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The system automatically creates freight units from the following business documents:

  • Forwarding orders

  • Order-based transportation requirements

  • Delivery-based transportation requirements

It considers, for example, freight unit creation rules during this process. You can then split or merge the freight units created.

Prerequisites

  • Business documents exist.

  • If you would like the system to automatically create freight units when forwarding orders are saved, you have selected the checkbox for automatic freight unit building in Customizing for the forwarding order type. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under   Forwarding Order Management   Forwarding Order   Define Forwarding Order Types  .

  • You have defined freight unit types in Customizing. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under   Planning   Freight Unit   Define Freight Unit Types  .

  • You have defined freight unit building rules (FUB rules) and assigned freight unit types to them (see Freight Unit Building Rule).

  • Optionally, you have defined incompatibilities (see Incompatibilities).

Features

Automatic Creation of Freight Units

First, the system groups all business document items under consideration of the following parameters:

  • Hard constraints (source location and destination location as well as pick-up and delivery dates)

  • Business document attributes and packaging information

  • Incompatibilities

  • FUB rules

Here the system takes into account freight units that already exist for these business documents.

The system then creates one or more freight units from these groups. If you have defined a split quantity and have selected the checkbox for the item split, the system takes these entries into account when creating multiple freight units.

In the case of automatically creating freight units, you can specify an FUB rule. If you do not specify an FUB rule, the system automatically determines the FUB rule. For more information, see Determination of Freight Unit Building Rules. In the FUB rule, you can enter, for example, that freight orders or trailer documents are created automatically instead of freight units (see Trailer Document). For more information, see Freight Unit Building Rule and Direct Creation of Freight Orders.

You can also create freight units in the background (see Background Processing: Forwarding Order Management Preparation). However, we recommend that you use automatic creation.

You can use strategies to create freight units in accordance with your own requirements. SAP delivers the standard strategy FUB_AUTO for freight unit building. For more information, see Process Controller Configuration.

The system automatically creates, for example, freight units when you save your forwarding order. For more information, see Editing of a Forwarding Order.

Manual Splitting and Merging of Freight Units

You can manually split or merge the freight units that the system has created automatically. You can use drag and drop to merge the freight units.

Note Note

  • When splitting freight units, the target freight unit is the freight unit that takes on the product items (or partial quantities of these items) that are split off and that is created during the split.

  • When merging freight units, the target freight unit is the existing freight unit that takes on the product items (or partial quantities of these items) that are split off.

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In the case of product items, you can split off or merge partial quantities. When doing so, you must specify the required quantity. You can split or merge package items and container items if they do not have any subitems, for example, products.

Note Note

  • If empty freight units are created during splitting, the system does not immediately delete them. You can fill them again. If they are still empty when you save, the system deletes them.

  • You can split a freight unit several times. If your freight unit contains, for example, 100 tons, you can enter 10 tons as the split quantity and 5 as the number of item splits. The system splits the freight unit into 5 freight units, each containing 10 tons. The original freight unit then still contains 50 tons.

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For manual splitting and merging, the system checks the following parameters:

  • Source location, destination location, and Incoterms

    The system can only split or merge freight units if these parameters match the source freight unit and target freight unit.

  • Incompatibilities for which you have specified in the Manual Violation field that the incompatibility must not be violated during manual planning

  • Partial quantities

    You are not allowed to split off or merge partial quantities for package items or container items.

These hard checks are mandatory.

The function for splitting and merging is available on the following user interfaces:

  • Transportation cockpit

  • User interface for displaying freight units

  • Freight unit table in the planning overview