Introducing Manual Planning for Ocean Transports

In this lesson, you will explore the transportation process for ocean freight. This process supports transportation planning, execution and monitoring in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition for ocean freight in a multi-modal transport. This process comes in three flavours depending on the type of order that initiates the transportation process. In an outbound scenario, the starting point is a sales order (scope item 64A). In the inbound scenario, the starting point is a purchase order (scope item 64B) and in the replenishment scenario, the starting point in a stock transport order (scope item 64C). These processes / scope items are very similar to the respective processes / scope items for manual transportation planning. The key differences in all three processes / scope items are:

• Transportation planning is either done in the Manage Ocean Freight Bookings app or in the Transportation Cockpit.
• The transportation result typically consists of three transportation stages (a pick-up stage from the source location of the transport to the port of loading, a main stage from the port of loading to the port of discharge, and a delivery stage from the port of discharge to the final destination.
• Multiple freight documents (freight bookings / freight orders) may be created and executed.

A characteristic of the manual planning process for ocean freight is, that the shipper creates the door-to-door ocean freight booking in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, but the detailed transportation planning is done by the freight forwarder/carrier and only maintained into SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition by the shipper.

See the following video to learn more about the manual transportation planning for ocean freight - outbound process.

See the following video to learn more about the manual transportation planning for ocean freight - inbound process.

See the following video to learn more about the manual transportation planning for ocean freight - STO process.