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A railcar unit makes up the logistic processing of transports with railcars. It describes the assignment of cargo to a railcar.

 

A railcar unit can comprise one or more railcars. If a customer orders a full carload and you have already defined the railcar items in the forwarding order, the system can create a railcar unit instead of a freight unit during freight unit building. The relevant item in the forwarding order must be of type Passive Vehicle Resource and you must have entered a transportation unit in the freight unit building rule.

If you have not already created the railcar items in the forwarding order, you can use the railcar unit as a consolidation document. This means that the freight unit is created based on a product item, for example. You then assign this product freight unit to the railcar unit. Alternatively, you can assign the freight unit directly to a railcar that you have created in the rail freight order.

You can define several main items for railcar units. You can also work with multi-items (see Items).

A railcar unit must be assigned to a rail freight order (see Rail Freight Order) before you can carry out the follow-on processes. You can assign the individual stages for the railcar unit to one or more rail freight orders. You cannot subcontract railcar units. The railcar unit is used only for logistical purposes and for the assignment of different subcontracting documents.

Within the transportation unit type, you configure the most important settings for the railcar unit. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under   Freight Order Management   Transportation Unit   Define Transportation Unit Types  .

Structure

Railcar units contain the same information as trailer units (see Trailer Unit). The following points are variances:

  • General Data

    Here, you can enter the following data:

    • Source location and destination location (rail)

    • Number of railcars

    • Number of assigned rail freight orders

  • Resources/Equipment

    Information about your railcar is displayed here:

    • Position of a railcar in the train

    • Equipment group and type

    • Railcar details such as whether the railcar belongs to the shipper or the carrier

    • Information about seals

The handling execution status and the cargo execution status behave in the same way as for rail freight orders. For more information, see Rail Freight Order.

Applying Default Routes

You can search for possible routes in your railcar unit based on the source location and destination location (Routing pushbutton). The system uses the default routes to identify various routes, from which you can choose one.