Org. Prerequisites in SAP TM and SAP ERP for Group Log. Process

Organizational Settings

You have specified your organizational structure in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) in line with the organizational structure in SAP ERP.

For example, the following table contains the organizational structure you can build in SAP ERP and the corresponding structure in SAP TM:

SAP ERP Entity	SAP ERP ID	SAP TM Entity	SAP TM ID
Company	1000	Company organization	CO_1000
Sales organization	S001	Sales organization	SO_S001
Customer	CO_1000	Business partner	CO_1000
Company	2000	Company organization	CO_2000
Sales organization	S002	Sales organization	SO_S002
Customer	CO_2000	Business partner	CO_2000
Company	3000	Company organization	CO_0003
Sales organization Purchasing organization	S301 P301	Forwarding house	FH_FH301
Vendor	CO_3000	Business partner	CO_3000

In SAP ERP, you can specify the organizational master data settings in Customizing for Enterprise Structure under Definition. You can link the master data objects under Assignment.

In SAP TM, you can use the Create and Merge Organizational Hierarchy Customizing activity to upload your organizational hierarchy from SAP ERP. This helps you to copy your organizational settings to SAP TM. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Organizational Management Organizational Model End of the navigation path .

Alternatively, you can specify the organizational settings in SAP TM again in Customizing for Transportation Management under Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Organizational Management Organizational Model Create Organizational Model End of the navigation path .

You must specify the following settings in SAP TM under your corporate organizational model:

All company organizations (company codes) in your corporate organization
An organization for your group logistics company, with an organizational unit function of Forwarding House.
You specify the group logistics company as a forwarding house because it has both a purchasing role and a selling role. It purchases transportation services from an outside carrier and sells transportation services to the other internal shipper companies in your corporation.
Enable the group logistics company organization as a group logistics company under Org. Data Detail Settings Group Logistics Company .

Organizational Settings for Internal Settlement

To create internal settlement documents in SAP TM and to transfer the internal settlement documents to SAP ERP, you must specify the following settings:

Customers in SAP ERP
You must create a customer in SAP ERP for each of the company organizations (company codes) that participate as internal shipper companies in the group logistics process.

For more information, see SAP Library for SAP ERP on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/erp. Choose a release and then Application Help. In SAP Library, choose SAP ERP Central Component Logistics Sales and Distribution (SD) Basic Functions and Master Data in SD Processing (SD-BF) Master Data in Sales and Distribution Customers and Business Partners Processing Customer Master Records .
Business partners in SAP TM
You must create the internal shipper companies as business partners in SAP TM.

For more information, see SAP Library for SAP Transportation Management on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/tm. Choose a release and then Application Help. In SAP Library, choose SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) Master Data Business Partner . You can find the relevant information under the Integration section
Assign business partners to company organizations in SAP TM
You must assign the business partner to a company organization (company code) in SAP TM. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under Master Data Organizational Management Organizational Model Change Organizational Model (transaction PPOME) . Enter the business partner under Org. Data Business Settings Business Partner of the relevant company organization.

More Information

Subject	See
How SAP TM assigns a party role code of Supplying Company or Receiving Company to identify the default agreement party for a stage	Party Role Codes in an OTR or DTR
SAP ERP prerequisite settings you must specify	SAP ERP Prerequisites for a Group Logistics Company Process
Explanation of where a group logistics process fits in a business process	Group Logistics Scenario
Detailed explanation of the group logistics process	Group Logistics Company Process