Transportation Planning View

Definition

A view that selects and displays transportation orders and relevant resources, which are planned in a joint planning step. This step can be carried out either manually or by using one or more planning engines.

Technical Data

Entity Type	Business Object
Technical Name	TransportationPlanningView
Object Category	Transformed Object

Business Context and Use

The Transportation Planning View business object enables you to carry out planning activities and create delivery proposals for selected transportation orders. It is used to select and display transportation orders and relevant resources for which planning is to be carried out. It is also used to select and display transportation orders for which delivery proposals are to be created. It enables the relevant activity to be performed, and it can also display the result of the activity, for example, the created delivery proposals.

Features

The Transportation Planning View business object is used in manual processing and background processing. In both cases, it uses specified selection parameters and profiles to select the relevant transportation orders and resources.

Use Case 1: Interactive Freight Unit Planning

The transportation planning view uses specified selection profiles and parameters to select and display freight units (FUs) and relevant resources that are to be planned in a joint planning step. The user can then assign the FUs to the resources and trigger the planning step. Note that the resources comprise handling resources and vehicle resources (including passive resources). The planning step includes vehicle scheduling, with the option of creating freight orders or freight bookings. The transportation planning view also displays the freight orders or freight bookings if they are created during planning.

Use Case 2: Interactive Delivery Creation

The transportation planning view uses specified selection profiles and parameters to select and display freight units or freight orders for which delivery proposals are to be created. The user selects the required freight units or freight orders from the overview and triggers the creation of the delivery proposals. The transportation planning view displays the delivery proposals, which can then be sent to a connected logistics execution system.

Notes on SAP Implementation

Integration

This business object and its operations are used to exchange delivery data between SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) and SAP ERP, as follows:

When a user or a background report in the SAP TM back-end system sends delivery proposals to SAP ERP, the Transportation Planning View business object triggers the Create Outbound Delivery as Bulk outbound operation or the Create Inbound Delivery outbound operation.
When SAP ERP informs SAP TM whether delivery creation was successful, SAP TM receives the confirmation data using the corresponding Change Transportation Planning View Based on Delivery Bulk Confirmation inbound operation or the Change Transportation Planning View based on Delivery Confirmation inbound operation. Note, however, that neither of these inbound operations change an instance of a Transportation Planning View business object. It is a transient business object that is not persisted in the database. Instead, these operations add the log entries in the confirmation messages to the business application log of the receiving SAP TM back-end system.

Configuration

To exchange delivery data between SAP TM and SAP ERP, you have to connect your SAP TM system to an SAP ERP system and make the required Customizing settings in both systems. For more information, see Configuring Integration of Orders and Deliveries.