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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>
			<Level2>introduction</Level2>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>Freight planning</Level1>
			<Level2>introduction</Level2>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>Planning</Level1>
			<Level2>introduction</Level2>
		</Keyword>
	</Header>
	<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, from your supplier to your warehouse, or from a supplier directly to your customer, 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>
	</AimSection>
	<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Freight orders</SectionTitle>
		<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>
	</GeneralSection>
	<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Planning methods and planning options</SectionTitle>
		<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 method or options provide the best result.</Paragraph>
	</GeneralSection>
	<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Setup</SectionTitle>
		<ProcedureList><ListIntro>To optimize planning results, set up your master data along the following lines:</ListIntro>
			<ListItem>Make sure carriers are entered for freight orders during freight order creation (both manually and automatically).</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Define appropriate master data, such as addresses, transport means groups, route plans, and so on.</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 <Link href="/baanerp/fm/rpg/fmrpg1200m000" role="session">Generate Rough Planning (fmrpg1200m000)</Link> session. Refer to the session help for details.</Paragraph>
	</GeneralSection>
	<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>
		<Paragraph>For more information, refer to <Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000088" role="manual">To create load plans using the Graphical Plan Board (fmlbd0215m000)</Link>
		</Paragraph>
	</GeneralSection>
	<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Hand over the load plan to Warehouse Management</SectionTitle>
		<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.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>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>, you must make the load plan actual. The load plan then obtains the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/domains/foc.lnst#actl" role="enum">Actual</GUIRef> status.</Paragraph>
		<Important><SectionTitle>Important!</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>In direct delivery scenarios, however, warehouses and <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh" role="package">Warehouse Management</GUIRef> are not involved. For further information, see <Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000098" role="manual">To use Freight Management for direct deliveries</Link>.</Paragraph>
		</Important>
	</GeneralSection>
	<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, 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, 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>.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>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>
	</GeneralSection>
	<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Load plan, load, and shipment statuses</SectionTitle>
		<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>
		<Note><SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>For direct deliveries, warehouses and <GUIRef href="/baanerp/wh" role="package">Warehouse Management</GUIRef> are not involved. Freight orders based on direct delivery sales orders and purchase orders are only updated from <GUIRef href="/baanerp/td" role="package">Order Management</GUIRef>. For direct deliveries, the full freight planning functionality is available. For further information, see <Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000098" role="manual">To use Freight Management for direct deliveries</Link>.</Paragraph>
		</Note>
	</GeneralSection>
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