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Exciting product updates coming your way for Transportation Management in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2408.
Integration of Returns Purchase Orders with
Transportation Management
With this feature you can integrate returns purchase orders with Transportation Management. This allows you to perform transportation planning, monitor the execution, and settle the freight costs for a returns purchase order as part of the Return to Supplier process (scope item BMK).
Configuration
You need to configure the integration of returns purchase orders with Transportation Management using the following configuration activities:
Define Logistics Integration Profile
For returns purchase orders, you must create a logistics integration profile. To do this, you can copy an existing logistics integration profile, such as S003 (manual planning) or S004 (external planning), and adapt it as required.
Define Transportation-Relevance of Purchasing Documents
You activate the integration of returns purchase orders into TM by assigning the control key 0058 and the logistics integration profile that you created in the Define Logistics Integration Profile activity to a combination of the required purchasing organization, and purchasing group.
Currently Transportation management for returns purchase orders is not integrated with Warehouse Management.
Integration of Returns Purchase Orders with
Transportation Management - Demo
Check out this short demo featuring the configuration steps and the process from our Early Release Webinar 2408:
Delivery Deletion Initiated from Transportation Management
You can delete inbound, outbound, and customer returns deliveries in Logistics Execution (LE) from the Manage Freight Units app in Transportation Management (TM).
If a freight unit has been assigned to a freight order or freight booking, you must remove this assignment before you can delete the delivery.
Enhancements for Consignment Orders in the
Outbound Process
With this feature, you can benefit from an improved handling of consignment orders and consignment order documents in the outbound process.
In particular, the following improvements have been made:
Execution status as an indicator for creating and deleting consignment order documents
When the execution status of the freight order is set to Ready for Transportation Execution, the system automatically creates a corresponding consignment order document for each of the local consignment orders. These business documents can be accessed from the Document Flow tab or the Items tab of the freight order.
- When you add freight units to the freight order after the execution status Ready for Transportation Execution has been reached, a consignment order document is created by the system for these freight units.
- When you change back the execution status of the freight order from Ready for Transportation Execution to Not Ready for Transportation Execution, the system deletes the consignment order document, and the consignment order exists again only locally in the freight order.
No further changes allowed after sending of ASN or checkout of freight order
When an advanced shipping notification (ASN) has been sent or when the freight order has been checked out at the source location (checkout status value of handling execution status has been set), you can't unassign freight units from the consignment order or cancel the consignment order document anymore. To be able to do so, you must first undo the goods issue for the corresponding delivery and revoke the checkout.
Deletion of the consignment order after removal of assignment to freight order
If you unassign a consignment order from a freight order, the freight units are automatically unassigned from the consignment order and the consignment order is deleted. If the freight units are replanned to the freight order later, the system creates a new consignment order document for them.
Freight Cost Calculation based on Material Freight Group and Transportation Group
With this feature, you can calculate transportation charges in a freight order or freight booking based on a material freight group and transportation group.
Maintain freight rates based on the material freight group and transportation group in the freight agreement during negotiations with the carrier. Also, consider the material freight group and transportation group for the respective freight documents in the freight cost calculation after creation of freight agreement.
Billing of Freight Cost for Batch-Managed Material
For transportation management scenarios that are initiated from a sales document, the freight cost of the freight document can be taken into account when the corresponding billing document is created. This functionality is also available for batch-managed materials now.
Refinement of Freight Settlement Initiation for Advanced Intercompany Processes
Freight order does not contain an "own" location [e.g. in advanced intercompany sales scenario with (internal) incoterm CIF, where the freight order of the selling organization relates to the transport from port of destination to the customer location].
Freight orders automatically qualify for freight cost confirmation and settlement process as soon as the departure from the source location of relevant stage is reported.
Enhancement of the Form Data Provider for the WAYBILL Output Type
The Form Data Provider of the Output Type ‘WAYBILL’ was extended with details on the Shipper’s Contact and Container Number.
Form Data provider for the WayBill Output Type is extended with the following attributes:
- Container Details:
- Container Number
- Container Country/Region
- Shipper Contact Number
- Shipper’s E-mail
- Shipper’s Phone
- Shipper’s Mobile Phone
- Shipper’s Fax
Third-Party Warehouse Management with Transportation Management - Advanced Integration Scenario
Support integrated logistics processes with a third-party warehouse management system (Scope Item 1ZQ) and transportation planning and execution (Scope Items 6W1, 6W2, 6W3).
The improvements:
- Ability to distribute outbound or inbound deliveries that are integrated with transportation management to a connected, third-party warehouse management system.
- Subsequent changes to deliveries after they were distributed to the third-party warehouse management system.
Warehouse Outbound Processing with External Transportation Planning - Advanced Integration Scenario
Support integrated logistics processes with Warehouse Management (Scope Item 3BS) and transportation planning in an external Transportation Management System (Scope Item 6W1).
The following was enhanced:
- Enable integration with Warehouse Management, if freight units are distributed and planned in a connected external transportation management system.
Task Tutorials + Learning Content for Transportation Management with 2408 Release
New task tutorials and updated learnings to showcase an end-to-end scenario in Transportation Management for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. Check them out:
- Main Learning Package
Getting Insights into SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, Transportation Management
Implementing SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, Transportation Management
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