Discrepancies and Events
You can enter the following discrepancies in your business documents in freight order management (freight order, freight booking, container unit, trailer unit, and railcar unit):
Quantity discrepancies (see Quantity Discrepancies)
Other discrepancies (see Other Discrepancies)
Unplanned events such as delays
Prerequisites
You have defined discrepancy types in Customizing for Transportation Management. For more information, see Customizing under 
Freight Order Management
Define Discrepancy Profile
.
Features
When you enter discrepancies for a transportation stage, the system automatically adjusts the actual quantities in the documents of following transportation stages. However, the cargo receipt status for these transportation stages is not displayed, because they are still not in execution. In addition, the system adjusts the related freight units and displays information about discrepancies in these freight units.
If there are unresolved discrepancies, the system automatically sets a planning and execution block for the following transportation stages. In Customizing (Define Discrepancy Profile
) as well as in your freight order, freight booking, trailer unit, or railcar unit, you can select a checkbox to prevent the block from being set:
Execution block or invoicing block for the freight order, freight booking, container unit, trailer unit, or railcar unit
Planning and execution block for freight units
Note
You can search for forwarding orders that have discrepancies.
If there are any unsolved discrepancies in a document, you cannot set the load plan status to Unload Plan Finalized
. If there is a block on an unsolved discrepancy, no goods receipt may take place, this means that you cannot set the cargo receipt status.
If you remove a freight unit with a discrepancy from a business document, in other words, if you remove the assignment, the discrepancy and the block still remain in the freight unit. However, the discrepancy and the block are removed in the business document.
In a discrepancy profile, you can assign only one discrepancy type for each discrepancy subcategory and stop category. You can use the stop category to define different behavior for inbound and outbound stops for a discrepancy subcategory of a discrepancy profile.
The following special features apply to the assignment of discrepancy profiles to document types in Customizing:
If there is no discrepancy profile assigned to the document type and there are no discrepancy profiles in the system because you have not used them so far (compatibility mode), the system creates the discrepancies according to the existing discrepancy types.
If there is no discrepancy profile assigned to the document type and there are discrepancy profiles in the system, but they do not apply to the current document type, the system does not create discrepancies for this document type.
If there is a discrepancy profile assigned to the document type, only discrepancies for the document types assigned to the discrepancy profile are created.
More Information
Handling Discrepancies (forwarding order)
Handling Discrepancies in Transit Warehousing Process (integration with SAP Extended Warehouse Management)