Determination of the Ordered Route 
When you create a forwarding order in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM), you can also already specify the route requested by the ordering party. To do this, enter the individual transportation stages of the route in the forwarding order. The system then considers the route during further transportation planning.
The result of the transportation planning is also displayed, and you can copy it to the forwarding order.
Features
Ordered Route
Depending on your settings in SAP NetWeaver Business Client, on the tab page or in the Stages assignment block of the forwarding order, you can enter the transportation stages of the route preferred by the ordering party under Ordered Route. If you have already entered the source and destination locations on the Locations and Dates tab, this is displayed as a Complete Carriage. Otherwise you enter the source and destination locations on the Complete Carriage line of your route. The system then automatically transfers this data to the general data on the Locations and Dates tab.
To create additional transportation stages of the ordered route, you have the following options:
As intermediate stages of the complete carriage
If the route only consists up to now of a source location and a destination location and you would like to add an intermediate location, select the Complete Carriage line and choose Insert. The system inserts two further lines with transportation stages to the table. The system copies the data for the source location and the source dates of the complete carriage for the first transportation stage, and it leaves the data of the destination location empty. For the second transportation stage, the system copies the data of the destination location and leaves the source location data empty.
You can enter the new source location data and the destination location data accordingly in the empty fields. If the complete carriage went up to now from location A to location C, you now have, for example, one transportation stage from A to B and a second one from B to C.
As additional stages for already existing stages
You select the line of an existing stage and choose Insert. The system divides this line into two lines and proceeds as described above.
The system considers the route during the next transportation planning. It also forms the basis for the confirmation and invoicing of the forwarding order.
Actual Route
If you have performed transportation planning based on the forwarding order (see Editing of a Forwarding Order), the actual route is displayed under Actual Route. If you have entered an Incoterm location in the general data of the forwarding order and specified it in the freight unit building rule, the system plans this location automatically as an intermediate location.
The route planned by the system is only displayed in the forwarding order and cannot be edited there directly. You can use Copy Actual Route to copy the data in the route requested by the ordering party to the forwarding order. It is then taken into account during the confirmation and invoicing of the forwarding order.
Detail Data
You can enter detail data, such as pickup and delivery dates, address data, and means of transport, for a specific transportation stage. If the system has already determined the address data from the master data of the location, you can overwrite this data. In the Document field, a link to the subcontracting document related to the transportation stage (for example, the freight order or booking order) may be displayed. You can then navigate to this document directly. For the complete carriage, you can also enter a carrier.