Usage of the Standard Carrier Alpha Code (SCAC) in SAP TM

Dear friends of SAP TM,

In this blog post we will talk about the usage of the Standard Carrier Alpha Code (SCAC) in SAP TM.

The SCAC is a standardized code to identify carriers in transportation processes. And obviously, you want to use it also in SAP TM for freight orders and freight bookings to identify respective carriers.

The maintenance of the SCAC is done in customizing:

Some arbitrary examples are for instance (just sample test data, no real ones):

So you see, it’s basically a code with a description and a validity.

At next you want to assign the SCAC to a carrier. This is done in transaction BP in role ‘Carrier’ (CRM010) where you have two possibilities:

At the tab ‘Transport Data’:

Or at the tab ‘Identification’:

As you see, the Identification Type ‘BUP006’ represents the SCAC.

Having assigned a unique SCAC to a carrier, you can now easily find your carrier in TM documents.

As an example, let’s see the freight order:

Here, you can use the search help to find carriers. And in this search help you can also use the SCAC as filter

And in the freight order, the SCAC is also displayed:

Furthermore, in the freight order worklist the SCAC can be used to search freight orders by the used SCAC of a carrier.

As in this example, where all freight orders with SCAC ‘TM42’ are selected:

I hope this gives some insights how to apply the widely used SCAC to TM documents.

Feel free to comment, I appreciate!

Best regards,

Michael