Freight Orders with Non-Linear Stages

This function allows you to describe, for example, the following scenarios:

A less than truck load (LTL) consolidation scenario, in which the deliveries are consolidated into one container at the transshipment location (such as the port of loading). In such an LTL consolidation scenario, you can create a freight order for disconnected transportation stages in order to perform freight settlement.
An LTL deconsolidation scenario in which the goods are deconsolidated at the transshipment location (such as the port of discharge). This transshipment location is supplies all successor stops (that is, the delivery locations) with goods.

Prerequisites

You have defined a stop sequence type for your freight order type in Customizing. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under Freight Order Management Freight Order Define Freight Order Types .
You have selected the Stage Split checkbox in your freight settlement profile in Customizing. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under Settlement Define Settlement Profile .
In Customizing, you have also selected the Calculation at Stage Level option in the Calculation Level field of your calculation profile. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under Basic Functions Charge Calculation Basic Settings Define Calculation Profiles .

Features

You can only create freight orders with non-linear stages using customer-specific functions or ERP shipments. This results in the following limitations:

You cannot create this type of freight order from a forwarding order.
You cannot create freight units from such ERP shipments.
You cannot carry out any planning activities.

You can create freight settlement documents for individual stages.

Note Note

ERP shipments can be transferred from SAP ERP to SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM), for example, for tendering. You can use the interfaces for shipment-based tendering for a scenario that, instead of consisting of tendering, consists of calculating transportation charges based on non-linear stages, as described above. For more information on these interfaces, see Shipment-Based Tendering.

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Example

For an LTL deconsolidation scenario, you have defined three locations:

Source location A
Destination location B
Destination location C

The stages look as follows:

Stage	Source location	Destination location
10	A	B
20	A	C