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Creating hierarchical views for freight order management (FOM) allows you to organize the view for freight orders and freight bookings as well as for trailer units, railcar units, and container units.

Prerequisites

You have configured the relevant Customizing settings to allow you to use hierarchies in the individual documents. The following hierarchy types are predefined by default:

  • CRGAB for air waybills (air freight)

  • CRGAC for cargo management (air freight)

  • CRGAU for cargo management with non-confirmed items (air freight)

  • CRGLA for cargo management (all locations) (land)

  • CRGLC for cargo management (current locations only) (land)

  • CRGOC for cargo management (ocean freight)

  • CRGRC for cargo management (current locations only) (rail)

  • CRGRA for cargo management (all locations) (rail)

  • EQUIR for equipment (rail)

  • EQUIT for equipment (independent of transportation mode)

  • HBL for house bills of lading

  • SERV for the service items view

  • ITEM for a generic view of all items

You can also define hierarchies with separate hierarchy types and groupings. You can specify the function (consumer) that each hierarchy type can use. Furthermore, you can specify a UIBB configuration to structure your user interface to meet your requirements. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under   Freight Order Management   Define Hierarchical Views for Freight Documents  .

For more information about FPM BOPF Integration (FBI), see Reusable Objects and Functions for the BOPF Environment (CA-EPT-BRC).

Note Note

View switches are not relevant for freight order management.

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Features

You can select the required hierarchy type in the individual documents. This allows you to specify how the items are to be displayed. This includes which hierarchy levels are displayed and according to which attributes items are to be grouped.

The following items and assigned documents are displayed for the hierarchy type CRGAU, for example:

  • Unit load device items

  • Forwarding orders

  • Freight units

  • Cargo items

The forwarding orders are grouped according to organization interaction status and house air waybill status.

Activities

You can change the hierarchy type by choosing Change Hierarchy on the following user interfaces:

  • Freight order and rail freight order: Items tab page

    Note Note

    The Items tab page replaces the Cargo and Equipment tab pages. You can personalize your user interface in such a way that the system displays the old tab pages.

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  • Transportation unit (trailer unit, railcar unit, and container unit): Cargo tab page

  • Ocean freight booking: Cargo Management tab page

  • Air freight booking: Capacity and Cargo tab page

More Information

Hierarchical views are also used in planning (transportation cockpit). For more information, see Use of Hierarchical Views.