Freight Order 
Order whose execution is planned by a carrier or the shipper. The freight order contains the following:
Plan for the logistical processing, for example, when and onto which vehicle freight units are to be loaded
Planned departure times for the vehicle
Execution data
You use freight orders above all for land transportation.
You define the most important settings for the freight order in the freight order type. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under 
Freight Order Management 
Freight Order Define Freight Order Types 
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You can create freight orders in various ways (see Creation and Editing of Freight Orders).
You can perform carrier selection for freight orders (see Carrier Selection). You can then either subcontract freight orders directly to a carrier or you can first perform tendering (see External Communication in Overland Transportation and Freight Tendering).
You can use the change controller to define how the system is to react to changes (see Change Controller).
Structure
Freight orders contain the following information:
Planning information, for example, planned means of transport and stages (transportation stops)
This comprises information about what is to be transported with the freight order as well as hierarchical dependencies (packaging information). For more information, see Freight Order Overview.
You can define appointments on the Overview tab page. These are windows with which you can define when the delivery or pickup at the customer is to take place. You can define acceptable dates/times and requested dates/times.
If the carrier makes an appointment with a customer on your behalf and includes this in his or her tendering response, it is also displayed here.
To define appointments, double-click a transportation stop. In this case, a tab page for dates/times is displayed in the lower section where you can define your appointments.
Additional business partners
Document dependencies as well as predecessor and successor documents (document flow)
Transportation charges (see Charge Calculation)
Transportation dependencies, in other words, logistical dependencies
Execution information, for example, actual departure times
Furthermore, you can directly report events.
House bill of lading
In accordance with the process controller strategy MBL_BUILD, service TM_MBL_CRE, the system groups all items that have the same shipper and consignee and that are loaded and unloaded at the same time. It automatically creates a house bill of lading for these items.
As a prerequisite for this, you have specified a number range for house bills of lading in the freight order type.
Output management, for example, print documents
As a prerequisite, you have configured the settings for output management in the freight order type (for example, output profile)
Customs-relevant information (see Integration with SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services)
Status information and blocking information (see Statuses of Business Documents and Blocking Information)
Information about transportation stages, for example, durations and distances
Subcontracting information, for example, carriers and their prices as well as tendering information
Dangerous goods information (see Considering Dangerous Goods in SAP Transportation Management).
Other information
Attachments
Notes
Document references (in other words, additional external references)
Administration information
Change documents (see Change Tracking)