This scope item supports your company´s transportation planning, execution, and monitoring in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
The purchase-order-based transportation demands (freight units) are built considering transportation constraints. Created freight units are planned using the transportation cockpit.
Charges for transporting the cargo are calculated based on rates maintained in a released freight agreement.
Relevant subcontracting status are reported based on the communication with the assigned carrier responsible for the execution of the transportation.
After the inbound delivery creation is triggered from the freight order based on the consolidation information, arrival and check-in of the truck is reported. The freight order gets the status that it is ready for warehousing; the physical unloading process can start.
Check-out and departure of the truck is reported to enable the posting of accruals.
After the confirmation of a freight order for posting, the system automatically posts the freight costs to financial accounting for accruals. During the posting process, freight orders can be monitored for errors during the posting process for resolution.
After putaway and goods receipt, a supplier invoice is created that contains the transportation costs paid to supplier.
Freight costs in the freight order are broken down. The aggregated freight costs of the order are shared to the delivery item level based on its gross weight.
The invoice received from the carrier is finally verified against the costs calculated in the freight order under freight settlement.
The Determination of Geocoding, Distances and Durations (46P) scope item is a prerequisite for this scope item. 46P contains necessary configurations steps to integrate with SAP HANA spatial services, which are described in the setup instruction guide for 46P. 46P requires the customer to purchase the services of HANA spatial services, which is described in 46P documentation.
This Scope item is used in the following way: