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In freight order management, you can enter items in your business documents.

Note Note

You cannot change items that are transferred from business documents in forwarding order management. For more information about creating items in forwarding order management, see Creation of Forwarding Order Items or Forwarding Quotation Items.

End of the note.

Features

With the exception of containers, items represent either capacity or demand.

  • Capacity

    • Vehicle resource

      You can enter the vehicle ID, the country of registration, and the registration number.

    • Passive vehicle resource (for example, trailer or railcar)

      For trailers, you can enter the trailer ID, the country of registration, and the registration number.

    • Container

      You can enter the number of containers, the capacity, and the equipment group and type.

  • Demand

    • Container

      You can enter the container ID and seal, as well as information about the container such as the ventilation or humidity.

    • Package (for example, pallet)

      You can enter the package ID. You can also specify whether the transport involves overdimensional cargo or non-stackable packages.

    • Product

      You can enter the product ID, the product freight group, and the transportation group.

You can enter the following information for all demand items:

  • Content identification

  • Quantities

  • Customs and dangerous goods information

  • Document references and notes

  • Commodity codes

  • Discrepancies

Each business document can contain only one main item but any number of subitems. Railcar units and container units are an exception. They can have several main items. The item hierarchy determines which item can be loaded into which other item. For example, you cannot load a trailer unit or railcar unit into a package.

Items are displayed on the user interface in the following locations:

  • Cargo and Cargo Management

    Demand items are displayed here.

  • Equipment

    Capacity items are displayed here.

  • Overview

    All items are displayed here.

  • Stages

    The locations in which items are loaded and unloaded are displayed here.

For more information about weights and quantities, see Quantities and Capacities.

For more information about transportation stops, see Transportation Stops.

Item Types

You can define item types in Customizing. The item type enables you to predefine various parameters for an item, for example, whether the item is a multi-item. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under   Freight Order Management   Define Item Types for Freight Order Management  .

By assigning an item type to a document type (such as a freight order type), you can specify which item types are valid for the document type. You can also define a default item type.

For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under:

  •   Freight Order Management   Freight Order   Define Freight Order Types  

  •   Freight Order Management   Freight Booking   Define Freight Booking Types  

  •   Planning   Freight Unit   Define Freight Unit Types  

  •   Freight Order Management   Transportation Unit   Define Transportation Unit Types  

Multi-Items

You can define multi-items for rail freight orders and railcar units. You use multi-items to model the following objects:

  • Multiple railcars of the same category

    In this case, you define the main item as a multi-item in your railcar unit. This enables you to define the railcars and the freight item assignment approximately. (Alternatively, you can assign the freight items to the individual railcars.) You can then assign passive vehicle resources to the multi-item as subitems. These represent the individual railcars and can be used, for example, to assign a seal.

  • Multiple locomotives in a train

    In this case, you define the main item as a multi-item in your rail freight order. You can then assign the vehicle positions to the multi-item as subitems that represent the individual locomotives. Note that during planning, the system considers only the main locomotive that you have specified at header level. The other locomotives are not taken into account during scheduling or when considering incompatibilities.

You specify whether an item is to be a multi-item in Customizing when you define the item type. You can also specify whether subitems are to be generated automatically (or expanded) as soon as you enter a multi-item in a business document. You can select the items types from Customizing on the user interface. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under   Freight Order Management   Define Item Types for Freight Order Management  .

For more information about creating multi-items in rail freight orders, see Scheduling of Freight Orders.