This process enables you to create a tendering plan, so that you can send out freight requests for quotation (freight RFQs) to carriers. You can create a plan manually, or enable the system to create a plan automatically.
You can run automatic tendering in the background. After you start an automatic tendering process, the system determines a tendering profile automatically. Depending on your settings, the system can propose the price limit and a carrier.
You can also create the tendering plan manually. You can use the steps and carriers of a previously used tendering profile in the plan.
To determine a profile automatically, you have defined one of the following Customizing activities:
Process settings in the Customizing activity Define General Settings for Tendering.
The system uses these as the default settings.
Freight order type settings in the Customizing activity Define Freight Order Types.
These settings use the process settings to determine the profile for a freight order type.
To manually create a tendering plan in NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC), you need a road freight order for which you have started tendering but which you have not yet published. Use the following steps:
Choose Tendering Overview.
Set the Tendering Process Mode.
Create a tendering plan by defining the individual tendering steps.
If you select a profile, you can define the steps and carriers that the system automatically copies from the profile.
Specify the attributes of each tendering step.
For example, when you add a carrier, define carrier attributes such as maximum response duration and price limit.
For automatic tendering, the system loads a defined tendering profile, carriers, and price limits when you start the tendering process.
You have set up a tendering plan. When you publish the tendering plan, the system sends the first freight RFQs. You can save the tendering plan as a new tendering profile.
For more information about tendering settings, see Customizing for Transportation Management under
.For more information about freight order settings, see Customizing for Transportation Management under
.For more information about master data in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM), see Master Data.