Freight Document 

Definition

Document that reflects the result of planning and consolidating shipments and that is used in collective goods traffic, for example. The freight document determines the load on a vehicle.

Use

The freight document is relevant to transferring planning results and to printing, and maps trips as well as multiple pickups and stops.

You can create freight documents both manually and automatically.

You define the freight document type in Customizing for Transportation Management (TM). It contains all the important control parameters for the freight document.

You can manually set statuses in the freight document, for example, Transportation Completed. In this case, this status is set automatically for all the bills of lading contained in the freight document. These are then printed automatically. You can also print master bills of lading and freight lists from the freight document. For more information about printing, see Post Processing Framework.

Structure

The freight document contains data such as:

●      Transportation details (for example, route, transportation mode)

●      Business partners

●      Statuses

●      Dates/times (for example, loading date, pickup, arrival)

●      Loading or unloading sequence

●      Reference documents

Integration

The automatic creation of freight documents occurs using an IDoc. Changes that you have made manually or changes that were communicated using an IDoc (such as changed dates/times, transportation details, or statuses) are transferred automatically to the shipments contained in the freight document. If you set the status Transportation Completed, for example, in the freight document, it is also set automatically for all shipments contained in the freight document.

The IDoc structure of the freight document can be mapped to the EDIFACT standard IFCSUM (International Forwarding and/or Transport Message Consolidation Summary).

The creation of freight documents can also be triggered from the Shipping and Receiving area, by sending a final load message or a load message to TM. These two messages can also be mapped to the EDIFACT standard IFCSUM.

For more information about creating freight documents, see Creation of Freight Documents.