Changing the carrier in a Freight Order

[t_jungesblut75]

Hello experts,

Some of our customers have an ID for certain Carriers, with which we can login into the carriers service portal to register the customers freight. The customer can then pay the carrier directly without involving us further.

In the Business partner of the customer we entered that ID, the customer has for that specific carrier, as a partner description in the partner functions. The result is, that the Partner description (and therefore the ID) gets carried over into the Sales Order as well as the Delivery.

We now face the problem, that Freight Units and Freight Orders have no option to read the partner description and therefore can't know or change the ID. If it becomes apparent during the processing of the Freight Order, that the carrier has to change, the carrier will be changed in the Freight Order. Changing the carrier in the Freight Order, however, will not change the carrier in the delivery. The change is exclusive to the Freight Order and will not be communicated to other documents.

Is there a way to communicate changes to the carrier from the Freight Order to other Documents?

Is our way to carry over the mentioned ID (using the partner description in the business partner) the best way to do so or are there other methods available which could solve our other problem regarding carrier changes?

Regards,

Tim

[former_member809312]

Yes a code is need to updated the delivery and sales order.

Technical speak you need to right a code for that.

[former_member809312]

The strategy is to updated between TM documents only NOT to Sales order or Outbound Delivery.

The link give you some examples what this strategy updated.

If you're in SAP TM embedded them you can do a development using the process controller to archive it and updated the Sales Order/deliveries etc.

[t_jungesblut75]

Does there already exist an action or strategy to update the Delivery or would that involve coding? Would it even be possible to rewrite a strategy in a way so that it can update the carrier of a delivery, according to what has been selected in a freight order?

[former_member809312]

Hi Tim,

which version you're on SAP TM?

By the standard SAP TM updated some values between TM documents from FO to FU/OTR/DTR using the Strategy DEF_CHACO not to SO/OD.

Refers link bellow:

Change Controller | SAP Help Portal

Kind regards

Rogerio

[t_jungesblut75]

thanks. We are using S4HANA On Premise 2020 - SP Stack 04 (05/2022).

If I understand you correctly, switching to the strategy DEF_CHACO would solve the problem?