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In Export/Import, you can use shipper's consolidation (SCO) to amalgamate orders originating from a single supplier that are destined for different consignees.

Prerequisites

You have defined freight booking types in Customizing. You define the most important settings for the freight booking in the freight booking type. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under   Freight Order Management   Freight Booking   Define Freight Booking Types  

You have made the settings required for the forwarding order. For more information, see Settings for the Forwarding Order

Process

  1. Create a freight booking

    You first enter the general data for your freight booking, for example:

    • Shipper, consignee, and carrier

    • Locations, for example, port of loading and port of discharge

    • Dates and times, for example, departure date and expected arrival date

    You must specify an Import Organization.

    For more information see Creation and Editing of Freight Bookings

  2. Create a forwarding order

    1. You specify the forwarding order type and transportation mode.

    2. From the Buyer's or Shipper's Consolidation dropdown, you choose SC.

    3. You specify FCL (Full Container Load) as the shipping type.

    4. You specify Door to Door as the movement type.

    5. You create a container – this has no consignee as it will be deconsolidated prior to any deliveries.

    6. You create package items in the container – one for each consignee. On package level define business partner and consignee.

    For more information see Creation of a Forwarding Order

  3. Assign the forwarding order to the export freight booking

    1. Set the status of the export freight booking to Shipped on Board in an ocean scenario, or to Uplift Confirmed in an air scenario.

Once you save the freight booking, the system creates the import documents – one import freight booking containing multiple import forwarding orders, at least one for each consignee.