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		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Freight Order Control</Title>
		<Keyword><Level1>Freight Order Control</Level1>
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	<AimSection><Paragraph><Link href="/baanerp/fm/glossary/glossary#000009" role="glossary">Freight orders</Link> provide information about goods that are to be transported, and as such provide major input to transport planning and freight order clustering. The main purpose of the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/foc" role="module">Freight Order Control</GUIRef> module is to maintain freight orders, and to keep track of freight orders in the course of their life cycle, both before and after their transportation has been planned and executed, or before and after they have been subcontracted.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>Each stage that a freight order goes through is indicated by means of a status. Changes to orders occur frequently, for example if a customer changes the quantity on his order. If transport planning has already been carried out for a freight order whose quantity is changed, the order may have to be replanned. <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm" role="package">Freight Management</GUIRef> supports changing, deleting, and replanning of freight orders.</Paragraph>
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	<GeneralSection><Paragraph></Paragraph>
		<List><ListIntro>Freight orders are typically created automatically or manually from the following types of orders:</ListIntro>
			<ListItem>Sales orders</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Planned distribution orders</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Warehouse orders</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Purchase orders</ListItem>
		</List>
		<Paragraph>Whenever an order of any of these types is created, a freight order can be generated or manually created by the user. This depends on parameter settings.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>If SSA ERP is not set to create freight orders automatically, you can create freight orders by batch in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/foc" role="module">Freight Order Control</GUIRef> module. To create freight orders by batch, you must select a range of <Link href="/baanerp/fm/glossary/glossary#000048" role="glossary">originating orders</Link> and start up the batch process. You can also manually create freight orders that are not related to an originating order.</Paragraph>
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	<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000014" role="manual">To create freight orders</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000037" role="manual">Freight order grouping</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000016" role="manual">Freight order maintenance</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000015" role="manual">Freight order statuses</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000054" role="manual">Subcontracting</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/fmlbd" role="manual">Load Building</Link>
		</RelTopic>
	</RelatedTopics>
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