Dear Kuntla
a) Transportation Planning Point
Transportation planning point consists of a group of employees responsible for organizing transportation activities. Each shipment is assigned to a specific transportation planning point for transportation planning and shipment completion. You must define the various transportation planning points used in your organization in Customizing for Corporate Structure before they can be used to perform transportation functions. You can define this organizational unit according to your companyu2019s needs, for example, according to geographical location or mode of transport.
The transportation planning point is an organizational unit in Logistics, responsible for planning and processing transportation activities.
It organizes the responsibilities in a company, e.g. according to shipment type, mode of transport or regional departments.
b) Shipping Point
Shipping points are independent organizational entities within which processing and monitoring of the deliveries as well as goods issue is carried out.
A delivery is always carried out by one shipping point only. The shipping point depends on the following criteria:
A shipping point can be determined for each order item. How the shipping point is determined depends on three factors:
- The shipping conditions from the customer master record (Shipping screen)
- The loading group from the material master record (Sales/Plant Data screen)
- The delivering plant
thanks
G. Lakshmipathi
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