A nomination is a scheduling document that is used to schedule bulk shipments of agricultural commodity products. It provides detailed shipment information and serves as a communication link between the carrier, customer, and all other parties that are connected in a transport. Each nomination has one or more line items per material. You create a nomination by calling the nomination maintenance transaction, O4NM. In the maintenance screen, you create a nomination by using any of the following combinations of criteria:

The nomination cross-references the information in the criteria combinations above and contains references to contract optionalities such as load location, discharge location, payment terms, mode of transport, load rate, and discharge rate. You can define or change optionalities at the nomination level. Once you have confirmed a nomination, you refer the nomination in question for further document postings in the Load Data Capture (LDC) screen.