Creation of a Forwarding Order 
In SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM), you can create forwarding orders (see Forwarding Order) both manually and automatically. You have the following options for creating a forwarding order manually or automatically:
On the basis of a quotation or a template
You first create a forwarding order as a template, or you create a forwarding quotation and use the data entered there to create a forwarding order. A template can contain the most important default data, such as sales organization or incoterms, and thus facilitates the creation of new orders.
As a copy of an existing forwarding order
The new order contains all the data from the copied order. However, no follow-on documents such as freight units or freight orders are assigned to it, and it receives the life cycle status New.
From the order management overview
You create a new forwarding order without reference to another object.
Instead of the complete creation of a forwarding order, you can also first enter the order in a fast entry screen and save it there. This screen provides an overview of the most important data. You can call up the screen again later on and add further data.
Using PI interfaces
You receive the data directly from the customer by means of an SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) interface.
Note that the SOA services of forwarding order management are only released with restrictions. For more information, see SAP Library for SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) on SAP Help Portal under http://help.sap.com
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The following describes how you create a new forwarding order manually. For more information about creating forwarding quotations and their conversion to forwarding orders, see Creation and Editing of a Forwarding Quotation.
Prerequisites
You have created the following profiles in Customizing. Creating these profiles is optional, but you do need them for important follow-up actions such as planning or printing:
Planning Profile
You use the planning profile to determine how further transportation planning, which you can trigger from the forwarding order, runs, or on what basis the system determines the routes. For more information, see Planning Profile.
Output Profile
You can use the output profile to determine which outputs are possible for the forwarding order (print documents and EDI messages). Standard profiles are available, but you can also define your own profile.
For more information, see Customizing for Cross-Application Components under
Processes and Tools for Enterprise Applications Reusable Objects and Functions for BOPF Environment PPF Adapter for Output Management as well as Printing.Dangerous Goods Profile
If you ship dangerous goods with the forwarding order, you can use the dangerous goods profile to make settings for the processing of the dangerous goods items, such as for the output of error messages.
For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under
Basic Functions Dangerous Goods Define Dangerous Goods Profile , as well as Considering Dangerous Goods in SAP Transportation Management.
You have optionally defined a freight unit building rule (FUB rule) and determined a condition for determining the FUB rule. For more information, see Freight Unit Building Rule.
You have defined the forwarding order type in Customizing. You use this document type to determine a series of characteristics for the forwarding order. You can assign the profiles described above and the freight unit building rule or condition to the forwarding order and make specific default settings, such as an automatic confirmation of the forwarding order, or a predefinition of the sales organization.
In addition, you use the forwarding order type to determine the appearance of the user interface. Thus dangerous goods information for the order items is only displayed, for example, if you have assigned a dangerous goods profile to the document type.
For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under
Forwarding Order Management Forwarding Order Define Forwarding Order Types .In Customizing, you have defined a number range interval, within which the system creates the identifiers (IDs) of the forwarding orders of a previously defined type. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under
Forwarding Order Management Define Number Range Intervals for Forwarding Order Management .You have made the settings for creation of order items. For more information, see Creation of Forwarding Order Items or Forwarding Quotation Items.
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In the master data, you have defined the business partners and locations as well as data such as incoterms or service level. For more information, see Master Data.
If you want to have an approval workflow for your forwarding order, you have activated this workflow in Customizing for the document type (see above) and have made the required settings for the workflow. For more information, see Approval Check.
Process
Entering the Forwarding Order Type
You specify the forwarding order type that you defined previously in Customizing. You can also have the system determine the type based on a condition, such as when the order is sent electronically from the ordering party. To do so, you use the /SCMTMS/FWO_TYPE condition type. For more information about defining conditions, see Definition of Conditions.
The forwarding order receives the life cycle status New.
Entering the General Forwarding Order Data
You first create the general data for the forwarding order such as business partners, locations, and dates. Note the following:
If you have defined this data in Customizing for the forwarding order type, the system automatically determines the sales organization.
If you specify a location, the system automatically determines the associated shipper or consignee from the master data. If you specify a business partner, the system determines the associated location data, as long as this data is unique (in other words, only one location exists for which the business partner has been specified in the master data). You can overwrite the location that was automatically determined.
The Incoterms data is considered during planning and invoicing. If you have defined it in the FUB rule, the system automatically plans the Incoterms location into the route. However, if the ordering party differs from the shipper and from the consignee, the system ignores the data.
Determination of the Ordered Route
If you have already received information about the ordered route from the ordering party, you can create the stages of the route. For more information, see Determination of the Ordered Route.
Creating the Order Items
You create the items of a forwarding order in an item hierarchy consisting of container, packaging, and product, for example. Only the top level of this hierarchy is relevant to planning. The quantities and weights of these levels are totaled and copied to the header data.
For more information, see Creation of Forwarding Order Items or Forwarding Quotation Items.
Saving the Forwarding Order
You save the forwarding order. The system now assigns the document an ID from the number range for this document type. In addition, the system checks the entered data for completeness and consistency. The system displays the results of these checks in the form of error messages and as a completeness status.
If you have defined this in Customizing, the system performs a series of automatic functions, such as the following:
Automatic creation of freight units
Automatic confirmation of the forwarding order, with sending of the confirmation to ordering party
Automatic calculation of transportation charges
Check whether the limits for triggering an approval workflow have been exceeded and, if necessary, trigger the workflow.