
Order-Based Transportation Consolidation – Inbound (5VV)
This scope item supports your company´s transportation execution and monitoring in SAP S/4HANA Cloud in connection with a decentralized transportation management system.
When creating the purchase order, the user can choose between two different mode of transports: road or rail.
The purchase-order-based transportation demand (freight unit) is built considering transportation constraints and is sent to a decentralized transportation management system for planning.
The planning result (freight order) is received in S/4HANA Cloud from the decentral planning system. The transportation charges for transporting the cargo is calculated (in the S/4 HANA Cloud) for the freight order based on rates maintained in a released freight agreement which is maintained in the S/4 HANA Cloud system. Alternatively, if the decentralized transportation management system is calculating the freight cost for the freight , they can be received in the S/4 HANA Cloud system along with the planning result.
The inbound delivery creation is triggered from the freight order based on the consolidation information.
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.
After putaway and goods receipt, a supplier invoice is created that contains the transportation costs paid to Supplier.
Freight orders are checked out to enable the posting of accruals. The freight orders can then be confirmed for accrual posting.
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 any errors during the posting process to resolve them.
The invoice received from the carrier is finally verified against the costs calculated in the freight order.
For stage-based invoicing, multiple invoices can be received from different carriers for different stages.
Key Process Steps Covered
- Create Purchase Order
- Monitor Freight Units
- Monitor Freight Orders
- Trigger Delivery Creation
- Set Truck/Railcar Arrived and Checked-In
- Set Ready for Warehousing
- Set Truck/Railcar Checked-Out and Departed
- Confirm Freight Order for Accrual Posting
- Confirm Quantities for Putaway
- Post Goods Receipt
- Create Supplier Invoice
- Perform Carrier Settlement
Benefits
- Support your company's transportation planning and execution in SAP S/4HANACloud
- Reduce freight costs with early transportation planning capabilities based on freight orders
- Get fewer delivery changes during logistics execution with late delivery creation based on transportation plan and close to warehouse activities
Additional Information
- This scope item is excluded from the default activation
This scope item can be requested if the customer would like to implement order-based transportation consolidation, based on customer requirements.
Where is Order-Based Transportation Consolidation – Inbound(5VV) being used?
This Scope item is used in the following way:
- As a core function of Delivery and Transportation within Supply Chain Scope Item Group