TRANSPORTATION PLANNING POINT

It is an organizational unit which specifies group of people responsible for transportation activities .

SHIPPING TYPE PROCEDURE GROUP

This field is one of the parameter to determine shipment pricing procedure in shipment cost
document.
DEFINE TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION POINTS
It is a place where we load the goods (shipping point)
It is a place where we unload the goods (customers location)
It is a place where we unload the goods &load the goods (railway station, sea port, airport,
border crossing etc.)
TRANSPORTATION LEAD TIME
It is time taken to arrange the vehicles for dispatching it to customer.
Transit time and transportation lead time will help to perform delivery scheduling.

ROUTE DETERMINATION
Define transportation zones
Transportation zone is one of the parameter to determine route into sales document and
deliveries
MAINTAIN TRANSPORTATION RELEVANCE
This configuration step is prerequisite to create shipment document.
CONTROLS
1. Document category
This field controls the functioning of the document (shipment doc)
Here the document category for shipment document is 08
2. Shipment completion type
This field controls whether the shipment is inbound or outbound shipment. And it is also
controls whether it is loaded shipment or empty shipment.
3. Shipping type : w1
4. Service level: this field controls whether to group multiple delivers in to single shipment
or not.
Load: Single delivery
Groups: Multiple deliveries with single shipment.

For each delivery if you want to create separate shipment then maintain service level as
load.
If you want to combine multiple deliveries into single shipment then maintain service
level as group age.
5. Process Control :
Select process
6. Leg indicator
Same vehicle which got loaded with goods will deliver directly to the customer.
7. Adopt Route
This field controls whether to determine all the stages into shipment document or not.
Maintain adopt route as (dont adopt stages)
8. Determine legs
Leg determination according to departure point and destination point
9. Pick checks
While creating shipment document (shipment completion activity) if picking process is
not made in delivery than whether to give error message or not, it will be controlled by
this field. Mentions pick check as shipment completion only for full picking.
10. Split profile before planning
Split profile is the process of splitting the deliveries based on the truck capacity. We can
do split profile before planning activity & after planning activity.
11. Selection variant
Variant is used for collective shipment. Variant consists of the selection criteria to
execute collective processing of shipment. Variant will help to save the time of end user.
Who is executing the transaction?
12. Planning profile
This will help to compare the shipment cost in sales order itself.
13. Copy Routine : 9 standard
This field will help to copy the transportation relevant data from delivery document to
shipment document.
Activity profiles
Activity profile is doing the transitions automatically in the background while creating
shipment document or while saving shipment document.