Air Cargo Security Check and Statuses

If you enable the air cargo security check, the air cargo security status and the country-specific security status must be specified in the relevant business documents (that is, forwarding order, freight units, and air freight booking). You also activate automatic checks that prevent further processing if data is missing or inconsistent. You enable the air cargo security check for your business document types in Customizing for Transportation Management. In addition, you define the required country-specific security statuses and you assign an air cargo security status to each of them. The following air cargo security statuses are available:

In Customizing for Transportation Management, you can specify that planning and execution are to be blocked if a freight unit has a specific air cargo security status. In addition, planning is automatically blocked if the air cargo security status has not been set in the freight units or the air freight booking. During planning, the system checks if the air cargo security status of the freight units and the air freight booking are compatible. If the statuses are incompatible, the system blocks planning in the case of automatic planning, or issues error or warning messages depending on the user’s authorizations in the case of manual planning.

Cargo Handover Party

Information about the cargo handover party is specified in the forwarding order on the Air Cargo Security tab page. This data comprises the security status of the cargo handover party (for example, known shipper or regulated agent); the official code used to identify the cargo handover party (for example, known shipper code or regulated agent code); and the expiry date of the security status.

You can store this data in the master data for the pick-up location or the business partner and have the system copy the data to the forwarding order. The regulations in the countries to which you transport cargo determine whether you choose the location or business partner master data. For example, in the United States, the authorities are interested in the security status of the cargo handover party for a specific pick-up location. In other countries, the authorities are interested in the overall security status of the cargo handover party, regardless of the pick-up location.

Shipper Known Long Enough

The system can calculate automatically whether you have known a shipper long enough in order to accept cargo from the shipper as secure. For example, the relevant authority in the United States has defined that if cargo is to be transported to the United States, a logistics service provider (LSP) must have known a shipper for a minimum of 180 days on the date the cargo is picked up. If the LSP has not known the shipper long enough, the LSP must treat the cargo as non-secure, even if the shipper is registered as a known shipper in the United States.

If you have made the required settings in Customizing for Transportation Management, information about whether you have known a shipper long enough is automatically displayed in the forwarding order on the Air Cargo Security tab page. The system also checks if you have known a shipper long enough during planning, and after planning if relevant changes are made. Note that the system checks if an LSP has known a shipper long enough only if a country-specific offset has been entered for the country of the destination location, transit location, or intermediate stop.

Change the Country-Specific Air Cargo Security Status for Multiple Freight Units

Previously, the system allowed you to change the Country-Specific Air Cargo Security Status of individual freight units only – it was not possible to simultaneously change this status for multiple freight units. It is now possible to set the Country-Specific Air Cargo Security Status of two or more freight units in a single action.

Air Cargo Security Authorization Check

You can manage the group of persons authorized to manually assign unsafe items to an air freight booking.  The Air Cargo Security Authorization Check works in conjunction with the Air Cargo Security (ACS) Check.

The ACS Check verifies a user’s authorization according to organization unit.  If you enable the Air Cargo Security Authorization Check for a freight booking type, the system instead runs an authorization check on any user working with that freight booking type, according to the user’s role assignment.