To create freight ordersAfter the shipping office receives a sales order, purchase order, or other order that requires transportation, it creates a freight order that lists the goods on this order. The shipping office then uses the freight order to plan the transportation of the goods. In fact, transport planning is based on the freight order. Usually, a shipping office receives numerous originating orders to be processed at the same time. Some of the items on the originating order can be put on freight orders that already exist. This is the case if the origin addresses, the destination addresses, the dates, and the times correspond. In LN, freight orders are created automatically or batch-wise from the following types of orders:
Depending on particular system settings (see Automatic creation of freight orders and Batch-wise creation of freight orders), a freight order is generated in either of the following situations:
You can also manually create freight orders. Note
Automatic creation of freight orders You can set automatic creation of freight orders in the following locations:
Batch-wise creation of freight orders If LN is not set to automatic creation of freight orders, you can generate freight orders by batch in the following sessions:
Note To enable batch-wise creation of freight orders, the Generate Freight Orders from Purchase check box must be selected in the originating order lines. In addition, generating freight orders must be specified as a non-automatic activity in the Sales Order Type - Activities (tdsls0560m000) session for the relevant sales order types, and in the Purchase Order Type - Activities (tdpur0560m000) session for the relevant purchase order types. In addition, if a record for a given item and business partner combination is created in the Items - Purchase Business Partner (tdipu0110m000) session, to enable batch-wise creation of freight orders for this combination, the Generate Freight Orders from Purchase check box must be selected in the Items - Purchase Business Partner (tdipu0110m000) session. Likewise, if a record for a given item and business partner combination is created in the Items - Sales Business Partner (tdisa0510m000) session, to enable batch-wise creation of freight orders for this combination, the Generate Freight Order from Sales check box must be selected in the Items - Sales Business Partner (tdisa0510m000) session. For information on how to generate freight orders from batches of warehousing orders, see Generate freight orders for warehousing orders and Generating freight orders for direct delivery sales orders. Batch-wise and automatically created freight orders In LN, all orders include items, delivery dates and times, ship-from or ship-to names and addresses, and so on. Essentially, a freight order that is generated in a batch or created automatically, is a copy of the relevant information (such as items, delivery dates/times, and addresses) from the originating order and some specific freight related data added by Freight. In the Freight master data, users can define specific freight related data for items and addresses. If an originating order has items and/or addresses, for example, for which freight related data is defined, the freight related data is added to the freight order that is generated from the originating order. Example A user can allocate a property such as transport type: cold storage to the item deep frozen fish chunk. Whenever a freight order is generated from an originating order for deep frozen fish chunks, the transport type cold storage is added to the item on the freight order line. However, the order lines of the originating order can be added to different freight orders. For example, if freight order FO1 is created from sales order 1, most of the order lines of sales order 1 go into FO1. However, certain order lines from sales order 1 can be added to the existing freight orders FO2 and FO3. This can happen if the origins, destinations, times, and dates overlap. Manually created freight orders In Freight you can manually create freight orders in the Freight Orders (fmfoc2100m000) session. If you manually create a freight order, you can enter the relevant order heading and order line data yourself. For example:
Note If you are primarily interested in planning data such as loading and unloading dates, routes and freight costs without updates on the progress of the goods through warehouse processing, you can use manually created freight orders to perform Freight load building on a stand-alone basis. Loads and shipments resulting from manually created freight orders provide you with an overview of the loading and unloading dates, routes, freight costs, and so on, without updates on their progress through warehouse processing. If you require warehouse processing updates in addition to planning and freight cost data, you must base load building on freight orders that are based on originating orders. The reason is, that to process loads and shipments, and to update Freight on the progress of load and shipment processing through the warehouse, Warehousing needs warehouse orders for the freight orders on which the loads and shipments are based, but you cannot create warehousing orders for manually created freight orders in LN. A warehouse order is generated when the originating order of a freight order is released to Warehousing. Manually created freight orders have no originating orders, and therefore, these orders cannot be released to Warehousing. Similarly, loads and shipments based on freight orders, whose originating orders are not released to Warehousing, cannot be processed in Warehousing. Single-shipment freight orders Single-shipment freight orders are generated if:
For all other instances of freight orders being generated from originating orders, this check box is greyed out and the value is taken from the Single Shipment Order check box in the Freight Order Type - Defaults (fmfmd0165m000) session. For manually created freight orders, you can select or clear the Single Order per Shipment check box if the freight order is not yet processed.
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