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You can use this function to create, edit, and display freight bookings.

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  .

  • If you want to create ocean freight bookings for loose cargo, you have made the following settings in your freight booking type:

    • You have specified /SCMTMS/FRE_BOOK_OCEAN_LOOSE as the the Web Dynpro application configuration.

    • In the Container Item Source field, you have chosen the Container Item is Taken from Predecessor Documents option.

    When you create ocean freight bookings with this freight booking type, you can enter a capacity on the related user interface instead of the container data, meaning a certain weight or volume (or both), and calculate the utilization.

  • If you want to create ocean freight bookings for multi-pickups or multi-deliveries (for bulk material scenarios, for example), you have made the following settings in your freight booking type:

    • In the FB for Multi-PU/DL field, you have specified that several ports of loading and ports of discharge are allowed.

    • In the Consolidation (Source) and Consolidation (Dest.) fields, you have selected the option Without Consolidation.

    • As the Web Dynpro application configuration, you have entered /SCMTMS/FRE_BOOK_OCEAN_BULK. A specific user interface is then available for creating and changing these ocean freight bookings. In addition, there is a specific object type in your personal worklist for selecting these ocean freight bookings.

    • You have assigned the predefined shipping type Bulk Material to your ocean freight booking. You have selected the Freight Items Must not Be Assigned to Equipment Item option in the Assignment to Equipment Item field in this shipping type. This means that the Not Relevant option is automatically selected in the Container Item Source field of your freight booking type.

Features

Creation of Freight Bookings

You have the following options:

  • Manual Creation

    For more information, see Manually Creating Freight Bookings.

  • Creation from a Forwarding Order

    You can create freight bookings directly when creating forwarding orders. For more information, see Direct Creation of Freight Documents and Selection of Schedules.

    The further steps, for example, sending the freight booking to the shipping company or the airline, are done in manual creation.

  • Creation from the Transportation Cockpit

    You can create a freight booking manually in the transportation cockpit. To do this, choose New and then the required option, depending on whether you want to create a freight booking for sea or air transportation. Enter the required data (based on the creation from a forwarding order).

    For more information about the transportation cockpit, see Interactive Planning.

  • Creation by Copying

    You can create a freight order by copying an existing one (reference document). The system copies the header data and the logistical data. However, it does not copy references to freight units and the confirmed capacity.

  • Creation Based on a Schedule

    You can use the report /SCMTMS/MP_SCHED_CREATE_TOR to create a freight booking based on a schedule. For further information, see the system documentation.

Editing and Displaying of Freight Bookings

You can edit and display freight bookings on the following user interfaces:

  • Freight Booking Table

    You can do this in SAP NetWeaver Business Client, for example for air freight:   Freight Order Management   Air   Overview Air Freight Bookings   or   Planning   Worklist   Planning Overview  .

  • User Interfaces for Editing and Displaying

    For air freight, for example, go to SAP NetWeaver Business Client and choose   Freight Order Management   Air   Edit Air Freight Booking  , or Display Air Freight Booking.

    Note Note

    You can display various task-specific views of the air freight booking using the Page function.

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  • Transportation Cockpit

    You can assign freight units in the transportation cockpit of a freight booking, which you have already created manually or created from a forwarding order. You can assign the freight units either manually or automatically. In the second case, select the freight booking, the resource, and the freight units and then start VSR optimization for the selected objects.

    To do this, go to SAP NetWeaver Business Client and choose   Planning   Planning   Transport Cockpit  .

    Freight bookings are only displayed in the transportation cockpit if they match the criteria of the selection profile for freight orders and freight bookings (see Use of Profile and Layout Sets).