also have to define customs statuses and cumulated customs statuses. You assign the customs statuses to the customs activity. You can also assign block reasons to cumulated customs statuses.

      For more information, see Configuration of Customs Processing.

    • You assign a customs profile to a freight order type under   Freight Order Management   Freight Order   Define Freight Order Types  .

    • You assign a customs profile to a freight booking type under   Freight Order Management   Freight Booking   Define Freight Booking Types  .

  • You have defined that customs handling is automatic in the relevant forwarding order types. You define forwarding order types in Customizing for Transportation Management under   Forwarding Order Management   Forwarding Order   Define Forwarding Order Types  .

  • You have created a forwarding order with the required items, and you have made the following settings in the forwarding order:

    • On the Customs tab page at item level, you have entered the required customs data (for example, commodity code and previous documents) and you have set the inbound customs activity to Transit Procedure.

    • On the Stages tab page, you have set the inbound customs activity to Transit Procedure for the relevant stages in the actual route.

    You have saved the forwarding order and the system has created freight units. Note that the system automatically sets the inbound customs activity to Transit Procedure in the freight units.

  • To open the transit procedure, the goods have arrived at the point of entry into the customs union or the goods have been stored in a bonded warehouse.

  • To close the transit procedure, the following requirements have been met:

    • The goods have arrived at the transit end location.

    • The transit procedure has been opened and approved.

Process

  1. You make the required entries and settings for opening the transit procedure (see Transit Procedure: Open Transit in Freight Documents).

  2. You make the required entries and settings for closing the transit procedure (see Transit Procedure: Close Transit in Freight Documents).

  3. You make the required entries and settings for canceling the transit procedure (optional).

    You cancel a transit procedure by selecting the customs activity on the Customs tab page in the freight document and choosing the Cancel Customs Declaration pushbutton.

    In the freight document, the system sets the customs status of the customs groups as specified in the customs activity (for example, “Open Transit Canceled” or “Close Transit Canceled”). In the freight document and the corresponding forwarding order, the system sets the relevant cumulated customs status at header and item level. If you have assigned a block reason to the cumulated customs status, the system sets an execution block in the freight document.