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doc_type: fsd_product_capabilities
source: SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2602 Feature Scope Description (v2.0, 2026-03-12)
module: Supply Chain
fsd_pages: 265–286
kb_version: 2602
last_updated: 2026-04-04
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# SAP S/4HANA Cloud Supply Chain Capabilities

This document captures the Feature Scope Description (FSD) capabilities for Supply Chain (Chapter 3.17) — covering Order Promising, Inventory, Logistics Cross Topics, Warehousing, and Delivery and Transportation — from the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2602 release.

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## 3.17 Supply Chain

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### 3.17.1 Order Promising

#### 3.17.1.1 Available to Promise

> 📄 FSD Reference: p265

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:

Internal sales representatives and order fulfillment managers require mechanisms to configure, execute, and monitor availability checks and optimize the distribution of supply. This is important when the availability of materials needed to confirm requirements is limited.

You can use the available-to-promise (ATP) capabilities to confirm on which date and in which quantity a requirement can be fulfilled.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| **Availability Check** | You can use this feature to determine on which date and in which quantity a requirement can be confirmed, based on a specified checking rule and the current supply situation for a specific material. The availability check takes concurrent requirements of differing types and their respective confirmation situation into consideration. |
| **Backorder Processing** | You can use this feature to re-prioritize sales orders and stock transport orders and perform automated mass availability checks to ensure that a limited supply of material is distributed in accordance with a specific strategy. Optionally, your system assigns specific supply elements to the individual requirements. You can monitor the check results and, if necessary, re-run the check to improve the confirmations for the requirements. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
*(无)*

**关联Scope Items**: —

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#### 3.17.1.2 Advanced Available-to-Promise

> 📄 FSD Reference: p266–267

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:

Internal sales representatives, order fulfillment managers, and order fulfillment specialists require mechanisms to configure, execute, and monitor availability checks and optimize the distribution of supply. This is important when the availability of materials needed to confirm requirements is limited.

You can use the advanced Available-to-Promise (aATP) capabilities to confirm on which date and in which quantity a requirement can be fulfilled. With scheduling, you can plan dates (and times) of logistical activities of different business processes. The calculated dates are returned to your business documents.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| **Alternative-Based Confirmation** | When creating and changing sales orders, you can use this feature to replace the originally requested delivering plant, storage location, or product for a requirement with a substitute delivering plant, storage location, or product: Substitution is executed inline and at subitem level for delivering plants. Substitution is executed at subitem level only for storage locations and products, and for third-party substitutions. Furthermore, you can define the subitem to which open remaining quantity is to be assigned when a full confirmation cannot be generated and, to enable the generation of a confirmation, you can define a numeric relationship for converting requested product quantities into substituting product quantities dynamically. Substitutes and, where relevant, numeric relationship data for quantity conversion are displayed during sales order processing and in the results of backorder processing runs. You can also prioritize the determination of substitutes based on different combinations of characteristic values for sales orders using extensibility options. In addition, during the availability check, you can automatically initiate the processing of sales order items by third-party suppliers using a specific substitution strategy. Substitutes with a valid source of supply are determined, and corresponding subitems for third-party processing are created in the sales order. You can also modify the list of substitutes determined using extensibility options. |
| **Product Allocation** | You can use this feature to allocate material quantities for a specific time period and to a combination of characteristic values for sales orders, stock transport orders, and scheduling agreements against which availability checks can be run. You can monitor the product allocation situation for product allocation objects, allocation periods, characteristic value combinations, and order items during a specific time period. Using the displayed data, you can take action to optimize the overall product allocation situation. |
| **Release for Delivery** | You can use this feature to manually reprioritize due sales orders and stock transport orders to ensure that a limited supply of material is distributed in accordance with a dedicated strategy and available supply. After reprioritization, you can trigger subsequent logistics processes. |
| **Supply Protection** | You can use this feature to plan quantities for defined protection groups that can't be consumed by less important demand elements (sales orders, stock transport orders, and so on). The availability check considers the quantities protected by supply protection and reduces the available quantity for demand elements not matching with the protection group of a supply protection object. Demand elements matching with a protection group don't have to respect these restrictions. |
| **Activity Attributes for Business Process Scheduling** | You can use this feature to determine durations and working times for logistical activities within certain characteristic combinations. These values are considered for scheduling with Business Process Scheduling. This feature is available for sales documents and stock transport orders. |
| **Review Scheduling Result for Business Process Scheduling** | You can use this feature to review the scheduling results for sales orders and sales quotations. It includes information about the scheduling schema, scheduling activities and their attributes. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
*(无)*

**关联Scope Items**: —

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### 3.17.3 Inventory

> 📄 FSD Reference: p268–271

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:

Inventory covers the following tasks:
- Management and optimization (that is, the recording and tracking) of stocks of materials on a quantity and value basis
- Planning, entry, and documentation of stock movements such as goods receipts, goods issues, physical stock transfers, and transfer postings on daily basis
- Performance of physical inventory (stocktaking) and stock adjustments on periodical basis
- Creating and managing of reservations at plant level, storage location level, or batch level to ensure the availability of materials for planned goods movements
- Optimized data entry supported by barcode scanning (for example, external scanner, device camera)

Inventory is mainly performed by employees managing the company's stocks at plant and storage location level.

**核心功能 (Key Features) — Goods Movement**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| **Posting goods movements** | Even in a computer-supported inventory management system, the accepted accounting principle of no posting without a document applies. According to the document principle, a document must be generated and stored in the system for every transaction/event that causes a change in stock. This feature allows you to post, for example, the following goods movements by generating corresponding material documents: Initial entry of stock balances (an operation performed once at the start of the productive life of the system in which physical stocks on hand or book inventory balances from a legacy system are recorded as opening book balances); Goods receipts (a goods movement with which the receipt of goods from various sources is posted: from a supplier, from production or even goods without any reference to a previous document; a goods receipt leads to an increase in warehouse stock); Goods issues (a goods movement with which a material withdrawal or material issue, a material consumption, or a shipment of goods to a customer is posted; a goods issue leads to a reduction in warehouse stock); Transfer posting (stock transfers from one storage location to another storage location as well as changes in stock type or stock category of a material; it is irrelevant whether the posting occurs in conjunction with a physical movement or not; stock transfers can occur either within the same plant or between two plants); Scrapping (a posting in the inventory management system made if a material can no longer be used); Return delivery (a delivery returning goods to the supplier for some reason, for example, due to poor quality or because they are damaged, even if the goods receipt has already been posted; if the supplier sends a substitute delivery, the return delivery can be referenced to the goods receipt). |
| **Reporting** | The reporting feature includes a range of functions and reports that provide extensive information on all materials and their stock data: Generating lists of material documents by means of various search criteria; Displaying single material documents; Displaying basic information of existing batches; Evaluating total stocks of given materials at plant and storage location level; Evaluating stocks that are located in a plant's stock in transit; Analyzing average stock value and inventory turnover within a specific time period; Analyzing the goods movements; Displaying single physical inventory documents; Identifying overdue stock transfers; Identifying overdue materials that were already posted into the non-valuated goods receipt (GR) blocked stock; Identifying slow or non-moving materials; Identifying dead stock. |
| **Displaying price change documents** | This feature allows you to display price change documents that specify the valuation price of materials. |
| **Reservations** | This feature enables you to make a request to the warehouse to keep materials ready for withdrawal at a later date and for a certain purpose. The purpose of a reservation is to ensure that a material will be available when it is needed. This simplifies and accelerates the goods movements process. A reservation for goods issue can be requested by various departments for various account assignment objects (such as cost center, order, asset, etc.). A reservation can be taken into account by material requirements planning, which means that required materials are procured in time if they are out of stock. |

**核心功能 (Key Features) — Inventory Analytics and Control**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| **Analyzing and evaluating inventory management Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)** | You have various options for analyzing and evaluating inventory management processes based on, for example, stock value by stock type, warehouse throughput history, or overdue materials. In addition, you can monitor KPIs effectively to ensure forecast and inventory accuracy in a timely manner and visualize this in a meaningful way. You can identify critical KPIs to monitor the inventory flow or investigate potential problems. |
| **Analyzing stock differences** | You can analyze and monitor goods movement postings for one or more materials in a defined date range: Display of stock quantities and values on the defined analytical start and end date; Comprehensive analysis of all goods movements; Option to run an immediate background job on material stocks and material postings. |
| **Ensuring forecast and inventory accuracy** | You have various options for collecting and evaluating data in order to create business inventory analytics as well as to derive trends and provide recommendations for senior management. You can, for example, monitor stock aging in order to potentially adjust inventory levels to minimize fixed capital. |
| **Analysis on transfer posting** | You can get an overview of the overdue materials for which a stock transport order has been created. |
| **Monitoring and adjusting inventory process tasks** | You have various options for monitoring and adjusting inventory processes supporting day-to-day tasks based on, for example, recent inventory counts, warehouse throughput history, or outbound delivery lists. |

**核心功能 (Key Features) — Physical Inventory**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| **Physical inventory / inventory count and adjustment** | This feature allows you to perform the periodic process of making necessary adjustments to stock on hand after a physical count. The benefits are: Transparent view on the stocks currently available; Efficient processing of inventory adjustments (including initial counts and recounts); Device integration for physical inventory counting; for example, by using barcode scanner. The process begins with the generation of the required inventory count sheets. Materials can be blocked here for posting during the physical inventory. Once the inventory sheets are printed out, the actual physical inventory count is realized for the given materials. Afterwards, the count result is entered in the system and then any discrepancies against the system quantities are reviewed. The inventory may be recounted until final counts are accepted and inventory differences are posted. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
*(无)*

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### 3.17.4 Logistics Cross Topics

#### 3.17.4.1 Handling Unit Management

> 📄 FSD Reference: p272–273

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:

Handling Unit Management (HUM) supports you in reflecting packing-based logistics structures in the SAP system. Using this method, you can track the movements of entire handling units and the materials they contain, rather than tracking each material individually. When you base logistics processes on handling units, goods movements processing is made easier, which in turn optimizes all logistics operations.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| **Manage Handling Units** | A handling unit is a physical unit consisting of packaging materials and the products contained in it. A handling unit is a combination of products and packaging materials. All the information contained in the product items is retained in the handling units and is always available. A handling unit has a unique, scannable identification number that you can construct according to different requirements. |
| **Manage Packaging Material** | Packaging materials are intended to enclose or hold together the materials that are to be packed. In other words, the material that is to be packed can be packed into or onto the packaging material. The packaging material can be a load carrier. The most important packaging materials include boxes, wire baskets, and pallets. |
| **Manage Handling Unit Identification** | In a customer system, a handling unit is identified uniquely across all locations. The uniqueness of handling unit numbers is ensured by using the following number range objects: Internal Numbering; Serial Shipping Container Codes (SSCC); Global Transport Label (GTL). |
| **Manage Packing Instructions** | Customers often specify precisely the quantity in which their goods should be packed in a specific combination of packaging materials. These requirements for specific packing procedures often cause considerable costs for the supplier of the products concerned. Packing instructions enable the supplier to automate the packing process. Depending on specific characteristics, the system creates proposals for handling units based on the previously defined packing instructions. Based on this proposal, the supplier can pack the materials according to customer requirements, and then create the HU in the system. |
| **Monitor Handling Units** | You can get an overview of handling units (HUs) created in your plant, warehouse, and storage location and directly monitor all HU-relevant information. |
| **Output Processing** | Output Management for Handling Unit Management supports you in fulfilling certain printing standard requirements: HU Shipping Label is a printout to support the shipping process of a delivery; HU Shipping Label is a special printout to support the automotive industry with unique global transport labels; HU Label is a printout which includes the HU number and the packaging material. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
*(无)*

**关联Scope Items**: —

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#### 3.17.4.2 Business Process Scheduling

> 📄 FSD Reference: p274

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:

Scheduling allows you to plan dates (and times) for logistical activities of different business processes. The calculated dates are returned to your business documents. High scheduling precision allows you to optimize the way you use your resources.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| **Define scheduling schemas** | You can use this feature to configure your own scheduling schema with the logistical activities it consists of. For each logistical activity you can determine the source for the attributes calendar, duration, and time zone, which Business Process Scheduling considers for scheduling. |
| **Define time granularity** | You can use this feature to determine whether scheduling is performed with time granularity in days or seconds. |
| **Consider working times when scheduling with time granularity in days** | You can use this feature to consider the working times and durations in hours for one scheduling activity in your business process when scheduling with time granularity in days. For the other activities, only the factory calendar (working days) and duration in days are considered for scheduling. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
For information about the key features for the solution capability Advanced Business Process Scheduling, see Advanced Available-to-Promise [page 266].

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### 3.17.5 Warehousing

#### 3.17.5.1 Warehouse Management

> 📄 FSD Reference: p275–279

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:

Warehouse Management provides support with and real-time transparency into managing and processing material movements flexibly in a warehouse with its own stock.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| **Warehouse Structure** | Warehouse Management (WM) supports you from the very beginning, starting with configuring your warehouse, as follows: You define the warehouse number that identifies the warehouse; You define storage types; You define the units of measure, and number ranges to be used in the warehouse; You can create storage bins; You can use storage sections to group storage bins; You can use storage bin types to further classify storage bins; You can define staging areas; You can define activity areas and assign bins to them; You can define work centers for your warehouse. You can assign your warehouse number to multiple storage locations. |
| **Warehouse Products** | You can define and maintain warehouse-specific attributes for your products. You can assign the following: Putaway and removal strategies; Storage section strategies; Profiles, such as serial number profiles. |
| **Inventory Management** | You can map your warehouse in the system. This gives you an overview of the total quantity of each product in the warehouse. You can also always see exactly where a specific product is, at any time, in your warehouse. You can manage the product quantities in different stock categories on the following levels: At storage bin level; On staging areas for receiving, shipping, and production supply; In handling units and nested handling units. You can also store and manage batch-managed and serialized products in your warehouse. You can upload your stock from a file during your warehouse set-up. |
| **Handling Units** | A handling unit is a physical unit consisting of packaging materials (load carriers or packing material) and the goods contained in it. A handling unit is always a combination of products and packaging materials. All the information contained in the product items, for example, about batches, is retained in the handling units and is available as long as the handling unit is used in the warehouse. You can receive planned handling units from inbound deliveries. You can include shipping handling unit information in outbound deliveries. A handling unit has a unique identification number. You can nest handling units. You can attach files to handling units. |
| **Inbound Processing** | You can receive products from the following sources: Vendors; Production; Customer returns; Other parts of your company; Customer returns that have been returned to another storage location. You assign a putaway rule. You can create and confirm putaway tasks for the putaway of the products. You can define your own strategies to determine storage types, storage sections, and storage bin types. You can trigger quality checks for products received from external vendors. You can trigger quality checks for products received from production. You can trigger follow-up actions for customer returns. You can attach files to WM inbound deliveries. You can specify the serial numbers being received. |
| **Outbound Processing** | You can pick products and send them out of your warehouse for the following scenarios: Send ordered product to external customers, or internal customers, such as other plants; Supply products to production; Confirm stock transfer for Kanban; Return products to vendors; Supply products to internal consumers, for example, a cost center; Supply products for maintenance orders. You can post goods issue for the picked products. You can post unplanned goods issue for scrapping, sampling, stock correction, moving stock to a new storage location, or consumption. You assign a stock removal rule. You can define your own removal strategies to determine the most suitable source bin to pick from. You can configure the stock determination. You can attach files to WM outbound delivery orders. You can set up the automatic creation of warehouse tasks for picking at defined time intervals. You can combine or split warehouse request items into waves. You can specify the serial numbers being picked or shipped. |
| **Cross-Process Functions** | You can configure and assign rules to bundle warehouse tasks into warehouse orders. You can use layout-oriented storage control to use intermediate bins. You can perform ABC analysis to analyze confirmed warehouse tasks and update your putaway strategies. You can create your own exception codes to handle exceptions during warehouse task processing. You can define queues to group warehouse orders and specify how queues are assigned. |
| **Internal Warehouse Movements** | You can plan, create and confirm tasks for moving products to different areas inside the warehouse. You can perform ad-hoc internal warehouse movements from the warehouse monitor. You can also repack stock in the warehouse, for example, splitting a pallet into two pallets or adding a product to another pallet. You can replenish stock from reserve areas to fill up your storage bins on a regular basis. You can schedule this replenishment on a regular basis, and perform replenishment based on orders. |
| **Posting Changes** | You can change stock attributes, for example, by posting free stock into quality stock or blocked stock. You can post from vendor consignment stock to your own stock. You can schedule posting changes on a regular basis. |
| **Physical Inventory** | You can plan, conduct, and confirm regular counts of actual product quantities in the warehouse and compare the physical stock to the data in the system. For example, cycle counting or a scheduled yearly count. You define tolerances for posting differences in physical inventory. Following the count, you can update the data for the stock in the case of differences between the quantity of physical stock and the quantity in the system. |
| **Warehouse Monitor** | You can use the warehouse monitor to keep constantly up-to-date as to the current situation in the warehouse, and to initiate appropriate responses to situations that arise. The warehouse management monitor gives you full transparency about the following attributes of your warehouse: Warehouse activities; Stock and bins, including fixed bins; Executed movements; Planned movements; Inbound deliveries; Outbound deliveries; Products in the warehouse; Preallocated stock; Resources and queues. The warehouse monitor also contains alert monitoring capabilities, which highlight actual and potential problematic situations in the warehouse. |
| **Mobile Warehousing** | You can use mobile radio frequency devices to perform warehouse operations, such as putaway, picking, packing, or counting physical inventory. You can use queues or single warehouse documents as a basis for your mobile warehouse operations. You can configure verification controls to determine the fields to be scanned during mobile operations. |
| **Integration with Transportation Management** | Advanced Shipping and Receiving: You can integrate shipping-and-receiving processes with Transportation Management. Advanced shipping and receiving is an integrated, end-to-end process that allows you to send products out of your warehouse and transport them. You can coordinate the outbound process from the arrival of trucks at the gate to the final goods issue in the warehouse. |
| **Production Integration** | Advanced Production Integration: You can integrate the supply of products to production from your warehouse. The staging and consumption of products for production can be managed in a flexible way. |
| **Analytics** | You can get an overview and specific insights into daily operations in your warehouse. |
| **Connecting to External Warehouse Control Systems** | You can transmit open warehouse tasks to a non-SAP system for processing and confirm them in Warehouse Management. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
*(无)*

**关联Scope Items**: —

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#### 3.17.5.2 Basic Integration with an External Warehouse Management System

> 📄 FSD Reference: p279–280

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition supports an integration scenario for logistics execution processes with an external warehouse management on premise system, that is, SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) as of Release 9.5 Feature Pack 02.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| **Transfer of master data** | You can use this feature to transfer warehouse-relevant master data (for example, material, customer, supplier) from the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition system to your external warehouse management system. |
| **Integration of inbound processing (goods receipt)** | This feature supports the inbound process from procurement, stock transport order, or from customer returns. When you create a goods receipt in your external warehouse management system the data is transferred to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition system for further processing. |
| **Integration of outbound processing (goods issue)** | This feature supports the goods issue from sales process or from stock transport order process. You can create a delivery in your SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition system and transfer it to your external warehouse management system for further processing. |
| **Integration of production (production supply and goods receipt from production)** | This feature supports the delivery-based production process. Production supply: You can create an outbound delivery from production in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. The outbound delivery is transferred to your external warehouse management system for further processing. Goods receipt from production: When you create a goods receipt in your external warehouse management system, the data is transferred to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition system for further processing. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
*(无)*

**关联Scope Items**: —

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### 3.17.6 Delivery and Transportation

#### 3.17.6.1 Delivery Management

> 📄 FSD Reference: p280–281

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:

Delivery management is an important part of the logistics chain in which guaranteed customer service and distribution planning support play major roles. In delivery processing, all delivery procedure decisions can be made at the start of the process by doing the following:
- Taking into account general business agreements with your customer
- Recording special material requests
- Defining shipping conditions in the sales order

The result is an efficient and largely automatic shipping process in which manual changes are only necessary under certain circumstances.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| **Inbound Delivery Processing** | The inbound delivery process starts when the goods are staged at the supplier's shipping point, and it ends when the ship-to party posts a goods receipt for the delivered items. After a purchase order or a scheduling agreement has been created, a goods receiving point is determined. You can create an inbound delivery manually. If necessary, you can reverse a goods receipt. |
| **Outbound Deliveries** | You can create outbound deliveries from a list of sales documents by manually starting a collective run or by scheduling a job to run in the background. You can also display logs with information related to your sales orders or deliveries. Additionally, a pick list can be automatically printed in the background and you can use this list to help you locate and pick goods for your delivery. Depending on the current goods issue status, you can either post or reverse the goods issue. If the entries in the list have a different goods issue status, you can still select them for posting or for goods issue reversal. The system keeps track of which entries are candidates for which action and applies the respective actions only on the list entries with a status that matches the particular action. You can analyze outbound delivery logs, that is, you can check the system messages that have been logged during the collective creation run of the outbound deliveries, either with or without success. In case of a failed delivery, it is up to you to correct the issues that are mentioned in the log and then create a new delivery for the respective sales order. For each delivery log, you can look up the messages that the system has logged during the creation run. These messages can be related to a sales order, an individual delivery item, or to a delivery as a whole. You can also find out the numbers of the deliveries that the system has created. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
*(无)*

**关联Scope Items**: —

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#### 3.17.6.2 Transportation Management

> 📄 FSD Reference: p281–286

**业务背景 (Business Background)**:

Transportation Management (TM) supports transportation planning and execution in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. Order- or delivery-based transportation demands (freight units) are built considering transportation constraints, such as freight unit building rules.

The freight units can either be sent to a decentral transportation planning system or can be planned in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition:
- If planning is performed in a decentral transportation planning system, the planning result is received in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition from the decentral system as freight orders.
- If planning is performed in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, you can create freight orders and freight bookings based on freight units using the transportation cockpit. Alternatively, you can create freight orders and freight bookings in the list views of the corresponding apps and assign freight units directly in the business document.
- For transportation mode Sea, you can create ocean freight bookings to consolidate the freight units into container items for full container loads (FCL) or without container items for less than container loads (LCL). For the container items, you can create freight orders for pick-up or delivery to transport the containers to and from a port.
- For transportation mode Air, you can create air freight bookings to consolidate loose cargo. You can create freight orders for pick-up or delivery to transport goods to and from the airports of departure and destination.

These scenarios support freight units based on sales orders, purchase orders, stock transport orders, deliveries, and customer returns.

You can trigger the creation of deliveries based on the consolidation information. You can also calculate charges based on freight agreements and confirm freight costs.

**核心功能 (Key Features)**:

| 功能 (Feature) | 说明 (Use / Description) |
|---------------|------------------------|
| **Freight agreement management** | You can use this feature to create and maintain freight agreements as the basis for calculating transportation charges billable to you by your carrier. You use freight agreements, along with calculation sheets, rate tables (both kinds of rate table, including local rate tables), and scales, to efficiently manage long-term contracts with your carriers. |
| **Creation of central rate tables** | You can create and edit rates centrally in rate tables for transportation charges that are frequently needed in freight agreements. You can then use these rate tables in contracts with multiple carriers. |
| **Master data and transportation network** | You can use preconfigured truck types, railcar types, and container types provided in the system. You can also define your own equipment types for these categories. You can use these equipment types in road freight orders, rail freight orders, and ocean freight bookings. Note that you cannot use container types in air freight bookings. You can use preferred equipment groups and types to automatically create local items, such as container items, in capacity documents during planning. You can create entries for commodity codes and assign the commodity codes to products. You can create and use central master data such as business partners and products for transportation-related processes. In addition, you can use transportation-specific data such as locations to set up your transportation network. |
| **Creation of freight units** | When a sales order, purchase order, stock transport order, delivery, or customer return is saved, the freight units are created automatically. You can predefine the relevance of sales orders, purchase orders, or deliveries for transportation planning as well as freight unit building rules. |
| **Monitoring of freight units** | You can display and check the freight units that have been created during sales order, purchase order, or delivery creation. |
| **Creation of freight orders and freight bookings** | You can create freight orders and freight bookings based on freight units or freight unit groups using manual planning in the transportation cockpit. Manual planning also takes into account your settings in your planning profiles and subprofiles. For road freight orders, automatic determination of dates and times is supported. |
| **Transfer of freight units to a decentral transportation planning system** | You can use this feature to transfer the freight units that have been created to a decentral transportation planning system. |
| **Receipt of freight orders from a decentral transportation planning system** | You can use this feature to receive the freight orders that have been created based on the transferred freight units from a decentral transportation planning system. |
| **Creating, editing, and monitoring of freight orders** | You can display and check the freight orders that have been received from a decentral transportation planning system. You can make changes to these freight orders, such as assigning and unassigning freight units and adjusting charge calculation. The changes are then transferred to the decentral transportation planning system again. Furthermore, you can create, edit, cancel, set statuses, and monitor the execution of freight orders. When the freight order is ready for transportation execution, the system automatically creates consignment orders. In the outbound process, the system sends an advanced shipping notification based on a consignment order after goods issue has been posted for the assigned deliveries. You can also post accruals for each of the invoicing carriers in a rail freight order, where you have a different invoicing carrier for each stage. |
| **Creating, editing, and monitoring of freight bookings** | You can create, edit, cancel, set statuses, and monitor the execution of freight bookings. |
| **Creation of container items for freight orders and ocean freight bookings** | You can create container items and consolidate freight units into containers. You can display or enter information, for example, about seals and the verified gross mass of the container. |
| **Creation of railcar items for rail freight orders** | You can create railcar items to model your railcars. |
| **Creation of freight orders for pick-up and delivery for freight bookings** | You can create freight orders for pick-up and delivery for freight bookings. For the pick-up freight orders in outbound processes, you can also use a storage location managed with Warehouse Management. |
| **Dangerous goods checks** | Dangerous goods are checked in freight orders and freight bookings. |
| **Considering pallet spaces and loading meters** | You can define a unit of measure (UoM) for pallet spaces (for example EPL) and UoM for loading meters (for example LDM). These UoMs enable you to measure transportation demands and capacities in normalized floor space in trucks. |
| **Calculating greenhouse gas emissions** | You can configure CO2 emission parameters for your vehicle types. CO2 emissions for road freight orders are then calculated during manual planning, and the results are reflected in the road freight order user interface and the transportation cockpit. For the calculation, a distance-weight-based calculation method is used. |
| **Charge calculation** | When receiving the freight orders from an external system or saving a freight order or freight booking, charge calculation is triggered automatically. You can also calculate the transportation charges for a freight order or freight booking manually. |
| **Monitoring of charge calculation errors** | You can monitor and prioritize charge calculation errors in freight orders or freight bookings. |
| **Creation of deliveries** | You can trigger delivery creation by the system based on freight orders or freight bookings, both for inbound and outbound processes. |
| **Freight cost confirmation and posting** | You can confirm the transportation costs for freight orders and post the costs to Financial Accounting (FI). You can perform this as a manual action or you can use business rules to automate the action. You can monitor any errors that occur during the confirmation and posting of transportation costs. You can use precise message logging and reporting at the level of freight document and carrier or service provider. You can reprocess freight orders that contain errors to complete the posting. This becomes the basis for processing invoices for the freight order. For rail freight orders, you can post freight settlements at stage level. The system distributes freight costs at the level of order and delivery item in the freight order. The system posts the costs in a material valuation in an inbound process, or in an expense account in an outbound process. You can review the relevant freight cost allocation document. The system automatically releases the freight cost allocation document to accounting. In special cases, you can manually release the freight cost allocation document. You can confirm and post accruals for freight costs that arise from ocean and air freight bookings. You can post allocated freight costs in the context of an advanced intercompany sales process and an advanced intercompany stock transfer process. Note: The handling of Incoterms is harmonized between Sales, Sourcing and Procurement, Logistics Execution, and TM. You can use different Incoterm versions and a second Incoterm location in TM. |
| **Freight invoicing** | You can add an independent charge for a freight document and carrier or service provider combination, after you have verified an invoice. You can create and verify invoices from your carrier or service provider. Your carrier or service provider can use an electronic business-to-business (B2B) message to submit an invoice to you, the shipper. You can process unplanned freight costs for an invoice. The system automatically posts the freight cost variances during invoicing to an expense or material account depending on the business scenario. |
| **Warehouse integration** | You can integrate shipping-and-receiving processes with inventory-managed warehouses or with warehouses managed by Warehouse Management. Advanced Shipping and Receiving is an integrated, end-to-end process that allows you to send, receive, and transport products. You can coordinate the process steps, for example, from the arrival of trucks at the gate to the final goods movement in the warehouse. You can also use ocean or air scenarios based on pick-up or delivery freight orders. |
| **Integration of third-party warehouse management** | You can integrate a third-party warehouse management system with Transportation Management. This scenario supports manual transportation planning only. |
| **Integration of scheduling agreements** | You can integrate scheduling agreements from Sales and Distribution (SD) with TM. The integration is based on delivery schedules and can be triggered by the creation or change of schedule lines. |
| **Text integration** | You can specify which texts (notes) from sales orders or purchase orders are taken over into freight units. |
| **Enablement of stock transfer process with Warehouse Management** | You can integrate WM-managed storage locations into the outbound part of your two step-stock transfer process. |
| **Enablement of batch-managed products in freight business documents** | You can display detailed batch information for batch-based products in freight business documents. |
| **Freight cost calculation and freight settlement based on net weight** | You can calculate transportation charges for freight documents based on the net weight of cargo items. |
| **Enablement of subcontracting purchase order integration** | You can integrate subcontracting purchase orders with TM. You can now plan the transportation demand based on subcontracting purchase order requirements, execute the corresponding transportation activities, and perform freight cost calculation and settlement for both outbound and inbound processes. |
| **Enablement of customer consignment fill-up and pickup orders** | You can manage the complete transportation process for customer consignment fill-up and pickup orders, including planning transportation demand and executing deliveries. You can also perform freight cost calculation and settlement. |
| **Enablement of cross-company purchasing organization in freight documents** | You can use a cross-company purchasing organization in transportation freight documents to procure transportation services within TM. |

**⚠ 限制与注意事项 (Constraints / Notes)**:
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## Summary of FSD Sections Covered

| Section | Application Area | FSD Pages |
|---------|-----------------|-----------|
| 3.17 | Supply Chain | p265–286 |
| 3.17.1 | Order Promising | p265–267 |
| 3.17.1.1 | Available to Promise | p265 |
| 3.17.1.2 | Advanced Available-to-Promise | p266–267 |
| 3.17.3 | Inventory | p268–271 |
| 3.17.4 | Logistics Cross Topics | p272–274 |
| 3.17.4.1 | Handling Unit Management | p272–273 |
| 3.17.4.2 | Business Process Scheduling | p274 |
| 3.17.5 | Warehousing | p275–280 |
| 3.17.5.1 | Warehouse Management | p275–279 |
| 3.17.5.2 | Basic Integration with an External Warehouse Management System | p279–280 |
| 3.17.6 | Delivery and Transportation | p280–286 |
| 3.17.6.1 | Delivery Management | p280–281 |
| 3.17.6.2 | Transportation Management | p281–286 |

> **Note**: Section 3.17.2 does not appear in this chapter of the FSD — the numbering proceeds directly from 3.17.1 to 3.17.3.

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*Document generated from SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2602 Feature Scope Description, pages 265–286.*
