Integration Procurement and Freight

Freight is the package in LN that handles transportation requirements. Because Procurement is sometimes responsible for the transportation of goods and must consequently collect goods from a supplier, you can generate a freight order from the purchase order. If the transportation of goods is not the supplier's, but the responsibility of Procurement, the supplier must know on what date the goods must be ready. As a result, you must consider the planned load date in the purchase order as the shipment date; when to pick up the goods from the supplier.

Integration between Freight Order Control and Procurement

During the planning and execution of a freight order, its status often changes. If Procurement is responsible for creating the freight order, the progress of the shipment and loads can be exchanged and information can be shared between Freight Order Control and Procurement.

For more information, refer to Integration Freight Order Control and Procurement.

Integration between freight Invoicing and purchase invoicing

The freight rate that you must pay to the carrier, is called freight costs. You can invoice your business partner for the freight costs, based on:

  • Freight Costs
  • Freight Costs (Update Allowed)
  • Client Rates

For more information, refer to Integration freight invoicing and purchase invoicing.

Integration between landed costs and Freight

You can link estimated or actual freight costs as landed costs to a purchase order for which a freight order is or will be generated.

For more information, refer to Landed costs – freight orders.