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In your freight order and freight booking, you can define service items to order additional services along with transportation services. Examples of additional services are fumigation of a container or insurance.

Prerequisites

  • You have defined internal service types in Customizing. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under Start of the navigation path Basic Functions Next navigation step General Settings Next navigation step Define Service Types End of the navigation path.

  • You have assigned these internal service types to your carrier’s service types. You assign internal service types to your business partner in SAP NetWeaver Business Client by choosing Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step General Next navigation step Define Business Partner End of the navigation path (Carrier role, Vendor Data tab page).

  • You have assigned your internal service types to an item type of category Service in Customizing. For more information, see Customizing for Transportation Management under Start of the navigation path Freight Order Management Next navigation step Define Item Types for Freight Order Management End of the navigation path.

  • In your freight agreement, you have defined freight agreement items and the corresponding services. If you want to make sure that a service must not be deleted, select the Mandatory Service checkbox for your agreement item. If you want the system to automatically display the services in your freight order or freight booking when you enter the freight agreement item, select the Flow Service checkbox for your freight agreement item. For more information about freight agreements, see Agreement Maintenance.

Features

You can define service items as subitems of a cargo item or as separate items (main items). You can enter the requested quantity for a service item.

You have the option to enter a carrier in your freight order or freight booking. If you do so, the input help contains only those internal service types that you have assigned to the carrier. If you do not enter a carrier, the system offers you all internal service types.

If in addition you enter a freight agreement, freight agreement version, and freight agreement item in your freight order or freight booking (Subcontracting tab page), the corresponding services are copied to the freight order or freight booking or offered in the input help. The freight agreement and freight agreement version are also used for charge calculation.

Note Note

  • Service items that you have defined in a related forwarding order are not taken into account or copied to the corresponding freight order or freight booking.

  • If you enter a freight agreement that is invalid for the freight order or freight booking, the system will only detect this during charge calculation.

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You can distribute costs for a service item that references a logistics item in a freight document. You can only distribute costs in a freight document where you have a logistics item that comes from an ERP item or a forwarding order. For more information, see Cost Distribution Management.

Activities

If you have selected the Generic Item View hierarchy type, service items are displayed on the Items tab page of the freight order or freight booking. If you want to display service items only, select the Service Items Only hierarchy type in the Change Hierarchy field. For more information, see Use of Hierarchical Views in FOM.