Business scenario

Supports the following business process:

Supports the following business process:

Purchasing organization

Option to specify the purchasing organization in the freight order or freight booking in SAP TM as the purchasing organization.

Specify the purchasing organization in the freight order or freight booking in SAP TM as a forwarding house. This enables you to use an internal settlement process for the freight order or freight booking.

Charge calculation

Calculate charges in the freight order or freight booking. Use the rates in the rate table, in line with the freight agreement between the purchasing organization in the freight order or freight booking and the LSP.

In addition to the charge calculation in the freight order or freight booking, calculate internal charges in the OTR or DTR. The internal charges in the OTR or DTR give you, as the group logistics company, the amounts you expect to receive from the internal shipper companies.

Internal settlement document

Not required

You, as a group logistics company, use an internal settlement document to recover the cost of providing the transportation service from the other internal shipper companies. You can create and transfer an internal settlement document when the life cycle status of the freight order is In Execution.

Cost distribution in the freight order

Not required

Distribute costs in the freight order if you want to use the distributed cost as a basis for internal settlement.

Cost distribution in the freight settlement document

Distribute costs in the freight settlement document to enable you to post freight costs in SAP ERP.

Distribute costs in the freight settlement document if you, as a group logistics company, have the following business requirements:

Cost distribution in the internal settlement document

Not required

Distribute costs in the internal settlement document if an internal shipper company needs to post the freight cost to an underlying transportation requirement, for example, a sales order item, a delivery item, or a purchase order item.

Organizations

Standard organizational setup. Purchasing organization is set up with organizational unit function specified as Purchasing.

In SAP TM, if you want to base the internal settlement process on the freight order or freight booking, the purchasing organization in the freight order or freight booking is set up with organizational unit function specified as a forwarding house.

Transfer of freight settlement document to SAP ERP

SAP TM transfers the freight settlement document, with distributed costs, to SAP ERP.

Purchase order and service entry sheet (SES):

Agency business document:

SAP TM transfers the freight settlement document, with distributed costs, to SAP ERP.

Purchase order and service entry sheet (SES):

Agency business document:

Transfer of internal settlement document to SAP ERP

Not required

SAP ERP creates an intercompany billing document in Sales and Distribution (SD) billing. This creates the accounts receivable for the group logistics company.

The accounts receivable indicates the amounts the group logistics company needs to recover from the other internal shipper companies.

This records the accounts payable to you, as the group logistics company. For example, the IDoc posts an incoming invoice for Company_2000 and Company_3000, recording the accounts payable to Company_1000.

SAP ERP creates an agency business document with a line item for each line item in the freight order or freight booking. It copies the account assignment details from the relevant SAP ERP document, for example, from the sales order item, purchase order item, or stock transfer order item. SAP ERP links the agency business document to the sales order item, purchase order item, or delivery line item of the orders that belong to the internal shipper companies.