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Before you can start tendering, you must have specified the following items:

  • Customizing settings for tendering

  • A tendering plan

Prerequisites

You have defined the freight order types that are relevant for subcontracting.

For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under   Freight Order Management   Freight Order   Define Freight Order Types.  .

Process

You specify the following Customizing settings:

  • Visibility settings

  • Rejection reason codes

  • Notification e-mail settings

  • Process settings

  • Communication settings

  • Carrier-specific communication settings

  • Default settings

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

You can also specify freight order type settings for tendering. You must have specified the process settings and communication settings for tendering before you can specify the freight order type settings.

If you want the system to use the default settings to determine the Customizing settings, select the Use Default checkbox.

If you want the system to use conditions to determine the Customizing settings, select the Use Condition for Sett. Determ. checkbox.

If you want the system to use the freight order type to determine the Customizing settings, select the Use Type-Specific Settings checkbox. You must create a condition definition for the /SCMTMS/TEND condition type. This definition includes the following details:

  • The condition definition itself

  • The following details in the condition table:

    • The value of the attribute you have defined with the data access definition

    • The two result columns for tendering process settings and communication settings, which contain the names of the settings you have created in Customizing for tendering.

The system determines the tendering settings according to the type of freight order.

If you want to use tendering in the background, separately from carrier selection, you can use the /SCMTMS/TOR_TENDERING_BATCH program. For more information, see Tendering.