Planning with Multiple Means of Transport

[Former Member]

Hello Gurus,

I have multiple means of transport for a transportation lane.

If I execute the heuristics planning which means of transport will be considered?

Thanks,

Siva.

[Former Member]

Hi,

System always considers MOT with least transportation time. But you can influence it by specifying MOT cost in T-lane. Yes, SNP heuristics does look at this field. Give high cost to MOT having less duration.

Thus, in a example given by muali, where truck requires 1 day and train 10 day. U can specify high cost for truck. So for demand on 2nd day system will choose truck , but for demand after 10 days it will select train. Try it.

Also MOT is selected in heuristic run i.e. while creation of PReq and same is carried forward in dep run. However u can change it in interactive TLB.

Hope this helps!

Best regards,

Vaibhav

[Former Member]

Hi,

I can confirm that the SNP-heuristic "looks" at the costs.

What I'm also looking for is a way to exclude a specific "means of transport" from the SNP-heuristic.

Eg We want to allow only ship to be used by the heuristic - but another entry for MOT "plane" exists and should only be used manually.

How can I exclude one or more MOT from the SNP-heuristic and allow the system to only ever use 1 preferred MOT.

Any settings in the T-Lane? Or a specific exit or BAdI?

Thanks,

MCL

[Former Member]

Hi Siva,

After checking the validity Heuristic always looks for the lead time first, a MOT takes. Say two MOT truck and train have different lead time of 2 and 3 days respectively. Heuristic always select truck first (minimum lead time) for this case. You can prioritize train by giving higher priority to train.

But there is a condition too. Suppose you prioritize train as your primary MOT and as Murali said there are demands on 2nd day 5th day and, and you run the heuristic .

You will see that for 2nd dayu2019s demand fulfilled by the MOT truck (though lower priority) and 5th dayu2019s demand fulfilled by train.

So, priority plays a role when you have enough time to meet the demand.

Thanks,

Satyajit

[Former Member]

still its deploying to the one MOT of truck.any spetial settings needed? to achive the desired result

[Former Member]

Hi Murali,

Can you elaborate? I was talking about Heuristic run to creat PRs. What You create STR (deployment)or PR (heuristic)?

It would be better if you open a new thread for your issue. You will get more reply too.

Thanks,

Satyajit

[Former Member]

Hi Shivs,

First system will have check at validity dates & its assignement with the Product.

If all MOT has got the same criterion, then in Heuristic planning system will consider the first MOT in the selection of MOT from internal program during planning

Thanks,

Mangesh A> Kulkarni

[Former Member]

Hi Gurus ..

i have the same problem can some one help me?

I have two means of transports

1.Truck

2.train

truck will take one day and train will take 10 days to the destinationu2019s . I have maintained for DC demand for 1 for todayu2019s date and 2 for after 10days planned demand. When i run a deployment Heuristic it is always planning for one mean of transport i.e. Truck for all the demand. But where it needs to plan for two different means of transports on the same day for each demand respectively.