SAP TM Creating Too Many Freight Orders? Start Here

HAUULA, Hawaii - Aug. 13, 2026 - PRLog -- Why is SAP TM creating too many Freight Orders?

Usually because the planning run could not combine the Freight Units it was given — not because the delivery was split incorrectly.

The delivery split shapes what transportation planning receives. It does not decide the final plan.

How do I check which layer is the problem?

Work through these in order. Stop when you find it.

1. Were both Freight Units selected into the same planning run? Open the run and look at the list. If only one appears, the cause is your selection settings or planning horizon. Nothing else needs checking. This takes about two minutes and can immediately rule out an entire class of planning issues.

2. Can one vehicle realistically serve both stops? Time windows do not need to overlap — a vehicle can serve one customer at 10:00 and another at 14:00. What matters is whether the full tour is feasible, including travel, loading and unloading.

3. Is an incompatibility, capacity limit, network or lane issue affecting the plan? Check whether an active incompatibility applies, whether the combined load genuinely exceeds the resource capacity, and whether the network and transportation lane support the intended movement.

4. Only then look at Freight Unit Building. Which rule was applied? Which strategy? Does creation run automatically on delivery save, or as a batch step? Rules determined by condition can process near-identical deliveries differently.

5. The SD delivery split last. Shipping point, ship-to party, delivery date, route, shipping conditions.

What if nothing is blocking it?

Two Freight Units can be physically capable of sharing a truck and still not be combined. If no constraint applies, the optimizer may simply have preferred a different arrangement.

Feasible is not the same as preferred. That is a different conversation — about what your planning is optimising for.

The decision SAP cannot make for you

Consolidation cannot be configured reliably until the business has agreed what "should travel together" actually means — which customers, which destinations, within what time flexibility.

If that rule cannot be written in one sentence, no configuration will produce it consistently.

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