Transportation chain (Rail + Road)

[Former Member]

Hi,

Pls. ans my question below.

A to B by Rail. Shipment 1(will it be Main leg or Preliminary leg?)

B to C by Road Shipment 2(will it be main leg or subsequent leg?)

I know the process of preliminary leg(road) -main leg(rail)- subsequent leg(road). but confused in case of two modes of rail and road.

awaiting your valuable inputs.

Rgds

Abhilash

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Abhilash,

Legs

Preliminary leg:

A subsequent main leg shipment exists or is required for this shipment.

Subsequent leg:

A preceding main leg shipment exists or is required for this shipment.

Main leg:

One or more preliminary and subsequent shipment legs are required for this shipment.

Direct leg:

No other shipments are linked to this shipment.

Return leg:

Means of transport is returning to its base.

Dependencies

The leg indicator at leg level is influenced by the leg indicator in

the header and automatic leg determination:

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Thanks and Regards,

Sateesh.Kandula

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

HI,

can some one tell how to configure the rail + road scenario using transportaion chain? Assuming A to B by rail and B to C by road.

Pls. elaborate on Transpotation connection points and legs to be maintained.

Regards

Abhilash

[Former Member]

Hi Abilash

This type of leg determination forms a preliminary leg for each point of departure and a subsequent leg for each destination point. It can be used if a transportation chain is to be set up within a shipment document.

Leg indicator

Effect

‘4’ (direct leg) or ‘5’ (return leg):

The entire shipment process appears in one shipment document. The shipment document is not related to any other shipments.

‘1’ (preliminary leg) ‘2’ (main leg) or ‘3’ (subsequent leg):

This shipment is part of a transportation chain that is reflected in multiple shipment documents.

This information is important because, as in the case of a preliminary leg shipment, for example, the deliveries are not to be delivered directly to the customer, but to another destination where they are then transferred to the main shipment.

A delivery is brought by truck from shipping point ‘0001’ to Hamburg harbor as a preliminary leg shipment. The delivery is loaded onto a ship in Hamburg harbor. The ship then transports the delivery from Hamburg harbor to New York harbor (main leg). The delivery is then transferred once again and is shipped by train to customers in Chicago (subsequent leg).

For the preliminary shipment, the destination is not the customer in Chicago, but Hamburg harbor. A dialog box appears during leg determination that asks you to enter the destination. If the main leg shipment was created beforehand in the system, Hamburg is automatically taken as a default.

If a destination was entered, the original destination is replaced by the new one in all deliveries. If this does not occur, leg determination is terminated.

The same is valid for a subsequent leg shipment (leg indicator value ‘3’ in the shipment header), except that the point of departure for the deliveries is replaced by the destination harbor from the main leg, as an example.

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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/93/743f46546011d1a7020000e829fd11/frameset.htm

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[Former Member]

I have gone through those links and aware of the process of preliminary(road) -main leg (ship or rail)- subsequent leg (road).

I need help in Rail plus Road shipment thts it.

Rgds

Abhilash

[Former Member]

Hi Abilash

The same process u follow for road or rail. Its not different. The process is the same.

Regards

[Former Member]

Hi

I have the same issue.

I require only 2 legs in a transportation chain.

I maintain 2 shipments

1) Prelim leg

2) a main leg.

When I process the shipments the delivery still has transportation status 'b'.

how do we change the transportation status on the delivery to u2018cu2019 without creating a shipment with a third leg (subsequent leg)?

Rgds,

Conor

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are having the same issue as above, where we only have two legs but using the main legs requires a minimum of three legs.

Does anyone have a solution for this

Thanks in advance,

Finbarr

[Former Member]

Finbarr,

the solution as below.

Category 4: With Shipping Type for Preliminary Leg and Subsequent Leg

This leg determination type works in exactly the same way as in Category 1: According to the Itinerary.

Here, however, the preliminary leg shipping type and the subsequent leg shipping type (that you can maintain in the shipment header) are taken into account. These shipping types are used for the preliminary and subsequent legs that are created.

You can use this to hide subsequent legs by not maintaining the shipping type for the subsequent leg. This is helpful if you are only responsible for transportation up to a certain point and not all the way to the ship-to party location.