Dear All SAP TM Experts,
We are trying to find out the solution for the following case:
Transportation chain is: Mill --> Loading Port --> Discharge Port --> Inland Warehouse --> Customer.
First leg is done by train, then by ocean vessel and the last two are done by trucks.
Sales order is first created to the last location (Inland Warehouse) in SAP ECC and sales order scheduling is triggered within SAP TM. (There will be second sales order in the later phase which is used for call-offs). TM is doing the backward scheduling taking into account all the durations from transportation lanes and vessel departures from the vessel schedule. Then we are getting the right so called "ex-mill date" which can be used later for ATP check and info for the Mill when they need to do latest the dispatch to loading port.
So far everything is clear and OK.
But our customer's very heavy requirement is to be able to see stock in SAP ECC side in each and every locations during the whole transportation chain. This means that we need to create STOs (and goods receipts) between the following legs:
Mill --> Loading Port
Loading Port --> Discharge Port
Discharge Port --> Inland Warehouse
Now my question is that can TM do the scheduling or calculating the planned delivery times for those STOs based on the SAP TM transportation lanes / vessel schedules? If not, is then only option to maintain routes also in SAP ECC side and utilize that for delivery time calculation?
For me it doesn't sound good option to use sophisticated scheduling options for sales order in SAP TM and same time do the planned delivery time calculation in SAP ECC for STOs.
I have involved earlier in the pretty similar problem, but then we had an SAP APO in the scope. Then the solution was to give the STO creation (and scheduling) for APO - gATP. But now this is not the option.
Thanks in advance for the good comments / advices,
BR,
Ville