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Planned Disassembly to Enable Transportation in SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management

AtulGokhale
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
‎2024 Mar 26 9:38 AM
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During my Transportation Management implementation at a major Heavy Engineering company, manufacturing Trains, Trams and Buses, I came across the special needs in this Industry. One of the challenges was "How to deliver an entire Tram / Train manufactured in EU to the customer in Australia? Especially when the entire Train has to be first manufactured and Tested in EU and only then can be Transported and delivered to the customer. Before commissioning the Train it needs to be Tested and fine tuned once more. 

In SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing area, Extended Production Engineering and Operations (PEO) module supports the process for "Planned Disassembly for Transportation". Below is the URL from the help documentation.

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/9c4986bda35f4840ae438960ffbef64d/20d0902c570748dfb78...

Below you can see the Business Situation:

Situation1.png

  • What is delivered and billed to the end customer is the "Factory Tested Finished Unit", so consider it as the Finished Material.
  • The Composition of the Finished Material has a Locomotive and several Rail Cars, each of them big enough to consume one special Truck/Trailer respectively.
  • Multimodal Transportation (Road, Ocean, Road) will be the preferred way to deliver the unit to Australia.
  • Transport costing, documentation for customs etc needs to be accurate.
  • Before the Transportation starts the Finished Unit is fully assembled and Tested in the Factory, which means there needs to be a further step to break it down (Planned Disassembly) which incurs additional manpower, time and cost.
  • After the Transportation is over there needs to be another "Assembly" process to make a Finished Unit which can be tested again and commissioned, which again incurs additional manpower, time and cost.

  Form a process perspective it can be described as shown below:

Situation 2.png

In PEO additional material for disassembly and adjustment in BOM and Routing required. 

Certain TM integration aspects needs to be carefully considered:

  • Delivery Integration
  • Freight Unit representing each of the delivery item

 

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