Freight Order

Order for which execution is planned by a carrier or the shipper. The freight order contains the following:

Plan for the logistical processing, for example when and onto which vehicle, freight units are to be loaded
Planned departure times for the vehicle
Execution data

You use freight orders primarily for land transportation (road freight order) and rail transportation (see Rail Freight Order).

You define the most important settings for the freight order in the freight order type. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under Freight Order Management Freight Order Define Freight Order Types .

You can create freight orders in various ways (see Creation and Editing of Freight Orders).

You can plan loads for freight orders (see Load Planning). You can also select carriers (see Carrier Selection). You can then either subcontract freight orders directly to a carrier or you can first perform tendering (see External Communication in Overland Transportation and Freight Tendering).

You can use the change controller to define how the system is to react to changes (see Change Controller).

Structure

Freight orders contain the following information:

Planning information, for example, planned means of transport and stages (transportation stops)
This comprises information about what is to be transported with the freight order as well as hierarchical dependencies (packaging information). For more information, see Freight Document Overview.

You can also define appointments. For more information, see Appointment.
Business partner
Locations and dates/times
At stage level you can enter one-time locations and additional addresses (one-time addresses). The system stores these new locations and addresses and adjusts stages in the document. It also adjusts the locations or addresses in the assigned requirements (freight units).

Note
However, you should continue to make changes to existing locations in the master data.

End of the note.
Items
The following information is displayed here:
- Quantities and weights (see Quantities and Capacities)
- Goods information (see Goods Information)
- Corresponding freight orders (see Pick-up and Delivery Freight Orders)
- Dangerous goods information (see Considering Dangerous Goods).
- Seal information (see Use of Seals)
- Information about foreign trade (see Integration with SAP Global Trade Services)
- House bill of lading (see Building of House Bills of Lading and House Air Waybills)
You can use Change Hierarchy to decide whether all or only specific items are displayed. This includes:
- Service items (see Service Items)
- Cargo items (see Cargo Management)
The Items tab page replaces the Cargo tab page. You can personalize your user interface in such a way that the system displays the old Cargo tab page.
Information about transportation stages, for example, durations and distances
Diagrams
You can display the utilization of a freight order for each stage and each relevant dimension. This function is also available in the transportation cockpit.
Subcontracting information, for example, carriers and their prices as well as tendering information
You can also enter a freight agreement, freight agreement version, and freight agreement item. The freight agreement and freight agreement version are used to calculate the charges. The freight agreement item is relevant for service items (see Service Items).
Execution information, for example, actual departure times
Furthermore, you can directly report events.
Transportation charges (see Charge Calculation) and cost distribution (see Cost Distribution Management)
Customs-relevant information (see Integration with SAP Global Trade Services)
Status information and blocking information (see Statuses of Business Documents and Blocking Information)
Output management, for example, print documents
As a prerequisite, you have configured the settings for output management in the freight order type (for example, output profile). For more information, see Printing.

To print the parcel manifest and label, you must enter output profile /SCMTMS/TOR_LBL_PRINT in the freight order type.
Document dependencies as well as predecessor and successor documents (document flow)
Transportation dependencies, in other words, logistical dependencies
Other information
- Attachments
- Notes
- Document references (in other words, additional external references)
- Administration information
- Change documents (see Change Tracking)

More Information

Use of Seals

Freight Orders with Non-Linear Stages

Creation of Forwarding Orders from Freight Orders

Classification of Goods

Nature of Goods

Scheduling

Transportation Service Levels