Route Determination for Vessel Shipments

[katarinahartman]

Dear all,

we often ship material with vessels and we have difficulties with route determination for those kind of cases. Normally route includes only working days, so weekends and holidays are excluded from it. This is ok for truck shipments but not also for vessel shipments (vessel continues it's way for example from Europe towards N. America also during weekends and/or holidays). Due to the fact, that only working days are considered in the route, we have incorrect routes in sales orders for vessel shipments. That consequently means incorrect picking or delivery date in sales order.
Is it possible to determine special routes, in which weekends and holidays are included?

Thank you very much for your help!

Kind regards,

Katarina

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

yes , this can be done by maintaining a different factory Calendar( with no holidays or as per your requirement ) for the shipping point during the route determination .

i haven't tried this but i think it can be done  at SPRO -> Logistics Execution -> Shipping -> Basic Shipping Functions > Scheduling > Delivery Scheduling and Transportation Scheduling > Define Scheduling By Shipping Point

Thanks

Harshit

[venkat_narasimhan2 · Accepted solution]

yes, this can be done by maintaining custom calendar/s. The calendar should be configured according to the work days. I think the calendar should be attached to the customer master / vendor master so when the route determination occurs it will look at the calendar and propose the days accordingly thanks, Venkat

[katarinahartman · Accepted solution]

Dear Harshit,

thank you very much for your quick answer.
Described process will probably change calendar for whole shipping point, right, not only for one route?

Kind regards,

Katarina

[katarinahartman · Accepted solution]

Dear Venkat,

Thank you!
Is it also possible to attached the calendar to ship-to party or does it necessarily be the sold-to?

BR, Katarina

[michael_kozlowski · Accepted solution]

Assign different calendar in 0VTC for desired route(s).

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

dear

yes we can maintain  different working time for different routes (routes calendar) too other than maintaining factory calendar for shipping point.

regards,

Harshit

[Former Member]

Hello Katarina,

Yes, its possible to derive different routes and maintain different working calendars by customer. Below link will help you to undestand the complete logic.

Transportation Scheduling in SAP

Thanks much.

Regards,

Simon