Difference between stage and leg in shipping & transportation?

[Former Member]

Can anyone please tell me the difference between a stage and a leg?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello

Route determination is automatically proposed for each sales document item in the sales order. It is a process whereby one can assign a specific route with "transportation legs" using different shipment types and carriers.[trucks,rail etc.]

once a route has been defined, you can proceed with an "optional step" of maintaining the

stages for the routes.This can be carried out for each individual leg.

so legs = transportation connection points

and stage would be say "the northern route".

Hope this helps

[Manoj_Mahajan78]

Hi...

A Stage actually refers to the information about the geographical factors of a shipment. Any shipment can have 3 types of stages - Legs, Load Transfer Point and Border Crossing Point.

Regds

MM

[Former Member]

Hi Krishna,

Yes ofcourse. SFO could also be a load transfer point. R/3 transportation module does not restrict any connection point from being a load transfer point.

Depending on the business case, you define if a connection point is a Leg / Load Transfer Point or a Border Crossing Point.

Hope this explanation helps.

Rgds,

KK

[Former Member]

Hi Chandrasekhar,

A Stage actually refers to the information about the geographical factors of a shipment. Any shipment can have 3 types of stages - Legs, Load Transfer Point and Border Crossing Point.

A shipment can have any one or all 3 or any combination of the stages.

Leg - Refers to the Starting point and Ending point of a shipment. Could also include any intermediate points (Destinations)

For eg. : Assume there are two deliveries (D1 and D2) in a shipment.

D1 : From A - B

D2 : From C - D

Now the legs will typically be

A - B (D1 is assigned)

B - C (Empty leg - No deliveries)

C - D (D2 is assigned)

There are different types of legs available

1. Direct leg

2. Preliminary Leg

3. Main Leg

4. Subsequent Leg

5. Return Leg

In the example above, all legs are "Direct Legs".

If a shipment goes from Bangalore to Palo Alto Via Mumbai and San Fransisco then

Bangalore - Mumbai (Via Road / Rail) - Preliminary Leg

Mumbai - SFO (Via Sea / Air) - Main Leg

SFO - Palo Alto (Via Road) - Subsequent Leg

Off the above 3 legs, Mumbai could be a Load Transfer Point (The point where a shipment is unloaded from one MOT and loaded onto another).

Hope this info helps.

Rgds,

KK

[Former Member]

Hi,

In your example , will SFO not be a Load Transfer Point ?

Regards

[Former Member]

Stage is the state of processing for shipment while in transit.

I can be

1. Leg-Direct connnection between two points

2. Load transfer point

3 Border Crossing point

So Leg is type of stage only.

Regards,

Jatinder Mehta