TM: Freight Order Management

You can use the business documents in freight order management to enter all the information required for transportation planning and execution, such as source and destination locations, dates/times, product information, and resources used.

You can create freight orders directly or in transportation planning. For example, you can assign freight units to the freight orders and have the system calculate the transportation charges.

Freight order

Order for which execution is planned by a carrier or the shipper. Use freight orders primarily for land transportation (road freight order) and rail transportation.

• Transportation Management under Freight Order Management Freight Order Define Freight Order Types.

Content

• Planning information
• Business partner
• Driver
• Locations and dates/times
• Items 
• Quantities and weights (see Quantities and Capacities)
• Goods information (see Goods Information)
• Corresponding freight orders (see Pick-up and Delivery Freight Orders)
• Dangerous goods information (see Considering Dangerous Goods)
• Seal information (see Use of Seals)
• Information about foreign trade (see Integration with SAP Global Trade Services)
• House bill of lading (see Building of House Bills of Lading and House Air Waybills)
• Service items
• Cargo items
• Execution information, for example, actual departure times
• Transportation charges
• Status information and blocking information
• Customs-relevant information
• Output management

Customizing

Integration settings

• Define freight order types and assign valid item types and event codes to them.

Order type determination

The system determines freight order types in one of the following ways:

• If you create freight orders during planning and have configured the respective settings in the planning profile (Business Document Type area), the system determines the freight order type according to your settings.
• If you create freight orders from your forwarding order stages, the system uses the freight order type that you have defined in the Customizing activity Define Default Capacity Document Types for Stages.
• If freight units are converted into freight orders when direct shipment options (DSO) are determined, the system uses the freight order type that you specified for DSO in the freight unit type.
• The system uses the default freight order type that you define in this Customizing activity.