Create Freight orders in background (TM Embedded basic shipping scenario)

[jemco01]

Hello to all,

I'm currently working on a S/4HANA greenfield implementation (1809).

I have been asked by my customer if there is a possibility to create freight orders out of freight units (1 to 1) in TM (embedded / basic shipping scenario).

I have checked online help on the various freight orders creation procedures:

https://help.sap.com/viewer/e3dc5400c1cc41d1bc0ae0e7fd9aa5a2/1809.002/en-US/14a4c6617d904a3686f5c00b...

I also performed some analysis on my side on the various transactions that can be used for background processing purposes and this is the results of my own analysis:

Transaction /SCMTMS/BACKGRD_PLAN (Run Planning) is not compatible with basic shipping for it uses a "planning profile" ("TM advanced" feature).
Transaction /SCMTMS/DSO_BATCH (Convert Freight Units for Direct Shipment) is also not possible to use in a basic shipping scenario for it requires "carrier selection settings" also part of advanced TM.

Is my analysis correct? If yes, how can we achieve the customer's requirement?

Best regards,

Jean-Marie

[former_member203115]

I have been told by SAP that the Basic TM functionality (as opposed to Advanced) in embedded TM 1809 only includes manual creation of freight orders - no background jobs. I see several ways to create freight orders manually - using the create FO tile, the FO worklist, or using the follow-on functions in a freight unit (which, so far as I know invokes only the default FO type). Bottom line: your options are extremely limited and SAP intentionally does not allow any automatic creation. Therefore the background job and direct shipment (DSO) options you cite would not be allowed.

At least this is my experience. Sorry I can't provide more encouragement

Mac McLarin

[jemco01 · Accepted solution]

Hello to all,

Coming back late on the topic but we had confirmation from TM Product Owner that configuration mentioned previously (assign a freight order type in the freight unit building rule - called also "shortcut scenario") can be used in Basic Shipping scenario. This won't fit with every customer's requirement but it's good to know you can use this customizing option without falling into "advanced" TM scenario.

Best regards and again, thanks for your answers,

Jean-Marie

[junnan_li]

Per SAP latest information, shortcut scenario is only supported in Advanced TM license. Please find the statement at page 7 in the attachment of below note.

3065464 - Definition: Basic Shipping vs basic Transportation Management vs advanced Transportation Management

[rajlakma87]

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3065464

the above link is not opening, can you please provide updated link to access.

[junnan_li]

https://me.sap.com/notes/3065464

However, it's probably that only contracted S-user can open it in 'SAP for Me'.

[jemco01]

Hi Preeti & William,

Thanks a lot for your feedback and answers. We are currently working on another solution suggested by the partner working on this project: As the flow is quite simple meaning: 1 delivery note --> 1 Freight Unit --> 1 Freight order --> 1 Freight settlement document, we are considering the option to put directly a freight order type in the freight unit building rule instead of a freight unit type. This will allow us to bypass a step that is not really meaningful for the flow we wanted to set up.

First tests looked quite promising but unfortunately seems this "shortcut scenario" is not part of basic Shipping…

Best regards,

Jean-Marie

[former_member603396]

Hi Jean,

Can you please check if you can achieve your requirement using the standard Outbound Interface /SCMTMS/CO_CPX_TOR_GN_RQ_OUT to create Freight Units and standard Inbound Interface /SCMTMS/II_CPX_TOR_GN_RQ_IN to create the Freight Order from Freight unit.

Thanks.