Intercompany scenario

[Former Member]

Dear SAP Gurus,

I have been asked to set up two company codes in our SAP TM server, both companies belong to the same corporation. The realtionship between them is as follows:

Company Code A

  - Buys raw material from vendors located out of the country

  - Manufacture products

  - Plans the transportation requirements (generated from PO and SO) and generates Freight Orders

  - Follows the execution of this FO

  - Settles this FO in order to pay the freight to its logistics provider.

  - The logistic provider is Company Code B

Company Code B

  - Takes care of the transportation requirements of Company Code A and some other customers

  - Finds carriers and assigns them to the FO / FWO

  - Bills the service to Customer

  - Pays to carriers

I want to solve this "intercompany" scenario in which

  Company Code A generates Transportation Requirements

  Company Code B takes care of them

  Company Code B bills to Company Code A

  Company Code B pays to the Carrier/Customs Agent

  Company Code A pays to Company Code B the logistics services (which is the cost of the services plus a surcharge)

I found one post (http://scn.sap.com/thread/3764919) that suggests to create FWO out of POs and FO but it seems to solve only the first 4 points in the above list.

Has anyone of you gone thru the same scenario?

Any help will be appreciated

- Hugo Italo

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

This sounds a lot like a Group Logistics Scenario

Group Logistics Company Process - Settlement - SAP Library

What may be different is having Company B manage transportation for "and some other customers" if those are external parties.  It should not be a problem to manage multiple internal customers according to the diagram.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you Jonathan, this Group Logistics Company Process Scenario fits in our requierment.

Regards!!

[former_member194808]

Dear Hugo,

Interesting discussion, as far as I know it is not possible to define company codes in TM. It looks like you can you use TM in a Shipper, LSP/Freight forwarder OR carrier scenario. If you have more than one of these scenario's it looks like it is getting complex. As far as I understood you would like to have the shipper scenario as well as the LSP/Freight Forwarder scenario. Maybe the only way to go is 2 TM systems???

To my opinion another limitation is the number of consolidation iterations if you only have one TM system. Let's suppose a scenario where all 3 parties are involved, a shipper, a LSP/Freight forwarder and a carrier and they all use a SAP TM system(so 3 systems), than the following consolidation iterations take place. First the Shipper consolidates it's transportation requirements in freighorders, the LSP/Freight forwarder enters these freight orders as forwarding orders. The transportation requirements from different shippers are consolidated in freightorders. These freightorders are outsourced to carriers. If the carrier also has a TM system these received freightorders are entered as Forwarding orders and later again consolidated to freightorders. So Due to the nature of the business you get several consolidation iterations. I believe that with one TM system the possibilities are limited. However I think this problem can be (partially) solved by using the following functionalities:

- Use of container units

- Use of package builder

- Re-enter the freightorder as forwarding order, manually or automatically in the same TM system

- Consolidate in ECC system

- Maybe define another process controller Strategy???

I also think that the freightunits for shippers, LSP's/freight forwarders and carriers are different. For a shipper the freigt unit can be a product, for a LSP/freight forwarder a pallet and for a carrier a container. Another concern I have is the transportation network, these are for all 3 parties different. If you want execute the shipper scenario as well as the carrier scenario in one TM system the Network might get very big. I think this may lead to performance issues.

But as you can read I also have a lot questions. Maybe another SAP Guru can elaborate on this topic.

Kind regards,

Benno Mateman