Freight Unit Building Rule 
The system takes into account freight unit building rules (FUB rules) when creating and editing freight units (see Creation and Editing of Freight Units).
Features
Consolidation
In the FUB rule, you define how the system is to consolidate freight units. To do this, you can use various freight unit building strategies (FUB strategies):
Consolidate as much as possible
In this case, the items come from different business documents, for example, forwarding orders. The system groups the items in freight units.
NoteIn addition to forwarding orders, other possible business documents are forwarding quotations, order-based transportation requirements, and delivery-based transportation requirements.
End of the note.Consolidate per item
In this case, the system generates one freight unit per business document item.
Consolidate per request (compatible parts)
In this case, the system groups all items of a business document to form a freight unit.
If you have selected the checkbox for item split, the system takes into account the split quantity.
For all three FUB strategies, the system takes into account hard constraints and incompatibilities (see Incompatibilities).
Planning and Split Quantities
The system copies the units of measure that you define in the planning quantities to the freight units that it creates. They also form the basis for checking the capacity of resources. You define the maximum capacity of a freight unit using the split quantity.
Example
You want to transport 5 tons of cement, but you can only transport it in batches of 500 kg. In this case, you define a split quantity of 500 kg. The system generates 10 freight units.
If the system cannot find the planning unit in the business document, it converts the unit using the values that you have defined in the product master.
Example
You want to transport 5 tons of cement, but you can only transport it in batches of 0.5 m3. In the product master, you have defined that 0.8 m3 of cement is equivalent to 1 ton of cement. The system then converts 5 tons of cement into 4 m3 and generates 8 freight units.
In addition to the split quantity, you can also specify a rounding value. In this case, the system calculates the freight unit quantity as a multiple of the rounding value.
Example
You define the following values:
Product |
1 computer = 1 piece = 0.06 m3 |
Split quantity |
1 m3 |
Rounding value |
1 piece |
Since 1 m3 divided by 0.06 m3 makes 16.67 m3, with this split quantity, the freight unit can contain a maximum of 16 computers.
If you enter 3 pieces as the rounding value, for example, because you can only pack three computers in a box, the freight unit can contain a maximum of 15 computers, since 15 is a multiple of 3 and is less than 16.67.
Document Type
You can control which document type is to result from the generation of freight units (freight unit type or freight order type). You can either enter a document type directly or enter a condition for determining the document type in the enhanced settings. You define freight unit types and freight order types in Customizing. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under:
Planning 
Freight Unit Define Freight Unit Types 
- Freight Order Management Freight Order Define Freight Order Types
If the system determines a freight order type as the document type when generating freight units, it automatically generates freight orders.
Automatic Creation of Freight Orders
If you want a freight order to be created automatically instead of a freight unit, enter a freight order type as the document type or a condition for determining this freight order type.
Example
You specify in a condition that if the quantity exceeds 20 tons, freight order type 1 is to be used, otherwise freight unit type 1 is to be used.
This function is suitable, for example, for the following cases:
In general you want to send small orders that are below one of the upper limits you have defined with an express delivery company.
You always have to transport orders as a full load due to their size.
Process Controller Strategies
You can use strategies to define the way in which freight units are created in accordance with your own requirements. SAP delivers the standard strategy FUB_AUTO for freight unit building. For more information, see Process Controller Configuration.
Activities
You can define FUB rules in SAP NetWeaver Business Client by choosing Application Administration Planning General Planning Settings Freight Unit Building Rule Create Freight Unit Building Rule .