Forwarding Settlement Document
A document that is sent to SAP ERP to request the creation of an invoice to be sent to a customer.
You can use the forwarding settlement document (FWSD) to enter the data for transportation invoicing for your business partners on the ordering party side, and forward it to SAP ERP for invoicing. SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) calculates the transportation charges on the basis of a forwarding order (FWO). You can manually change the transportation charges. After an SAP NetWeaver® Exchange Infrastructure (XI) message is sent to SAP ERP, the actual invoicing takes place in the SAP ERP system.
You can create an individual FWSD for one FWO or a collective FWSD for multiple FWOs. You can also create multiple FWSDs at the same time.
Structure
The FWSD data is taken from the FWOs. However, you can still change some of the data.
The FWSD consists of the following tab pages:
General Data
The system displays general data such as the following:
Settlement document type
Invoice date
Sales organization
Payment terms
Net amount
Document currency
You can change some of the data, such as the invoice date and payment terms.
Business Partner
The system displays the bill-to party and payer by default. You can use business partner determination to specify how the system assigns business partners to forwarding settlement documents.
Charges
The system displays the transportation charges determined by the transportation charge for each FWSD item. The FWSD item could be either an FWO or individual items of the FWO, depending on the calculation level settings in the calculation profile. For more information about the calculation profile, see Customizing for
Transportation Management
under
Basic Functions
Charge Calculation
Basic Settings
Define Calculation Profiles
. In the case of collective FWSDs, the system shows the total amount for all the FWOs assigned to the FWSD. You can change this data.Orders
The system displays the list of FWOs or FWO items that are being settled with this FWSD, depending on the calculation level settings in the calculation profile.
For FWSDs that you create for FWOs that are part of a buyer’s consolidation, the system displays the freight booking document that has the container item of the buyer’s consolidation. In the
Details
area of the screen, the system displays the container item and the FWOs that are part of the container.For FWSDs that you create for FWOs that have a trailer-unit-based settlement basis, the system displays the relevant trailer unit. In the
Details
area of the screen, the system displays the FWOs in the trailer unit for a bill-to party. For more information, see Trailer-Unit-Based Settlement.For FWSDs that you create for FWOs that have a route-based settlement basis, the system displays the relevant freight order document. In the
Details
area of the screen, the system displays the forwarding orders associated with the freight order. For more information, see Route-Based Settlement.Document Flow
The system displays the predecessor and successor business documents as a document flow, including the corresponding SAP ERP documents. You can access both the SAP TM and SAP ERP business documents if there is a trusted relationship between the SAP TM and SAP ERP systems and your user exists in both systems.
The life cycle status indicates the current stage of the FWSD in the business process. Important life cycle statuses are listed in the following table:
Life Cycle Status | Description |
|---|---|
| The FWSD is ready for you to transfer for invoicing in SAP ERP. |
| SAP ERP successfully created the invoice. |
| You transferred the FWSD to SAP ERP for invoicing and the status in SAP ERP is not yet known. |
| You requested the cancellation of the FWSD and SAP TM is waiting for the corresponding invoice to be canceled in SAP ERP. |
| You canceled the FWSD and SAP ERP automatically canceled the invoice. |
| You successfully created and transferred an FWSD to SAP ERP. In Customizing for When SAP TM successfully canceled the FWSD and SAP ERP successfully canceled the billing document, SAP TM changed the lifecycle status of FWSD to |
The confirmation status is used primarily to track the integration of SAP TM with SAP ERP, and indicates the result of the last integration interaction between SAP TM and SAP ERP. Important confirmation statuses are listed in the following table:
Confirmation Status | Description |
|---|---|
| The FWSD is not yet transferred to SAP ERP for invoicing. |
| SAP ERP successfully created the invoice. |
| SAP ERP failed to create the invoice. You must manually check why the invoice was not created. |
| SAP ERP successfully canceled the invoice. |
| SAP ERP failed to cancel the invoice. |
| You transferred the FWSD to SAP ERP and the status in SAP ERP is not yet known. |
Integration
The FWSD is integrated with a number of other components in SAP TM, for example:
You can start the generation of an FWSD from an FWO.
Charge Management and Service Product Catalogs
The system calculates the transportation charges based on the setup of master data objects in the Charge Management and Service Product Catalogs component, for example calculation sheets, rate tables, and scales.
The system can use the forwarding agreement to include master data objects for transportation charges in the order process, such as calculation sheets or rate tables.