Transportation planning
In the previous chapter, we covered transportation management architecture and transportation requirements. This chapter covers the key aspects of transportation planning, which, in turn, maximizes logistics activity and brings profit to the organization. In transportation planning, two business documents are created – a freight unit and a freight order. Before these business documents are created, several constraints, including capacities, are considered with a view to optimizing the shipment processing process. Let's start with the freight unit document and understand how this document works and is processed in SAP TMS.
Freight unit
The planning process is broken down into different stages. Transportation requirements initiate the planning process, with a freight unit being the logical unit that groups together the items to be transported. The items in the freight unit stay together and are always transported together from the source to...
