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You can use this function to create freight orders directly from a business document in forwarding order management (FWM business documents). The following describes the aspects that are specific to freight orders. For more information about the aspects that are specific to forwarding orders, see Direct Creation of Freight Documents and Selection of Schedules.

Features

The system creates a freight order directly when you save an FWM business document (forwarding order, order-based or delivery-based transportation requirement) if the following requirements have been met:

  • The FWM business document is subcontracted and not consolidated with other FWM business documents.

  • The FWM business document can be delivered in one freight order, meaning there is no pre-carriage or on-carriage.

  • The FWM business document only has one source location and one destination location.

The following options exist:

  • FWM business document type determines the freight order creation

    A freight order is to be created directly for FWM business documents of a certain FWM business document type (for example, a certain business document type for forwarding orders that are subcontracted directly or for delivery-based transportation requirements that are always delivered directly).

    This is the case if a freight unit building rule is found in which you have assigned a freight order type to your FWM business documents (for example, forwarding order type).

  • FWM business document attributes determine the freight order creation

    Depending on the FWM business document attributes, for example, ERP document type, the system decides whether a freight order can or cannot be created.

    This is the case if the condition for determining the freight order type finds a freight unit building rule in which you have defined a freight order type as a business document type. You have assigned this condition to your FWM business document type, for example, forwarding order type, for cases in which the FWM business documents, such as a forwarding order, are to be directly converted to a freight order.

  • Quantity determines freight order creation

    An FWM business document, for example, a forwarding order, can have a total quantity that exceeds the truck size. As a result, the system creates several freight units where the split quantity determines the number of freight units in the freight unit building rule. This can also include cases in which a freight unit is created in truck size and a freight unit is to be consolidated.

    This is the case if a freight unit building rule is found in which you have assigned a condition for determining the freight order type or freight unit type to the business document type. This condition is then called for the freight units created. Based on the condition, the system decides whether to create a freight order or a freight unit. If the condition finds a freight unit type dependent on the size of the freight unit, for example, the system converts the freight unit to a freight order.

You cannot add further freight units to such directly created freight orders.