Transportation time
Transportation time, one of the lead time components that is used in purchase orders and distribution orders, can be determined in several ways, depending on whether Freight Management is implemented:
- If Freight Management is implemented, transportation time is determined by means of Freight Management.
- If Freight Management is not implemented, the distance tables in Common are used to determine the transportation time.
Addresses
To calculate the transportation time, an original address and a destination address, are always involved. Which addresses are used depends on the order type:
- For distribution orders, the addresses of the sending warehouse (the original address) and the receiving warehouse (the destination address) are involved.
- For purchase orders, the business partner address (the original address) and receiving warehouse address (the destination address) are involved.
Carrier
For distribution orders, a carrier is always involved.
For purchase orders, a carrier is optional.
If travel time is planned for a carrier, the carrier’s calendar is retrieved indirectly by means of the business partner.
To indirectly retrieve a calendar, these calendars are consulted:
- Calendar on the Ship-to Business Partner role (in the Business Partners (tccom4500m000)) session) of the business partner that is filled as carrier Buy-from Business Partner, in the Carriers/LSP (tcmcs0580m000) session.
- Calendar on the Buy-from Business Partner role, of the business partner that is filled as carrier Buy-from Business Partner.
- Company calendar in the Companies (tcemm1170m000) session
For all lead times, the availability type for carrying goods, as specified in the COM Parameters (tccom5000m000) session, is used.