casaewfQuestion: In SAP, what means shipping and Transportation?

What means Shipping point and Transportation Planning Point? What's the difference?
As we know, we need assign shipping point to plants. And assign Transportation Planning Point to
company code? What's relationship among them?
We create shipment based on outbound develiry or based on the shipping point or transportation
planning point? If all, How to acheive each one?

Ans: Shipping points are independent organizational entities within which processing and
monitoring of the deliveries as well as Goods issue happens
A delivery is always carried out from a single shipping point only
A Shipping point can be determined for each order item
Shipping point is managed directly under client level
Shipping point determination happens thro
a. Loading group of the materials from MMR
b. Shipping conditions from Sold to party
c. The delivering plant
In a nutshell if an item has to undergo delivery shipping point is must
Transportation Planning Point is an organizational unit in logistics responsible for planning and
processing transportation activities
It performs activities such as according to shipment type what is the mode of transport etc
Transportation Planning Point consists a group of employees responsible for managing the
transportation activities Each shipment is assigned to a specific Transportation Planning Point
You can define various Transportation Planning Point in SPRO for corporate structure before can be
used to perform transportation functions
Transportation Planning Point is an organizational unit in the transportation and it is mandatory while
creating a shipment document
This i think answers your qn no 1
Transportation planning point is assigned to company code and shipping point is an independent
organizational unit managed directly under client
The assignment of plant to shipping point is to inform the system that shipping can happen for the
materials of this plant from this shipping point
The boss for Transportation Planning Point is company code
The boss for shipping Point is Client
Hope this answers your qn no 2
Deliveries are created based on shipping point
shipments are created based on Transportation planning points
A shipment document can have multiple deliveries or group of delivery documents
Hope this answers your qn no 3
Shipping point:
Shipping point is an Independent organizational unit that performs shipping processing. You can
have many shipping points for a plant but delivery is possible through only one shipping point
Shipping point is determined based
1. Shipping Conditions (From Customer Master Data)
2. Loading Group (From Material Master Data)
3. Plant (Either from CMR or MM)
Transportation Planning point:
Transportation planning point is responsible for planning shipments. A Shipment is assigned to one
transportation planning point. It helps in determining the responsibility of transportation Processing
during which it can be used as selection criteria.to present list of shipments... one transportation
point is assigned for sea other for land and so on....
Difference: Shipping point is used for processing deliveries, picking and PGI. Transportation
planning point is responsible for next process of deliveries that is shipments.
List of deliveries are required for shipment process. Each shipment is allocated to Transportation
planning point for transportation planning. Its an integrated process.