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You can assign schedules to your freight orders and freight bookings (see Schedule).

Prerequisites

  • You have defined schedules and schedule types. For more information, see Schedule Creation.

  • You have assigned the same transportation mode to the schedule and the freight booking or freight order.

Features

The system copies the relevant data (for example, locations and times/dates as well as the carrier) to the freight booking or the freight order. If you have defined capacities in the schedule, these are also copied automatically to the freight booking or freight posting.

If you have not created the schedule as a template and you change data in the schedule, the system does not automatically update the freight booking or the freight order. As there is a connection between the schedule and your freight booking or freight order, you cannot change the relevant data in the freight booking or freight order manually. However, it is displayed in the document when an assigned schedule or a departure has changed (Schedule Data Status). You can display whether data has changed and, if so, which data that was. To do so, click the status in the Schedule Data Status field or click the traffic light. You can update the data in the document using Update from Schedule. For more information, see Schedule.

Note Note

If you require an automatic update, you can create your own strategy and then specify this in your schedule type (CC strategy).

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If you have created the schedule as a template, the system does not update the freight booking or freight order. In this case, there is no connection to a schedule so you can change the relevant data in the freight booking or in the freight order.

When you assign a schedule to an air freight booking, a master-air-waybill number is drawn automatically. The prerequisite is that you have entered an air waybill stock ID.

Assignment of schedules at transportation stage level

You can assign a carrier schedule to one or more transportation stages of a freight booking. The system copies all carrier information and the planned dates/times into the freight booking. If the freight booking contains several transportation stages, you only have to select the first and last transportation stage. Depending on which carrier schedule you assign, the system adjusts the transportation stages of the freight booking automatically. This function is only supported for schedules without gateways. For more information, see Schedule.

Activities

You assign schedules on the following user interfaces:

  • User interfaces for creating freight orders and freight postings

    To do so, choose one of the following paths in SAP NetWeaver Business Client:

    •   Freight Order Management   Road   Create Road Freight Orders  

    •   Freight Order Management   Rail   Create Rail Freight Orders  

    •   Freight Order Management   Air   Create Air Freight Booking  

    •   Freight Order Management   Ocean   Create Ocean Freight Booking  

  • Transportation Cockpit

    For more information, see Creation of Freight Documents from Resources .