Creation of Freight Documents 
Use
You can create freight documents in different ways. Freight documents reflect the result of planning and consolidating shipments. They are used as the basis for creating loads on vehicles.
Prerequisites
· You have defined the following in Customizing for Transportation Management (TM):
¡ Transportation planning points
¡ Settings for transportation planning point determination and assignment to an external transportation planning system (TPS), if you want to use an external TPS
¡ Shipment types and freight document types
¡ Settings for shipment type determination, if you want to use your own document types, and settings for freight document type determination
Features
You can create freight documents in the following ways:
· If you have connected an external transportation planning system (TPS), the planned shipments are sent automatically via IDoc to this TPS. In the TPS, you plan the transportation; for example, you can group shipments that are to be transported with the same vehicle or you can change dates/times. The result of transportation planning is a freight document. This is sent back automatically to Transportation Management (TM).
If the vehicle is not yet known in shipping and receiving, a vehicle, a transportation unit (TU), and a vehicle activity are automatically created there.
You can maintain the freight document in TM. For example, you can change transportation details such as the means of transport or the dates/times. The relevant shipments, deliveries, and vehicles are updated automatically.
· If you have not connected an external TPS, you create the freight document manually in TM. When doing this, you group multiple planned shipments that are to be or can be transported together. To do this, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Goods Receipt and Shipping ® Transportation ® Maintain Freight Document.
If the vehicle is not yet known in shipping and receiving, a vehicle, a transportation unit (TU), and a vehicle activity are automatically created there.
· If deliveries have already been assigned to vehicles or transportation units (TUs) in shipping and receiving, a freight document is automatically created or updated via a message in TM. The system also automatically updates assignments between shipments and freight documents and sets the status Planning Fixed by Execution. You must not change the documents in TM. The data merely serves as a source of information and as a prerequisite for the automatic creation of bills of lading and for printing. In this case, the following paragraph is not relevant.
After a freight document has been created, the relevant shipments and deliveries are automatically updated with the planned transportation data, for example, vehicle. The outbound delivery orders get the status Transportation Planning End.
See also:
Integration of TM with the Loading Process