Blocking Information of Freight Units and Capacity Documents
You can set planning, execution, and invoicing blocks for business documents, such as freight units, freight documents, and transportation units. The blocks can be set as follows:
Automatically, for example if a dangerous goods check indicates an error
Automatically, by being copied from a predecessor document
Manually
Prerequisites
You have defined block reasons in Customizing. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management
under 
Basic Functions
General Settings
Define Block Reason Codes
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You have defined a block profile in Customizing. Also, you have assigned this profile in Customizing to the document types (freight unit type, freight order type, freight booking type, and transportation unit type). For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management
under Freight Order Management
Define Block Profile
.
Features
You can display all the automatic blocks on the Block Information
tab page. Furthermore, you can set or remove blocks manually:
Manual setting of blocks
When you set blocks manually, you can select a block reason from the values defined in Customizing. You can also set, for example, multiple planning or execution blocks and choose different block reasons. All the block reasons are displayed both in the aggregated view of the blocks next to the block status and in the successor documents.
You can set manual blocks for an entire business document or only for individual document items or stages.
Automatic setting of blocks
If blocks were set in a predecessor document (this means in a forwarding order or freight unit), blocks are set by the system. Automatic blocks can also be created after checking dangerous goods and approvals as well as during integration with SAP Extended Warehouse Management, for example. The following detailed information is displayed on the
Block Information
tab page:The predecessor document that caused the block
You can use a link to navigate to this document.
The type and reason for the block
The date on which the block was created and the person responsible
When you view the block details, the system displays more information about a block, such as why a forwarding order is still incomplete for planning or the item for which there is a discrepancy.
Removal of blocks
When you remove a block, you can enter a comment. The system also logs and displays who removed the block and when. Note that you require the authorization to remove blocks.
If you have created a block profile in Customizing and you have defined tolerances for time conflicts, the system ignores these conflicts when it sets planning blocks. The system can also ignore consecutive time conflicts that arise after an initial time conflict has been ignored. For example, a system update can have led to a worsening of the conflict. Time conflicts can arise if a requested pick-up or delivery date/time is exceeded.
For freight orders and freight bookings, only the execution block is copied from the freight unit. The invoicing block is set automatically or manually. It cannot be copied from a predecessor document.