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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.

Prerequisites

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.

Process

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:

  1. Choose Tendering Overview.

  2. Set the Tendering Process Mode.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

Result

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.

More Information

For more information about tendering settings, see Customizing for Transportation Management under   Freight Order Management   Tendering   Define General Settings for Tendering  .

For more information about freight order settings, see Customizing for Transportation Management under   Freight Order Management   Freight Order   Define Freight Order Types  .

For more information about master data in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM), see Master Data.