Transportation zone determination

[former_member1220769]

Hi,

We base freight upon a transportation zone/shipping point/currency combination and for that I needed to created a new transportation zone "A".

I expected that I needed to update the customer masterdata as well, but during testing the transportation zone and related freight charges were determined anyway.

So, the outcome is ok (I need transportation zone A), but the question is how is the transportation zone determined if nothing is entered in a CMIR or in the customer masterdata.

• I checked for Customer material info records, but none are available.
• Both sold-to an ship-to contain no transportation zone.
• When adding a random transportation zone (B/C or D) in the customer, the related freight is determined (as expected)

Many thanks for  your assistance.

Peter

[moazzam_ali · Accepted solution]

Hi

Please check and study SAP help documents/SCN threads/F1 help of fields that how transportation zone is determined. There are many links, documents available on this in Google search.

Thank$

[former_member1220769 · Accepted solution]

Hi MoazzaM,

Correct. I have read them and route determination is mostly explained. I'm not convinced my answer is in those threads.

As far as transportation zone is concerns, the threads/links/comments all point out towards customer master (ship-to) or customer master info record.

I checked those and they are empty/not existing. If there is another way in which transportation zones are determined, please let me know. Thanks.

Peter

[VeselinaPeykova · Accepted solution]

Do you also get a route determined automatically in the outbound delivery without maintaining any master data?

Or you get some transportation zone unexpectedly populated in the shipment costing process only?

Please show some screenshot where you see this zone determined without having it in the master data.

Do you have by any chance any custom formulas in the pricing procedure?

Some companies rely heavily on user exits in shipment costing/transportation processing - have you already eliminated this possibility?

[former_member1220769 · Accepted solution]

Hi Veselina,

In our system, the route is already determined in the sales order. Shipping conditions, weight group, transportation group all in place.

Regarding the TZ determination:

• the zone itself is not showing up in the partner overview in the SO, so that is ok/as expected (since its not filled in the cust.md).
• BUT freight is determined. When analyzing the price determination, It shows that it finds a condition record where transportation zone is used as a key.

You make a good point regarding enhancements. I will investigate that as well.

Thank you for the feedback.

[VeselinaPeykova · Accepted solution]

Route determination:

If you get a route determined automatically in the sales order and you have no transportation zone maintained in the master data - definitely check for custom logic. Also you may check in 0VRF for entries with LZONE = ' '. This is another possible reason to get unexpected route determination.

Freight calculation:

Do you refer to shipment cost document or to freight conditions determined in an order/outbound delivery?

If you create another transportation zone as a copy of the first and do not set it in the customer master, but create a valid condition record with a different price - which condition would be determined - this is what is bugging me .

[moazzam_ali · Accepted solution]

Hi

It can be analyzed by checking condition analysis screen and by checking whether transportation zone field is filled in table and if yes then I have feelings that there could be some userexit or something that is causing this.

Thank$

[former_member1220769 · Accepted solution]

Hi Veselina,

It was confirmed by a developer, there is a enhancement active that takes the transportation zone directly from the TZ config table linked to the ship-to country.

Thank you for the input.

Peter

[VeselinaPeykova · Accepted solution]

Hello,

thank you for providing the input.

This could be a potentially problematic coding in certain cases.

Please ensure that the key users are aware of this custom logic when providing master data for upload to prevent issues with undesirable transportation zone determination in the documents.

[former_member1220769 · Accepted solution]

yes, will do. thank you for the heads up.