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Function documentationDefinition of Physical Properties

 

You use this function to specify the capacity requirement of a vehicle resource or transportation unit resource during transportation.

Prerequisites

  • You have created a resource. For more information, see Creating Handling, Vehicle, and Calendar Resources.

  • If you want to use packaging materials as a template for the dimensions Volume and Weight, and for a dimensionless capacity, you have to have defined packaging materials in the product master (see Product).

Features

You can specify the capacity requirement with a unit of measure for multiple dimensions. For dimensionless capacities, you can specify multiple values.

You can use a packaging material as template for the dimensions Volume and Weight, and for dimensionless capacity. If the packaging material specifies values for volume, weight, or capacity the system automatically transfers these values into the physical properties of the resource. Here, you can overwrite the values that have been transferred automatically.

Activities

You specify or change the physical properties on the SAP Easy Access screen or in SAP NetWeaver Business Client by choosing on the Change Resources: Header Data screen the Phys. Properties (Physical Properties) tab page.

Example

To define how much volume a container needs on a ship, you specify physical properties for the dimension Volume.