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		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Introducing load building</Title>
		<Keyword><Level1>load building</Level1>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>freight planning</Level1>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>planning</Level1>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>freight</Level1>
		</Keyword>
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	<AimSection><Paragraph>Load building is the core functionality of <GUIRef href="" role="manual">Freight Management</GUIRef>. The primary purpose of load building is to plan the transportation of goods from your warehouse to the customer, or from your supplier to your warehouse, in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. Alternatively, you can employ this functionality for goods movements between your warehouses, or from warehouse to production environment and vice versa.</Paragraph>
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	<GeneralSection><Paragraph>Load building is based on freight orders. To plan the transportation of a particular number of goods, you must select the freight orders and freight order lines on which these goods are listed and start up the load building engine. The result is a <Link href="/baanerp/fm/glossary/glossary#000028" role="glossary">load plan</Link> for the selected freight orders and freight order lines that consists of a number of loads and <Link href="/baanerp/fm/glossary/glossary#000018" role="glossary">shipments</Link>.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>The load building engine offers various planning options and three basic <Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000020" role="manual">Planning methods</Link>.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>You can create various load plans from the same freight orders, each time using a different planning method and/or different planning options, to see which methods or options provide the best result.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>After you create a load plan, the load plan must be carried out. This means that the goods must be collected in the warehouse and loaded onto a truck or other vehicle on the date and time specified in the load plan, or, in case of incoming goods, receipt procedures must be started up. The normal procedure to carry out a load plan is to pass on the load plan to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh" role="package">Warehouse Management</GUIRef>. To pass on a load plan to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh" role="package">Warehouse Management</GUIRef>, the load plan obtains the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/domains/foc.lnst#actl" role="enum">Actual</GUIRef> status.</Paragraph>
		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Planning data and warehouse updates</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>If you are primarily interested in planning data such as loading and unloading dates, routes, and freight costs for the goods that require transportation without updates on their progress through warehouse processing, you can use manually created freight orders to perform <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm" role="package">Freight Management</GUIRef> load building on a stand-alone basis.</Paragraph>
			<Paragraph>If you require warehouse processing updates in addition to planning and freight cost data, to create load plans, you must use freight orders that are based on <Link href="/baanerp/fm/glossary/glossary#000048" role="glossary">originating orders</Link>.</Paragraph>
			<Paragraph>The reason is, that <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh" role="package">Warehouse Management</GUIRef> needs warehousing orders to process the loads and shipments and to update <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm" role="package">Freight Management</GUIRef> on the progress of load and shipment processing, but in SSA ERP, you cannot create warehousing orders for manually created freight orders.</Paragraph>
			<Paragraph>A warehouse order is generated when the originating order of a freight order is released to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh" role="package">Warehouse Management</GUIRef>. Manually created freight orders have no originating orders, and therefore, these orders cannot be released to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh" role="package">Warehouse Management</GUIRef>. Similarly, loads and shipments based on freight orders, whose originating orders are not released to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh" role="package">Warehouse Management</GUIRef>, cannot be processed in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh" role="package">Warehouse Management</GUIRef>.</Paragraph>
			<Paragraph>In <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh" role="package">Warehouse Management</GUIRef>, the progress of load plan processing is expressed in various statuses. This process-progress information is passed on from <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh" role="package">Warehouse Management</GUIRef> to <GUIRef href="" role="manual">Freight Management</GUIRef>. <GUIRef href="" role="manual">Freight Management</GUIRef>, in turn, checks this information and displays its own statuses to express the various stages of completion of loads, shipments, and freight orders. For further information, see <Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000024" role="manual">Load plan, load, and shipment statuses</Link> and <Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000015" role="manual">Freight order statuses</Link>.</Paragraph>
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		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Setup</SectionTitle>
			<ProcedureList><ListIntro>For the best planning results, take the following steps:</ListIntro>
				<ListItem>Define the master data, such as addresses, transport means groups, route plans, and so on.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Enter carriers for freight orders</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Define carriers and transport means groups with specified transport categories</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Define carriers and transport categories for standard routes and route plans</ListItem>
			</ProcedureList>
			<Paragraph>In this way, you prevent the load building engine from selecting undesirable carrier or transport means group combinations, such as transport by ship where you need trucks.</Paragraph>
		</GeneralSection>
		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Create required capacity overviews</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>Before you start load building, you can generate required loading capacity overviews for a given period of time. Required capacity overviews are based on the aggregated volumes and weights listed on freight orders existing in SSA ERP over a time span specified by the user. Required capacity overviews can help you, for example, to anticipate sudden rises in required loading capacity.</Paragraph>
			<Paragraph>To generate general capacity overviews, open the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/rpg/fmrpg1200m000" role="session">Generate Rough Planning (fmrpg1200m000)</GUIRef> session. For further information, see <Link href="/baanerp/fm/rpg/fmrpg1200m000" role="session" show="parsed" actuate="auto">INCLUDE: Generate Rough Planning (fmrpg1200m000)</Link>.</Paragraph>
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		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle><GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/lbd/fmlbd0215m000" role="session">Graphical Plan Board (fmlbd0215m000)</GUIRef></SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>In addition to the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/lbd/fmlbd0280m000" role="session">Generate Plan (fmlbd0280m000)</GUIRef> session, you can use the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/lbd/fmlbd0215m000" role="session">Graphical Plan Board (fmlbd0215m000)</GUIRef> session to create load plans. The <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/lbd/fmlbd0215m000" role="session">Graphical Plan Board (fmlbd0215m000)</GUIRef> session provides an intuitive graphical interface that you can use to create and maintain load plans. You can access the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/lbd/fmlbd0215m000" role="session">Graphical Plan Board (fmlbd0215m000)</GUIRef> session from the following locations:</Paragraph>
			<List><ListItem>The <GUIRef href="" role="menu">Specific</GUIRef> menu or the toolbar of the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/lbd/fmlbd0110m000" role="session">Plans (fmlbd0110m000)</GUIRef> session.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>The <GUIRef href="" role="menu">Specific</GUIRef> menu or the toolbar of the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/lbd/fmlbd4100m000" role="session">Loads (fmlbd4100m000)</GUIRef> session.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>The <GUIRef href="" role="menu">Specific</GUIRef> menu or the toolbar of the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/foc/fmfoc2100m000" role="session">Freight Orders (fmfoc2100m000)</GUIRef> session.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>The <GUIRef href="" role="menu">Specific</GUIRef> menu or the toolbar of the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/foc/fmfoc2101m000" role="session">Freight Order Lines (fmfoc2101m000)</GUIRef> session.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>The <GUIRef href="" role="menu">Specific</GUIRef> menu or the toolbar of the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/lbd/fmlbd0120m000" role="session">Freight Order Lines to Be Replanned (fmlbd0120m000)</GUIRef> session.</ListItem>
			</List>
		</GeneralSection>
	</GeneralSection>
	<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000050" role="manual">To create load plans</Link>
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		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/fmfmd" role="manual">Freight Management Master Data</Link>
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		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000102" role="manual">Freight Management in multi-site environments</Link>
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