Planning Overview and Planning Freight Units in the Transportation Cockpit

TMP - The TM Podcast

Planning a Freight Unit in TM and what is planning in general is an interesting topic when working with the TM. In this episode a brief overview of planning is given, and topics related to Freight Unit planning are discussed. The important decisions, which have to be made in the context of Freight Unit planning are one part of the talk. Some basic parts of the Transportation Cockpit and Profile and Layout sets are covered as well. In this episode we focus on using the Transportation Cockpit for manually assigning Freight Units to Freight Orders or Resources with or without the mouse. In case you want to dive a bit deeper, you may also look into the book Jens co-authored, which can be found here: https://www.sap-press.com/transportation-management-with-sap_4768/

Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. What is a Freight Unit? (00:01:19)

3. What is planning? (00:03:57)

4. The different dimensions of decision making in Freight Unit planning (00:05:00)

5. Demand document stage sequence decision (00:05:29)

6. Consolidation decision (00:08:45)

7. Routing decision (00:10:39)

8. Scheduling decision (00:17:20)

9. Resource assignment decision (00:20:06)

10. Driver/Carrier assignment decision (00:24:22)

11. Packaging decision & Physical positioning (00:25:41)

12. Wrapping up on decision making and transitioning to Freight Unit planning (00:27:21)

13. What is the Transportation Cockpit? (00:34:06)

14. What are the options for planning Freight Units? (00:44:07)

15. Optimizer (automatic) or Transportation Proposal (semi-automatic) (00:44:55)

16. Manual Planning (00:47:05)

17. Drag & Drop or Assign Selected Items (00:48:08)

18. Directly assign a Freight Unit to a Resource (00:55:29)

19. More capabilities (Lists/Hierarchies, Map, Gantt Chart) (00:57:41)

20. Create specific Freight Order or Freight Booking (01:06:28)

21. Command line planning (01:08:59)

22. Editable field to assign resource/driver (01:12:42)

23. Wrap Up (01:14:35)

24. End (01:16:56)