Interactive Transport Load Builder

Use
The deployment run results in the creation of deployment stock transfers. The Transport Load Builder then enables you to manipulate these deployment stock transfers within the time period you specify in order to build a feasible, consolidated transport load. The interactive planning desktop displays the relevant values such as cumulative volume, cumulative weight, and capacity consumed so that you can determine when a load is complete. TLB enables you to build transport loads for one resource on one transportation lane. To display the TLB interactive planning desktop, choose from the SAP APO easy access menu: Supply Network Planning Planning Transport Load Builder (TLB), or choose the TLB icon on the interactive planning desktop for Supply Network Planning.

Prerequisites
You have assigned a transportation planner to the appropriate transportation lanes. You have assigned a TLB profile to the transportation lane in the Supply Chain Engineer. You have run deployment or the deployment optimizer.

Features
The TLB interactive planning desktop is similar to the other interactive planning desktops in Supply Network Planning. This means that the shuffler, profile selection, planning books/data view, and macros are on the far left side of the screen and the work area is displayed on the right. The work area is divided into three sub-areas: TLB shipments appear on the left-hand side of the work area. These are the shipments generated by the TLB run. Deployment stock transfers resulting from the deployment run are displayed on the righthand side of the work area. The TLB shipment items appear in the lower half of the work area and you can display them by double clicking on the TLB shipments.

Most of the icons displayed provide the standard functionality available in the other interactive planning desktops. TLB-specific icons are described below: To run TLB, choose . .

To specify when each run should be executed, choose

To display the capacity load (maximum volume, and so on) as a graphic, choose . To change the layout, for instance, to display APO internal numbers for orders, and so on, choose .

To transfer the shipments directly to the connected OLTP system, choose

To have this icon displayed, you must have previously configured the transfer of SNP orders to OLTP systems (by choosing periodic transfer) in Customizing. After the TLB run, you can make manual changes to the displayed shipments and orders. For instance, you can use drag & drop to move one or more deployment stock transfers to the TLB shipments (such as possible remaining stock transfers from the deployment run that could not be included in the TLB shipments). In addition, you can also use drag & drop (in this instance, while also pressing the CTRL button) to add quantities (all or partial quantities) from the deployment stock transfers to the TLB shipments. You can also create new TLB shipments from the deployment stock transfer area by right clicking on a stock transfer and making the relevant selection. You can display the schedule lines and items for specific TLB shipments in the lower half of the work area by double-clicking on a shipment.