Product Specific Transportation lead time

[Former Member]

We need to maintain different sourcing lead times for different products in the "Transport duration" field of the "Means of Transport" of the transportation lane. The transportation lane exists between the Supplier and the DC. A single vendor would supply different products which may have different lead times.

Could anyone kindly give us pointers as to how this could done in the TL ?

Best Regards,

Mukundan

[Former Member]

Hi

as well as Sanjog's answer another option is to keep just one TL MOT record and instead use the Goods Issuing time on the product Location record to account for the different leadtimes of product from a supplier. This time is added to the transportation time on the TL. It is the "GI Processing Time" field on the GR/GI tab.

Which method you use depends on the amount of different leadtimes you have from a supplier (a few and I would use Sanjog's method, more and I would use the GI time). The GI time can also be integrated in with the transportation planning of deliveries in the ERP system as well to give better visibility of milestones in the delivery tracking. (e.g. you have a planning point when the goods should be ready to ship as well as when they are due).

Regards

Ian

[Former Member]

Hi.

To maintain Prod-spec lead time you need to create product specific means of transport.

1. In product specific lane define the products for which you to create lane between source and destination.

2. In means of transport define all the Means of transport valid between source and destination with proper lead times, remember here you should not check the option "Valid for all products"..

3. Now select Product specific means of transport option and select the product for which you need to define the MOT, now select create option and assign the required Means of transport.

Thanks,

Sanjog

[kenneth_snyder]

you can maintain product specific lanes.

but this is only useful if a group of products have the same duration.

you do not want to create a different means of transport for every product.

There really is no business sense for what you ask.

Transp duration is normally regardless of the product.

However, certain types of products may take longer, then in this case you can use product / transp groups.

Ken Snyder