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You use this process to send loading and unloading instructions to an external system and to receive confirmations from an external system. The following section contains a description of an example process:

Prerequisites

  • You have configured your sending system, for example, SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM).

  • Your receiving system, for example, an external warehouse management system, can receive messages.

  • You have configured your XI system, for example, SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI).

  • Freight bookings or freight orders exist.

Process

  1. You send loading instructions to the warehouse by choosing   Follow-Up Actions   Send Loading and Unloading Instructions  . SAP TM sends the TransportationOrderLoadingAppointment_Out message to the receiving system, for example, an external warehouse management system. This message contains the following information:

    • All relevant containers or unit load devices

    • All assigned freight orders including the items

    • If necessary, the assignment of individual items to containers or unit load devices, if these exist

  2. The warehouse loads the containers or unit load devices. This means the warehouse assigns the individual items or, if necessary, changes the specified assignment. The warehouse then returns this information to you. SAP TM receives the confirmations with the TransportationOrderLoadingAppointmentNotification_In message. In SAP TM, the status of the items that, according to the message, were loaded, is automatically set to Loaded.

  3. After the containers or unit load devices have arrived at the receiving warehouse, you send the unloading instructions to the warehouse. You do this by choosing   Follow-Up Actions   Send Loading and Unloading Instructions   in the freight order or in the freight booking. SAP TM sends the TransportationOrderLoadingAppointment_Out message to the receiving warehouse management system. This message contains the actual contents of the freight order or freight booking.

  4. The warehouse unloads the containers or unit load devices and confirms this to you. SAP TM receives the confirmations with the TransportationOrderLoadingAppointmentNotification_In message. In SAP TM, the status of the items that, according to the message, were unloaded, is automatically set to Unloaded.

    The TransportationOrderLoadingAppointmentNotification_In message also contains the following information:

    • Discrepancies

    • Assignment of forwarding orders that were not originally assigned to the freight booking or the freight order and that were assigned to the warehouse retroactively

    • Assignment of items from other freight orders or freight bookings

    • Items that were split between multiple containers or unit load devices

    • References to business transaction documents