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Route and Transportation Zone

Former Member
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Hi,

Can you please tell me the technical different between route and transportation zone...

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Former Member
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Hi friend

the simple way to understand the difference is transport zone is the postal code where as route is the way required to ship the material.From the departure to destination what route it take to ship the material.

Thanks

Former Member
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thanks....confusion resolved

former_member204513
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Dear Maxim,

Route

The distance to be covered between a starting point and an end point. A route can be comprised of several legs, depending on whether the task is a standalone task or bundle.

Transportation zone

A zone where the ship-to party is located and Transportation zone is used by the system as a factor for determining the route.

For example, transportation zones can be defined according to postal code areas.

I hope this will help you,

Regards,

Murali.

former_member550050
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Hi

Route is the path that is followed

Suppose if you are shipping materials from Chennai to calcatta then the route is chennai-vijayawada-vizag---like that to calcatta

Tranportation zone is defined for countries and taken from Ship to party

Suppose for india we have defined 4 Transportation Zones like east,west,north,south

Then this ship to party calcatta will be assigned to east transportation zone

Technically both are entirely different

I am pasting here with the documentations of SAP regarding this

Define Routes

In the following IMG activities, you define your routes. The route determines the itinerary and the means of transport in shipping, and influences transportation scheduling. For example, if the route includes rail transport, transportation scheduling may have to include the time required to reserve freight carriages.

Using routes, you can combine sales order items according to shipping criteria.

The system determines routes automatically for a sales order item and can repeat the procedure for a delivery (see section Route determination).

In order to define routes, proceed as follows:

u2022 Define the modes of transport.

u2022 Define the shipping types.

u2022 Define the transportation connection points and maintain the relevant data on the detail screen.

u2022 Define the routes and route stages.

You can also maintain the route stages for several stages.

Note for transport interface

The transport includes all objects maintained in Customizing for controlling route definition.

In order to trigger transport, you select all entries to be transported and choose Table view -> Transport.

You can check the entries and copy or delete them in the transport request.

Save your entries.

Define Transportation Zones

In this activity, you can define transportation zones according to country and depending on your company's needs. Transportation zones represent delivery recipient (ship-to party) regions or delivery shipper (vendor) regions.

Use

After taking into account the ship-to party's transportation zone and other factors such as:

u2022 Country of origin and country of destination

u2022 Shipping conditions

u2022 Transportation group,

the system automatically suggests a suitable route during sales order and outbound delivery processing.

Example

You can define transportation zones according to a country's zip code system.

Activities

Define the transportation zones you need for each country and enter the corresponding description.

Regards

Raja

former_member217082
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Hi

Difference between Route and Transportation Zone

Route - In a Route a Transportation Zone is maintained .To determine a route we have to maintain a transportation

Transportation Zone - It is a essential element in route telling that from which transportation zone to which transportation zone the route is maintained

Regards

Srinath