Transportation Management with SAP LES

Stages 13.2
Another variant of the “Blank” leg determination category is the “0” category. If
you assigned the “0” category to your shipment type, you must specify the individual
stages manually, but the delivery documents are automatically assigned to
the individual stages. I can skip an example here, because the manual processes
were described in detail.
13.2.2 Automatic Leg Determination
Usually, legs are determined automatically. Compared to the manual procedure,
this procedure is used more commonly. This automatism, however, does not mean
that the SAP system optimizes the legs according to distances, but only generates
the legs according to the sequence of the delivery documents.
Legs Determined According to Departure Point and Itinerary
You can use several options to automatically determine legs. The most frequently
used rule is rule “1”: Legs are determined according to departure point and itinerary.
This rule defines that your truck must first stop at all shipping points and then
approaches your customers from the last shipping point.
To run this determination, click on the Planning button in the Deadlines tab.
Now, a pop-up window is displayed that shows the sequence of the individual
locations where the truck must stop (see Figure 13.21). This may still be changed
at this point.
Figure 13.21 Proposal of the Itinerary of the Individual Shipping Points and Ship-To Parties
Click on the icon. The status changes to “Planned,” and the text “Leg determination
executed” are displayed. The stages including the respective delivery
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