Editing of a Forwarding Order 
After you have created and saved a forwarding order, you can use this business document to perform further actions, such as the following:
Create freight units
Determine route
Start transportation planning
Calculate transportation charges
Create forwarding settlement document
Book freight space
Prerequisites
Process
The following describes an example of a process for editing the forwarding order and starting the transportation planning:
Creation of Freight Units
If the freight units are not created automatically after you save the forwarding order, you trigger the creation manually on the user interface for the forwarding order (Follow-Up Actions menu). In this case, the system considers either the freight unit building rule (FUB rule) or the condition for determining an FUB rule that you have specified in Customizing. After the system has created the freight units, the life cycle status changes from New to In Planning.
You can have the system create the freight units per order item, for example, or define that the system merges as many order items as possible into one freight unit. For more information, see Creation and Editing of Freight Units.
Manual Transportation Planning
You call the transportation cockpit. You enter your planning profile and selection profile and start the planning. The freight units created by the system are displayed in the transportation cockpit.
You can now execute manual transportation planning by pulling the freight units to the resources via drag and drop. The system then creates a freight order, which is displayed in the document flow for the forwarding order. The life cycle status changes to Planned.
For more information about transportation planning, see Planning.
NoteAs an alternative process step to steps 1 and 2, you can have the system determine a route. In doing so, the system generates several alternative routes for each freight unit, one of which you can then accept. In Customizing for the forwarding order type, you can determine whether only the freight units are to be saved when you accept the route or whether the freight orders are to be saved as well. The system adjusts existing freight units.
If the freight orders are also saved, the life cycle status changes to Planned after you accept the proposed route. The route is displayed in the forwarding order in the form of transportation stages. For more information, see Generation of Transportation Proposals.
Instead of manual planning, you can have the system run automatic planning using the VSR optimizer from the transportation cockpit as well. For more information, see VSR Optimization.
End of the note.Calculating Transportation Charges
If the transportation charges were not calculated automatically after you saved the forwarding order, you can have the system calculate these from the forwarding order or you can enter the costs manually in the forwarding order. The system recalculates the transportation charges each time the forwarding order is saved again. However, transportation charges that you entered manually are fixed by the system and are kept during recalculation.
For more information, see Charge Calculation.
Creating a Forwarding Settlement Document
Based on the transportation charge calculation, you can create a forwarding settlement document from the forwarding order. For more information see Forwarding Settlement.
Booking Freight Space
Based on the forwarding order, you can book freight space for the order items. In this case, the system assigns the forwarding order and the freight units directly to the booking and creates a booking order. You can also choose an existing booking order.
For more information about booking freight space, see Creation and Editing of Freight Bookings.
Printing Documents
You can print the forwarding order directly or after previewing it. The default printout contains information such as item descriptions and weights. If you have entered your order items in an item hierarchy, information about the lower hierarchy levels are also displayed.
The print history is displayed in the forwarding order. This history also contains information about all the documents you have faxed or sent by e-mail or EDI.
Changing or Canceling the Forwarding Order
You can change the data in the forwarding order, such dates and quantities, at any time. The system adjusts the freight units to the changes accordingly. The life cycle status can then change back to In Planning. In this case, you have to perform a new planning.
If you cancel the forwarding order, the planning becomes invalid. The system deletes the freight units. The life cycle status changes to Canceled. Note that the cancellation is irreversible.
For more information, see Processing of Changes and Deletion of Forwarding Orders and Forwarding Quotations.
Executing a Forwarding Order
You can use SAP Event Management to monitor the further execution of the forwarding order. To do this, you need to have set the corresponding indicator in Customizing for the document type. The forwarding order receives a tracking number (tracking ID) upon creation. You can provide this number to your ordering party, who can then use it to track the execution of the order on a special Web user interface. The system later creates event handlers for the follow-on documents freight unit and freight order. For more information, see Integration with SAP Event Management.
Irrespective of SAP Event Management, the system displays the execution status in the forwarding order. It mirrors the execution status of the freight order.