Hi.
For some reasons, I have a need of Solman ChaRM with multiple transport layers in a same system landscape.
The scenario is having two different DEV systems(A & B) and I want to configure different transport layers for below scenarios together.
Scenario 1. DEV(A) to DEV(A) - different client each other
Scenario 2. DEV(A) to DEV(B)
Scenario 3. DEV(B) to DEV(A)
Can someone help me to figure out whether this is possible or not?
Best Regards,
Seong Do Lee
Hi experts,
I Need to use the same rate table for several Charge types. But, when I tick the rate table as multiple, it issues an error that I have to include the Charge type as calc Basis. But, I simply want to use the same percentage share for several charge types.
Has someone used this before. Any hint. I have managed to save the rate table with the flag now after having maintained everything else with another Charge type. Then, I have flagged it and it removes the Charge type.
Regards
Petra
Hi,
I am working on a shipper scenario and when I am transferring freight settlement doc, PO is created but due to error in SXMB_MONI- No payment type passed on ( mESSAGE nO-036(WS) the service entry sheet cannot be created.Can experts help on this.
Dear experts,
would need to update the percentage obtained in cost distribution into a Discount Charge type. Can someone tell me which Badi or enhancement I can use to write a percentage into a Charge type ? The charge type shall contain the share amount from cost distribution.
Has someone used an enhancement to write an amount into a Charge type that does not come from a rate table?
The only idea I have would be to use a CHACO method and read the amount from the cost Distribution node and copy it into the pricing node.
Is there a dedicated Charge calc Badi to do that? I would like to Show the percentage in the calculation rules shown in Show/Hide Details.
Regards
Petra
Dear all
I'm implementing the STO scenario using PI to transfer the documents between SAP ECC 6.0 and SAP TM 9.2.
I have:
- CIFed the locatios (source and destination) as Plants (we activated the badi to add "PL" as prefix)
- CIFed destination location as Customers (we activated the badi to add "CU" as prefix)
- CIFed shipping points (we activated the badi to add "SP" as prefix)
- CIFed products
- Created the busines partner functions (CRM001,CRM002,CRM004) for the destination location
- Double checked the customer has assigned the Business Partner (BP)
In the process flow I can create the STO in ECC, the document is sent to TM correctly (sxmb_moni in ECC shows evertything is OK).
In SAP TM the same transaction shows the follwing error: Business partner internal ID M040 does not exist. M040 is the receiving plant.
I have double checked the master data is Ok. I also debugged the program (executing sproxy and using break points) and I came to this program:
/BOBF/CL_TRA_SERVICE_MGR======CM00B; in this program in line 71 there is a call like this:
mo_bopf->check_authority_statically which fails, once this fails the system saysit cannot find the Business Partner with Business partner type 159.
¿Can you help me to understad the behavoir of this method?, ¿which permissions I'm missing?
Thank you
Dear TM Experts,
I have a requirement where i need to create freight units based on Z logic, during creation of OBTR based on Sales order of SAP ECC.
Step are as below:
1. 2 Z fields will be created in SAP ECC Sales Order screen, where user maintain data of no of 20 and 40 feet container.
2. Based on this container count maintained at Sales order Z fields, i need to create no of 20 or 40 foot containers while creation of OBTR in SAP TM
I know for this i need to enhance the PI structure for both Outbound and Inbound message structure. and add logic at Badi to send Z field data from SAP ECC & receive Z field data in SAP TM. But after receiving what is the best, easy and safe way to create Freight Units in SAP TM based on this container count coming from Z fields of SAP ECC.
Please suggest on this at requirement.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Md.Rafi
Dear Experts,
I would like to understand the prerequisites for the system to populate the rates when the routing button is clicked on the Freight Order.
I was checking in the system wherein upon clicking the routing button it is populating a screen with alternate routes and rates along with the carrier information.I see that we have a rate table defined for base charge based on the transportation zone and product freight group but carrier is not a criteria in the rate table. When carrier is not a criteria, how the system is able to pick the rate from the rate table. The rate table has also not been mentioned in the calculation sheet of in the FA of the respective carrier.
Awaiting your inputs.
Thanks,
Fayaz
Hello Friends,
Business Scenario:
* FO contains goods of multiple Destination Locations because of multiple freight units of different consignees
* There will be multiple "Packages/Boxes" for each destination location
* Charge should be calculated per destination location (hence resolution base "Dest Loc" kind of mechanism)
* Charge based on Gross Weight Scale should be grouped by grouping rule "Package"
What is provided in Standard SAP TM:
Resolution Base: Package
grouping Rule: DESTINATION LOCATION (DESTLOC calculation base)
What we need:
Resolution Base: DESTINATION LOCATION
grouping Rule: Package (as a Calculation Base)
Is this possible without the need of new Resolution Base.
Please advise.
Thanks and Best Regards,
Vikas Chhabra
we have insatalled TM 9.0 (110) and we configured NWBC and activated services. for some of the urls we are getting below error
Hi.
In sap standard integration content for shipper scenario, its specified that for setting up STO scenario we need to create inbound delivery as std process. However if we just need to create purchasing scenario using normal purchase order what should be the process then i.e in normal PO scenario we do GR instead of inbound delivery.
Hello, Colleages!
Me and my colleagues during VSR optimization faced with following task.We set up simple transportation network with cargo transportation between two cities. In the task we have own fleet with N tractors and N+2 trailers (figures are not important). Also we have a set of drivers who steers these tractors (for example N+3 persons). Business is organised in such a way that delivery shoulder is 20 hours that is longer than one driver work day. In order do not lose effectiveness we want tractor to move without prolonged stoppings. There were proposed Idea to make a driver substitution during delivery with another driver in one interim point. In such a way, driver may stay in this interim point (city) and take a rest, but tractor with trailer continue to work without stops.
We work with TM 9.1. Unfortunately we didn't find an appropriate way to reflect this driver change process in the system, and as a result to schedule this process.
So, colleagues, do you have any Ideas how it's possible to solve this task? Maybe you met with similar situations and has own experience.
This document is created to summarize the functionalities which are not supported by SAP Transportation Management. These functions are real questions from customers therefore you can see here some concrete examples.
Create a Forwarding Order from an export Freight Booking
It is not possible to create manually an FWO from an export FRB. If you try to create it (by seleting 'Create Forwarding Order' on the FRB UI header) the following error message appears:
'Action has not been processed successfully because of failed validations'.
This functionality is disabled because there isn’t seen a business case behind this. It is only designed for import bookings.
An alternative solution can be if you create the export FWO out of the cargo item(s) itself. As you have to maintain anyway the forwarding data in item details you have to select the cargo item(s) and press button ‘Create Forwarding Order’.
Cancellation email about carrier removal
If a carrier is removed from an Awarded Freight Order the system doesn't send a cancellation email to the carriers even though an XML message is generated: TransportationOrderCancellationRequest_Out.
The cancellation email is only supported as part of the Tendering process. Once the tendering is completed, this is no longer available.
The Departure Date is can be changed in fixed Freight Order
An FRO can be fixed by clicking on Fixing --> Fix. After that you can check this status on tab Statuses. Even though the FRO is fixed the Depature Date is can be changed.
If you do not get a system message about the fixing you should check the message settings in Customizing (TA SPRO -> Transportation Managemen -> Basic functions -> User interface -> Define message settings).
After an FRO fixing you cannot do any further planning or change existing planning like unassign FU, unassign existing carrier and assign new one etc. But you can change the dates as there could be delays, unavailability of handling resources etc. This is allowed as per standard behavior. You can check the help document where it mentions about what is not possible to change when a document is fixed.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_tm90/helpdata/en/62/a8e71895594a63886f30ac3187b6ba/content.htm
Freight Unit Carrier ID is not updated
If the Carrier ID is changed on the Freight Document the Freight Unit Header is not updated automatically. In standard the carrier is not updated on freight unit level. You have to trigger the update task at freight unit level when changes happens at freight order carrier assignment.
Create Freight Order type with transportation mode Air/Sea/Inland Waterway is impossible
If a new freight order type is created in TM Customizing you can select only 'Road' or 'Rail' for transportation mode. TM use Freight order for land based transportation and Freight bookings for air/sea based transportation. Thats why only road and rail are listed for Freight Order. When you define a Freight booking type, depending on transportation type air or sea, other transportation modes would be displayed.
An Alternative solution can be if a new transportation mode is defined under Transportation Lane --> Transportation Mode by selecting '3 - Inland Waterway' as 'Means of Transport' and '1 - Road' as 'Transportation Mode'. This can be work but this workaround has limitations.
Freight unit cannot be added to Freight Order via BOPF
You cannot add a Freight Unit via action ADD_FU_BY_FUID to Freight Order because a dump is occured. The standard way is to add FUs to FROs on the UI. The Test tool used for business is not supported.
TransportationOrderGenericRequest: Creation type change from G to S
TM will not support the creation type S as standard solution. The creation type S influences also some other things like the UI behaviour, but this is currently only done and evaluated for freight orders.
TM is currently not supporting ERP shipment integration for Bookings. The B2B Generic Inbound Service is not the standard interface to create bookings out of shipments. Therefore there can raise more issues which are not supported by this service for shipment integration.
You could change the creation type by modification or by an implicit enhancement:
Class: /SCMTMS/CL_TOR_GENRC_RQ_IN_SRV
Method: CREATE_BOOKING_VIA_FACTORY
Change there the creation type in the call of the method /SCMTMS/CL_TOR_FACTORY=>CREATE_TOR_BO.
From a standard perspective, the A2A service TransportationOrderSCMRequest_In would have to be enhanced to support bookings, too.
Missing 'Cost Distribution' tab on Service Order
Currently the Cost Distribution is only supported for Freight Orders and Freight Bookings. Therefore the 'Cost Distribution' tab is missing from the Service Order and the checkbox 'Enable Cost Distribution' is also not available in Service Order Type in Customizing.
You can see on this URL the Stucture of the Freight Order:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_tm91/helpdata/en/f0/759d9fb6ab4468b121c16b186cc8a5/frameset.htm
You can see on this URL the Stucture of the Service Order:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_tm91/helpdata/en/1c/557cbf85a14fb880acfb4e825232ff/frameset.htm
You can find more information about Cost Distribution Management on this URL:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_tm91/helpdata/en/79/d0f8ff05c84ac18a24f124542269d3/frameset.htm
'Use Current Value as Default' does not work as expected
A value of a field (for example on a FRO on General Data tab field Purchasing Organiztaion) can be set as default by right clicking on the field and selecting User Setting --> Use Current Value as Default. However, after the setting if a new FRO is created from a FU the Purchasing Organization is not the default as extected.
The 'Use Value as Default' feature is a pure UI functionality provided by the UI framework (WebDynpro). It works on the following way: when the screen is displayed and the field content is empty, then WD fills the default value in the input field. At the next modifying roundtrip, this value is sent to backend as modification, as if it were typed in by the user. The TM application does not register that (neither that a field has "default" values, nor the fact that a certain value was not typed by the user).
The default value applies to the input field if there is no content in it. For this particular example, if the freight order is already created with an organization in it (via settings in FRO type, or by creating application), then the default from the UI field does not apply.
Also, it requires UI - more precisely, the exact field - to be rendered in edit mode. If the user creates the freight document via e.g. FU stages and does not navigate to FRO screen to modify "General Data", then WD has no chance to populate the default value in the input field.
Therefore this UI feature must not be used as a reliable replacement or alternative to TM functionality . Especially when for organization units there are some well documented means to determine values automatically- including in freight documents.
Cancelled Freight Orders are getting recreated automatically
If a Freight Order is cancelled the Freight Unit Building Rule recreates it automatically. This is a shortcut process in which no Freight Units are created for any trabsportation request (such as delivery) but immediately a Freight Order is created. Here's used a Delivery-based Transportation Requirement type which has automatic freight unit building enabled. In this situation the Freight Order will always be equivale to the transportation requirement. Therefore if the Freight
Order is cancelled it will be recreated automatically again which is correct by design.
If a cancellation is to be done it is on the requirement side, i.e. the order/delivery must be cancelled in ERP.
Incorrect Purchasing Organization in Service Order
If a Service Order is created from a Freigth Order the Purchasing Organiztaion is not the default value which is maintained in Customizing of Service Order type. The Purch. Org. is taken over from the predecessor Freight Order. If the Service Order is created not from the Freight Order the Purch. Org. is taken from the Service Order type customizing.
A solution can be if a post exit is created for method /scmtms/cl_tor_factory=>create_tor_service_order. In this exit the Purch. Org. can be changed regarding the needs.
Possible to save the FO without Vehicle Resource
It is expected and standard behavior that the FO can be saved if the field VEH_RES_ID_T is blank. Many times when a FU is planned or a FO is created the vehicle resource is not finalized or this informtaion is not available. For example:
Therefore it is not desired to make a the vehicle field as mandatory for FO while saving.
Freigth Orders created from DTR has no service level assigned
The service level is intentionally not taken over from the DTR (or from the FU) into the freight order. It can be defined in the Customizing of the FO type. The service level in a DTR is defined by the customer order service level in ERP which indicates urgency of that order for the customer. The service level of the frieght order defines the service level for the freight order agreed between your company and the LSP which can have completely different levels. Additionally, if FU is created, there can be multiple freight units assigned to the same freight order with different service levels on freight unit level.
Hence the service level is only taken over into the item of the freight order.
If in your specific case you want to take over the value, you can e.g. create a strategy for the freight order or enhance the planning strategy.
Hello Experts,
I have a requirement wherein rail freight orders having freight term = 'XX' are to be excluded from the FSD batch job.
As I see, in the selection profile we do not have an option to define the rule using ‘and’ operator to accommodate the above logical expression so that I can tell the system if rail freight order is of type 'YYYY' and freight term = 'XX' exclude from the FSD batch job.
Please provide your valuable inputs.
Thanks,
Syed.
Hi,
I am a novice in SAP TM and need experts guidance in this query,
Loading and the Unloading date of FU is having the past date of the acceptable start date for some of the FU.
I agree the pick up and devliery date will be taken from the DTR document to the FU. Based on the dates in the DTR, the acceptable and requested start and end date will be calculated.
But here, I would like to know how the Loading and Unloading date are populated in the FU document and further flow to the departure and arrival date to the FOR.
Because of this inconsistency in few shipment , planned ship date becomes the shipment start date and hence becomes incorrect as per the customer schedule.
Thanks for your much help.
Regards,
Premalatha. S
Hi gurus,
My customer has a international forwarding operation for ocean direct shipment which has only Master B/L and no House B/L.
I've found some functions for "Air" direct shipment like "Direct Airway bill" but nothing for "Ocean" direct shipment.
Please guide me for Ocean Direct Shipment customizing on TM.
Belows are requirements for Ocean Direct Shipment.
- Both FCL(Full Container Load) and LCL(Less than Container Load) can be direct ocean shipment
- Only MBL & No HBL
- No consolidation
Any idea would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Dear All,
The cost center determination in Shipment Cost document is required on material division, i.e. the way Business Area is determined.
Request you all to provide your suggestions for the same.
Thanks,
Lalit
Dear experts,
has someone done a splitting of a freight order into FSD by any criteria? If so, can you provide sample code ?
I need to do split by Arrival Location. I have done a copy of the fowarding settelment method as Standard offers it.
I have separate lines as done in cost Distribution, but now I Need to include only the part for each receving Point in the FSD.
In the method, I see only that filling of the Partners is done. But, if I do that at item Level, nothing happens, the document is not split. The documentation says, payment Terms, payee, and doc currency are used as split critera, but have not found them in the comm structures. Where can I fill those with different values for my items. Hope someone has done this before.
thanks a lot in advance
Petra
Hello everybody.
Kindly ask you to help me a little :-)
I have a question about internal settlement on Freight Order which preceded document was OTR from ERP system.
Our case is similar to the described in the standard internal settlement variant, but we have OTR, instead FWO.
How to configure this scenario? Which kind of org. structure should i maintain for this case?
I will be grateful of any assistance. Links, documents, everything which can help.
Hi,
We are working in a shipper scenario where various modes of transport like road,rail,ocean, barge etc are used.Can the experts kindly inform if there is a way we can indicate from sales order processing for which mode of transport the OTR will be created in TM.Currently in OTR there is no way we can identify wheather the requirement is for road/rail/barge etc.Kindly do not consider order type as a reference.
Dear All SAP TM Experts,
We are trying to find out the solution for the following case:
Transportation chain is: Mill --> Loading Port --> Discharge Port --> Inland Warehouse --> Customer.
First leg is done by train, then by ocean vessel and the last two are done by trucks.
Sales order is first created to the last location (Inland Warehouse) in SAP ECC and sales order scheduling is triggered within SAP TM. (There will be second sales order in the later phase which is used for call-offs). TM is doing the backward scheduling taking into account all the durations from transportation lanes and vessel departures from the vessel schedule. Then we are getting the right so called "ex-mill date" which can be used later for ATP check and info for the Mill when they need to do latest the dispatch to loading port.
So far everything is clear and OK.
But our customer's very heavy requirement is to be able to see stock in SAP ECC side in each and every locations during the whole transportation chain. This means that we need to create STOs (and goods receipts) between the following legs:
Mill --> Loading Port
Loading Port --> Discharge Port
Discharge Port --> Inland Warehouse
Now my question is that can TM do the scheduling or calculating the planned delivery times for those STOs based on the SAP TM transportation lanes / vessel schedules? If not, is then only option to maintain routes also in SAP ECC side and utilize that for delivery time calculation?
For me it doesn't sound good option to use sophisticated scheduling options for sales order in SAP TM and same time do the planned delivery time calculation in SAP ECC for STOs.
I have involved earlier in the pretty similar problem, but then we had an SAP APO in the scope. Then the solution was to give the STO creation (and scheduling) for APO - gATP. But now this is not the option.
Thanks in advance for the good comments / advices,
BR,
Ville