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This blog will give you an overview of our recent release in SAP Business Network for Logistics. It is intended for shippers and solution owners, carriers, and data providers as well as sales and presales colleagues who already have a detailed understanding of SAP Business Network for Logistics.
The 2502 release brough three exciting features for shippers and carriers related to the settlement process in SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration:
- New invoice processing settings for seamless submission after dispute
- Share SAP Transportation Management invoice status
- Add VAT ID or Tax ID as document reference
However, let’s start with a cross-solution topic.
Cross SAP Business Network for Logistics
The Project44 unified API now supports road FTL tracking. For details see Configuration and Application Guide for project44 Add-Ons.
SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration
Performance monitoring through integration with SAP Cloud ALM
Performance monitoring helps IT administrators, identify and resolve critical issues related to end user performance and provides transparency in the actual performance experienced by end users.
SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration is now integrated with SAP Cloud ALM to support centralized performance monitoring. You can use the ‘Real User Monitoring’ app provided by SAP Cloud ALM to measure all real user requests from dispute, tracking, and dock appointment applications.
For more information, please refer to:
Contracting: View aggregated dangerous goods information
Carriers can now view aggregated dangerous goods information in the detail pages even when the ordering party has used business add-in (BAdI) in their external system. Dangerous goods information is available in the following apps: ‘Freight Requests for Quotation’, ‘Freight Orders for Confirmation’, ‘Confirm Freight Bookings (Air)’, ‘Confirm Freight Bookings (Ocean)’.
The aggregation has led to the following enhancements:
- Duplicate dangerous goods information (e.g. on different component levels) only show once
- Dangerous goods information is aggregated e.g. for a container that contains different packages and products out of which some are dangerous goods
Dock Appointment Scheduling: Show status and reschedule grouped appointments
In the Manage Dock Appointments and Self-Book Dock Appointments apps, shippers and carriers can now see the status of a grouped appointment and reschedule the same.
Dock Appointment Scheduling: Display reference documents by priority
If there are several reference documents available for an appointment in the ‘Self-Book Dock Appointments’ app, the reference documents are now displayed following a priority sequence. If available, freight order is prioritized over yard order over transportation unit appointment.
To view all reference document types, open the appointment details and navigate to the ‘Reference Document’ tab.
Dock Appointment Scheduling: API supports display of preferred slots
The ‘Provider API for Dock Appointment Scheduling’ now supports the display of preferred slots in the ‘Manage Dock Appointments’ and ‘Self-Book Dock Appointments’ apps. Before, preferred slots were only supported with the TransportationOrderRequest message.
For more information see Provider API for Dock Appointment Scheduling.
Dock Appointment Scheduling: Slot was renamed from ‘Preferred’ to ‘Acceptable’
In the ‘Self-Book Dock Appointments’ app the slots preferred by shipper, were renamed from ‘Preferred’ to ‘Acceptable’.
Settlement: New invoice processing settings for seamless submission after dispute
With this new feature we help ensure carriers get paid faster, as carriers can decide how they want to handle invoices after dispute resolution.
Carriers can now select how to process the invoice after dispute resolution. There are three options:
- Submit directly to your ordering party.
- Navigate to the invoice e.g. to add an attachment and submit then.
- Reject the invoice and create an entirely new one with changes in charges or charge types.
Upon first submission of a new dispute in the “Manage Disputes” application after the 2502 feature release, the carrier will get a message in the header section explaining the status of the invoice after dispute resolution.
There is also a link to change the “Invoice Process Settings”. There will be three options:
- “Submitted to your ordering party”
The agreed charges will be updated in the invoice according to the amounts accepted in the dispute and it will automatically be submitted to your shipper.
- “Ready for submission”
The agreed charges will be updated and the invoice will be set to status ‘ready for submission’. The invoice still needs to be submitted to the shipper. Choose this option when you want to update taxes or cancel the invoice.
- “Rejected”
Initial invoice is set to status ‘Rejected’. Go back to the freight document to create a new invoice. Choose this option when you need to change charge codes or add charges.
Please note that the default processing of invoices created via API is different. Upon dispute resolution, these invoices go to status ‘rejected’. Carriers still have the option to select one of the three ‘Invoice Processing Settings’, though.
Following the above changes, the following new message types are now available for the settlement disputes scenario:
- TransportationDisputeCaseNotification_Out (Dispute Case Notification to Shipper System)
- TransportationDisputeCaseNotification_In (Dispute Case Notification from Shipper System)
Settlement: Share SAP Transportation Management invoice status
This feature will allow better visibility of the entire end to end invoice integration. The carriers will be able to know when the invoice got created in the shipper backend system, when it is being processed or when the invoice gets rejected.
The feature can be utilized by shippers by means of implementing a new SOAP message:
https://me.sap.com/notes/3557909/E
Settlement: Add VAT ID or Tax ID as document references
VATID and TAXID have been added as new document types, thus enabling carriers to share their VAT/tax ID via the document reference functionality.
To enable this feature, shippers need to enable the functionality to send reference documents.
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The above summarizes the key innovations for 2502. We hope you enjoy the new capabilities. Thanks for reading the blog post and stay tuned!
A full overview of the 2502 release can be found under the following link.
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For further questions and feedback related to the blog, please check the Q&A area and feel free to post your questions in the link with the tag SAP Business Network for Logistics.
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