You can record the following information in the shipment document:

• Means of transport

• Service agents

• Deadlines

• Status
• Tendering status
• Route

• Texts

• Output
• Dangerous goods

The means of transport necessary for a shipment is reflected in the system as a handling unit. These handling units contain information about tare weight and -volume of the means of transport as well as the weight of the packed handling unit. Information about the country providing the means of transport, details about the driver and travel time are also included in these handling units. Handling units that have already been created for delivery items are copied into the shipment document where they can be packed further, if necessary. Delivery items that have only been partially packed or not packed at all can be packed in the shipment documents.

You can store information about the service agents (such as forwarding agents or customs agents) who are involved in the transportation process. You can record this information at the header or stage level of the shipment document.

The time required for organizing and performing the various transportation activities is stored as planned and actual deadlines in the shipment document. This information can be used for monitoring and analysis purposes.

• Red light:

• Yellow light:

• Green light:

The tendering status describes the current status of a shipment with respect to negotiations with a forwarding agent through the Internet.

If the route and the forwarding agent are the same in all deliveries, they are copied from the deliveries into the shipment document when you set the status to Planned.

Country-specific restrictions with respect to total weight of the shipment on a particular route require recording the restriction already at the route level. This upper level can be specified at route level and is then taken into consideration during shipment processing. If the allowed total weight is exceeded during delivery assignment to the shipment, the system issues a warning message. The shipment can then be changed accordingly. The fields are displayed on the planning screen.

During order processing and delivery processing, this check is not taken into consideration.

Additional information that could help the transportation process to run smoothly can be entered as text at header level in the shipment document. This information can be accessed by all business partners involved in the process. Shipment text types are defined in Customizing and assigned to text determination procedures. Text determination procedures are defined in the shipment document type.

To conform to the legal requirements with respect to the transportation of dangerous goods, it is important that you check in the shipment document whether transportation of such goods is actually allowed.

Here different dangerous goods checks can run either automatically or through manual request. For example, you can check whether the transportation of certain materials is allowed in certain modes of transport. In this way, you can prevent deliveries or shipments from leaving the company when they are not suited for transport, according to dangerous goods regulations. Also, you can create dangerous goods documents using the respective dangerous goods data.