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Planning and
Enhanced
Optimization
Usability
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Development Topics – Enhanced Integration
Company Code in OP Real-time visibility with LBN B2B interface – Carrier Automatic Change
Invoice Management Process for
§ Company Code is enabled on § Tour Tracking
Freight Document (FO/FB/SO)
Settlement
– Initiate tracked process § Handling Carrier Invoices with
relevant for subcontracting by TransportationOrderGenericT resolution base charges § Reverse and repost for already
rackedProcessRequest_Out settled documents after changes
§ Company code derived from § User Interface Changes (POWL,
– Receive event updates of charge lines in the order
Purchasing org and in central Carrier Invoice UI)
by TransportationEventBulkNotifi
procurement scenarios, can be cation_In
input on the Freight document
§ Enhanced Subcontracting
checks
Consignment Order Error handling in EDI (Un)loading Point Unified Package Builder
§ A Consignment is a new processing § Harmonized (un)loading point for § new generic packaging layer by
document type which allows the § Saving faulty data in Freight Order all involved applications providing a unified packaging
logical grouping of a set of – Faulty Material Number builder API to consume - based
Freight Units/items in terms on parameters – packaging
– Faulty Business Partner number
e.g. Carrier master data and rules from the
§ Can be created by webservice /
applications EWM, TM or LO
manual – Faulty References
Distribution of Freight Order Extended Freight Unit Error Handling and Error Data Integration to Logistics
with Carrier for external Determination in ASN Resolution § Shipping Notification
Planning § FU determination with Loading § Improved Error Handling for – Deviating Supplier
Point – Extended Material Management
§ Update Handler, Freight Order Reference Errors to Freight Units (JIT/JIS, HU, Batches, Serial
creation from outside with aut. /Consignments Numbers)
Consignment determinatoin
§ Auxiliary Package Material
Unified Package Package Building and Load Planning and Load Scheduling and Transportation Cockpit
Building Package Units Consolidation Automatic Planning and Manual Planning
§ Suppress consolidation of § Build only full single-product § Condition to determine § Manual Planning with
§ Create PDF File for Load
product items with different pallets whether delivery activity must Consignment Orders
Plan Including 3D Image
warehouse or loading point start or end in the given time § Extended selection criteria
§ New parameter for package § New load planning rule to window and selection profiles
building for inbound and outbound minimize the number of
§ New user interface with
demands § Warehouse loading stops in
stacks in the cargo space tabular and Gantt chart road freight order list and
§ Auxiliary packaging items § Process consignment based information to analyze requirement document
results by scheduling (stage) lists
§ Aggregate equivalent full-quantity orders indirectly and directly
algorithm
package items in the packaging § Lists provide warehouse
§ New parameter to define time
hierarchy into one package item processing status and
constraint for consecutive handling execution status
stages as hard or soft
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Development Topics – Miscellaneous
Collaboration in Freight Settlement Carrier Collaboration: Manage Data Aging and Archiving for
Dispute Management Freight Agreement RFQs Freight Agreement RFQs
§ Send out dispute case information associated § Monitor freight agreement RFQs by status § Maintain the residence periods for data aging
with a dispute case in Transportation and archiving freight agreement requests for
Management to partner either by email or § Respond to freight agreement RFQs with their quotation (RFQs) specifically for each freight
printout, or by using an enterprise service rates using Microsoft Excel agreement RFQ type
§ View, sort, and filter freight agreement RFQs in
a worklist based on different criteria
§ Submit the responses to the freight agreement
RFQs
Business Network
Current Solution
SAP S/4HANA
Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)
Challenges
ü Lack of harmonization
• Complex integration between Transportation
Management (TM) and Extended Warehouse ü Lack of user-friendliness
Management with many business objects
ü High susceptibility to errors due to the large number of
• (e.g. Transportation Unit object: extra business object redundant objects: Transportation Unit – Freight Order
in EWM that corresponds to the Freight Order in TM)
integration issues in almost every customer escalation
• Each system has own non-harmonized freight ü Integrations require additional development effort
documents and uses different user interfaces
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TM and EWM Integration: Advanced Shipping and Receiving
Reduce data redundancy by removing the Transportation Unit Object
SAP S/4HANA
Freight Warehouse
Freight Order
Unit Freight Order Request
Extended
Warehouse
Shipping & Handling Management
Receiving Unit (EWM)
Transportation
Management (TM)
SAP S/4HANA
Warehouse Handling
Freight Request Unit
Freight Order
Unit Freight Order
FO S&R View Synchronization
Shipping &
Receiving Shipping &
Transportation Receiving
Management (TM)
Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)
Consignments/
Outbound Component Parts Inbound
ASN
§ Consignment is a new
object in TM:
Group of freight / deliveries Stop 1 Stop 2
with the same source and
destination location
Consignment Consignment Consignment
Supplier 1 Supplier 2 Supplier 3
§ (Un)loading point (group
of doors) is passed from FU FU FU FU FU FU FU FU FU
TM via LE to EWM
Example Situation:
EWM RF Menue
Lab Preview
EWM Fiori App Change Inbound Deliveries
Lab Preview
User actions:
§ Door assignment
§ Ready for warehouse processing
§ Unloading
Advanced Shipping & Receiving UI § Goods receipt
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Advanced Shipping &
Receiving
Process & Object Overview
System Interfaces
Objects Relations
Overview on E2E Process Flow UI - Objects Relations
2 7
Purchasing
Document
Call-Off
To Supplier Selling
Selling Document Delivery
Delivery
3 9
Document
8
HU Consignment Consignment
FU Preview
ASN to Customer
11
FU 1 FU Determination
FU 1
FU 1 3 & Adjustment
FU 1 10
1 PKG Item
PKG Item
PKG Item
FU 2
FU 2 FU 2 10
PKG Item
PKG Item FU 2 LE Inbound Delivery EWM ID
FU 3 PKG Item
FU 3
HU HU
FU .. 4 PKG Item
FU ..
10
PKG Item 8 10 LE Inbound Delivery EWM ID
Consignment Consignment
ASN to Customer
4 HU HU
assign
FU 3 FU 3
5 11
7 PKG Item
FU ..
PKG Item
Supplier Customer
BORDERO Nr. as
Transport Ext. ID Shipment (Bordero)
SLB
SLB
SLB
DLV DLV
Shipment Shipment
SLB Nr. as Inbound SLB Nr. as Inbound
(Consignment) (Consignment) SHPMNT IDOC Delivery Group
Delivery Group
DLRVY DLRVY
IDOC IDOC
SAP LE-TRA SAP LE-TRA
SLB
Supplier Customer
Consignment 1
FU FU FU
Consignment 2
FU FU FU
FU FU FU FU FU FU FU FU FU FU FU FU
Delivery (EDL20)
delivery note
Freight Order
Consignment 1
FU FU FU FU FU FU
Consignment 2
Consignment 1
Supplier Customer
Freight Unit
FU FU FU FU FU FU Freight Unit FU FU FU FU FU FU
Multi-pick/multi-drop
• Same truck able to unload and load at the
same location during a multi-stop route with
only one business object
• Better usage of transport capacity, lower cost,
Pick Drop Pick Drop
lower CO2 footprint
Cross warehouse
loading/unloading
• Load/unload from IM and EWM managed
warehouses on the same truck: possible to assign
different warehouse systems into one loading point
• Faster processing times
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