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 you create the sales order, you can choose between two different modes of transports: road or rail.
The sales-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.
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 the picking process is completed, the arrival and check-in of the truck is reported. After completing the physical loading process, the check-out and the departure of the truck is reported to enable the posting of accruals.
When the posting of the goods issue is done, the arrival of the mode of transport (truck or railcar) at the customer location is reported.
A billing document is created that contains the transportation costs to be billed to the customer.
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.
This scope item can be requested if the customer would like to implement order-based transportation consolidation, based on customer requirements.
This Scope item is used in the following way: