Carrier selection and tendering
Carrier selection is used to determine the perfect combination of carrier assignment-based costs, priority, equipment availability, and business share selection. This is also covered in the Profiles section of this chapter. The carrier is assigned to the freight order once the planning run is executed. The planning run can be executed manually or automatically. SAP has provided a planning strategy, TSPS_DEF, for the carrier selection profile. You assign this strategy as shown in Figure 10.27:
Figure 10.27 – Carrier selection profile
You can activate the incompatibilities for the carrier selection, if there are any. The carrier selection profile considers other settings that are important when setting up the carrier selection profile, and these are listed here:
- Cost and Priority: The carrier can be determined on the basis of costs arising from transportation charge management or planning costs. The strategy options...
