Mass creation/change of Transportation Lanes (TM) (not EWM)

[beaufli]

Hello,

We are using Embedded TM in S/4 HANA 2020.
Somehow I am not able to find a proper method for mass maintenance of TM Transportation Lanes.

All information I've been able to find so far, whether by looking for IDocs or BApis in the system or via notes search and blogs, is about EWM Transportation Lanes it seems.

Indeed I found quite some references about BAPI_TRLSRVAPS_SAVEMULTI2 and IDoc TRLAPS_SAVEMULTIPLE202 for instance but the nodes structures of the bapi, in terms of carrier assignment to Transportation Lane, only point to BAPI11201TRMCARR2 which expect to provide carrier as location ID (and not as carrier BP).
Hence this looks to me more like the data you provide when using transaction code /SAPAPO/SCC_TL5 (SCM EWM module) (where you can assign TSP location ID) rather then the one expected when using transaction code /SCMTMS/TL5 (TM module) (where you can assign actual carrier BP nr and herewith can benefit from automatic carrier selection when planning freight orders in TM). These two transaction codes seem to create the same transportation lane header and means of transport nodes but different nodes in term of carrier assignment. And the ones created via /SAPAPO/SCC_TL5 (SCM EWM) do not seem to be useable in TM carrier selection...

Anyone ever managed to create Transportation Lanes (and thus assign Means of Transport AND carriers) in TM.
It seems odd to me, seeing the nr of instances to maintain that no other methods would be available other than the one provided in the transaction /SCMTMS/TL5 itself (tabs "Mass Maintenance") which only provides some collective maintenance feature and mostly copy options...

Thanks in advance

TSP assignment transaction /SAPAPO/SCC_TL5 (not useable in TM) (location ID)

Carrier assignment transaction /SCMTMS/TL5 (useable in TM) (carrier business partner)

[keerthana_nagaraj · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Scenario Builder - > You can use this TM application to download the templates for all kinds of master data (transportation lanes, zones). If you have the lane data (along with carrier) in a excel format, I believe Scenario builder would be most suitable for mass creation/update.

You could give this alternative a try to see if this suits your scenario.

Best Regards,

Keerthana

[beaufli · Accepted solution]

Hi Keerthana,

Thank you very much for this input. The scenario builder suits my requirements perfectly, and beyond. I will most certainly keep using it for many other objects.

Krgds

Lionel

[hitaloc1971 · Accepted solution]

Hello keerthana_nagaraj

I read the help documentation and it says it is only for test environments. Have you tried this scenario builder in a productive environment?

Thanks!