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The following process describes how you can determine dates and times in a freight order.

Note Note

Transportation units are scheduled together with the freight orders. In schedule-based freight bookings, the system determines the dates/times from the schedule.

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Prerequisites

  • You have entered the required master data, such as resources and transportation lanes. For more information, see Master Data. You have also made the settings needed to determine the lane, distance, and duration. For more information, see Lane, Distance, and Duration Determination (LDDD).

  • If required, you have specified in the freight unit type how you want the dates/times to be transferred (Rule for PU/DLV Window and Cond. for PU/DLV Window Determ. fields). For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under   Planning   Freight Unit   Define Freight Unit Types  .

Process

  1. Create a forwarding order and enter your requested and acceptable dates/times. For more information, see Creation of a Forwarding Order and Time Windows. You do not have to enter dates/times. If you do not enter any dates/times, the system determines these during scheduling.

  2. Save the forwarding order. The system creates freight units automatically if you have defined this in Customizing for your forwarding order type. For more information, see Creation of a Forwarding Order. According to the settings for the freight unit type, the system copies the dates/times from the forwarding order to the freight units.

  3. Create a freight order in the transportation cockpit or from the forwarding order. For more information, see Creation and Editing of Freight Orders. The system copies the dates/times to the freight order as planned departure and arrival dates/times.

  4. You can also enter the following dates/times:

    • Cut-off dates/times (such as cargo cut-off date/time) and availability dates/times

    • Appointments (see Appointment)

  5. Schedule your freight order. The system adjusts the departure and arrival dates/times in the freight order and determines the loading and unloading dates/times for the related freight units. During scheduling, the system takes into account a set of constraints.

    It determines the duration of transportation when it determines the distance and duration. It determines the loading and unloading durations based on the durations you entered in the planning profile or using the condition entered here. The determination of durations using the condition are based on the freight unit, the means of transport, or both.

    You can use user parameter /SCMTMS/SCH_FORCE to force automatic forward scheduling after data has been changed. The system then fixes the departure date/time.

    For more information, see Scheduling.

    The system takes into account dependencies between the dates/times of freight unit stages and the related freight orders regardless of whether you schedule a freight order. This means that it calculates the acceptable end date of a freight unit stage by considering the start date of the following stage and the goods wait time that you defined for the location. If there are conflicting dates/times, it sets the corresponding status automatically when it checks all the documents (cross-document check status). For more information, see Explanation of Statuses of Business Documents.

  6. If you change the requested and acceptable dates/times in the forwarding order, the system copies the changes automatically to the freight units. If your freight order is not yet in execution, the changes are also copied automatically to the freight order. If your freight order is already in execution, the system sets an execution block if there are conflicting dates/times.

    If you change the planned departure and arrival dates/times in the freight order, the system adjusts automatically the loading and unloading dates/times in the freight unit.

    Note Note

    In the change controller you specify how you want the system to react to changes to your business documents. For more information, see Change Controller.

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Example

The table below contains example dates for this process (for the sake of simplicity, only dates are used).

Business Document

Dates Entered Manually

Dates Copied by the System

Result of Scheduling

Dates Changed Manually

Dates Updated by the System

Forwarding order:

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Requested pick-up date

2013-10-06

Not applicable

Not applicable

2013-10-07

Not applicable

Freight units:

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Requested pick-up date (start)

Not applicable

2013-10-06

Not applicable

Not applicable

2013-10-07

Requested pick-up date (end)

Not applicable

2013-10-06

Not applicable

Not applicable

2013-10-07

Acceptable pick-up date (start)

Not applicable

2013-10-06

Not applicable

Not applicable

2013-10-07

Requested delivery date (end)

Not applicable

2013-10-08

Not applicable

Not applicable

2013-10-09

Loading date (start)

Not applicable

Not applicable

2013-10-07

Not applicable

2013-10-08

Loading date (end)

Not applicable

Not applicable

2013-10-07

Not applicable

2013-10-08

Unloading date (start)

Not applicable

Not applicable

2013-10-09

Not applicable

2013-10-09

Unloading date (end)

Not applicable

Not applicable

2013-10-09

Not applicable

2013-10-09

Freight order:

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Planned departure date

Not applicable

2013-10-07

2013-10-07

2013-10-08

Not applicable

Planned arrival date

Not applicable

2013-10-09

2013-10-09

2013-10-10

Not applicable