Events Based on Container Units

[arun_yesodharan]

Hello All ,

I have requirement to track the events based on the Container Units . I have gone through the documents available , one of them was mentioning about enhancing the freight unit to track container ID. This will be tracked on freight unit & will display container number as parameter and same event will be displayed multiple time per container.Tracking ID remains the freight unit.

However i need to track & create events at the Container Units itself. I am unable to understand which standard object should i be enhanced to achieve this functionality either it should be freight unit or shall it be transportation unit or resource.Or shall i use any available BADI to trigger & create any such event handler for tracking.

Business Scenario example sequence is --> load container on vessel --> vessel depart --> vessel arrives at port of discharge --> unload vessel .

TRXID : Booking

1. Vessel Departed from Port of Loading

2. Vessel Arrival at Port of Discharge

TRXID: Container Unit

1. Container Loaded on Vessel

2. Vessel Departed from Port of Loading

3. Vessel Arrival at Port of Discharge

4. Container Unloaded

The event reporting for vessel arrival & vessel departed will happen at Booking Level & these events need to be simultaneously reported at container unit as well. I believe this can be achieved by using TRACKREFERENCE in the BAPI/IDOC. Please correct me .

Any advise or suggestion would be really nice.

[rafael_cano_perez · Accepted solution]

Hi Arun

As far as I understand.

There is a new TOR document type ( I don't know from which TM release it is available ) which is the Transportation Unit. I guess you can model and plan Container Units as Transport Units, this means that you could get standalone TU planned and unexpected events and not just visibility on the related Freight Order / Freight Unit. I am not a TM expert though.

These Transportation Units have the same kind of EM integration configuration as the Freight Orders and Freight Units, namely trough the Application Object Types. But what they lack is the preconfigured SAP Visibility scenario ( like the ODT20, ODT30, ODT40, etc. ). This means that the configuration to interact with EM has to be build from scratch ( Function modules for expected event extractors, control, and info parameters extractors, etc )

Also the receiving part in EM has to be built, whin new Event Handler types, mapping profiles, rule sets, etc.

So what you want to achieve is possible, but you need some experienced EM consultant to build the whole solution.

Hope it helps, Regards.