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<Session ID="/baanerp/fm/fmd/fmfmd0180m000" xml:lang="en">
	<Header>
		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Shipping Offices (fmfmd0180m000)</Title>
	</Header>
	<HelpTopic><AimSection><Paragraph>Use this session to view and maintain <Link href="/baanerp/fm/glossary/glossary#000006" role="glossary">shipping offices</Link>.</Paragraph>
		</AimSection>
		<GeneralSection><Paragraph>To use a <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/fmd/fmfmd0180m000#fmfmd080.sofc" role="formfield">Shipping Office</GUIRef> for load building and freight order clustering purposes, you must link the shipping office to one or more warehouses, planning groups, and matrix definitions. To link a shipping office to warehouses, planning groups, matrix definitions, and login codes, you must use the options on the <GUIRef href="" role="menu">Specific</GUIRef> menu to run the relevant sessions. For efficiency reasons, link shipping offices to these entities in the following order:</Paragraph>
			<ProcedureList><ListItem><GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/fmd/fmfmd0185m000" role="session">Warehouses by Shipping Office (fmfmd0185m000)</GUIRef>. In this session, you can link warehouses to shipping offices.</ListItem>
				<ListItem><GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/foc/fmfoc1100m000" role="session">Planning Group - Shipping Office (fmfoc1100m000)</GUIRef>. In this session, you can link planning groups to shipping offices.</ListItem>
				<ListItem><GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/foc/fmfoc1115m000" role="session">Plan Matrix Definitions by Shipping Office (fmfoc1115m000)</GUIRef>. In this session, you can link a shipping office to matrix definitions and provide the matrix definitions with sequence numbers.</ListItem>
				<ListItem><GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/foc/fmfoc1105m000" role="session">Users by Shipping Office and Planning Group (fmfoc1105m000)</GUIRef>. In this session, you can maintain user authorizations for shipping offices and planning groups. If you link a user logon code to a combination of a shipping office and a planning group, the user is authorized for this combination.</ListItem>
			</ProcedureList>
			<Note><SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
				<Paragraph>You can link a shipping office to various warehouses, but you can only link a warehouse to one shipping office.</Paragraph>
				<Paragraph>Only authorized users can use planning groups and shipping offices to build shipments and loads or to cluster freight orders. Authorizations are given for combinations of shipping offices and planning groups in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/foc/fmfoc1105m000" role="session">Users by Shipping Office and Planning Group (fmfoc1105m000)</GUIRef> session.</Paragraph>
			</Note>
		</GeneralSection>
		<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
			<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000011" role="manual">The use of shipping offices and planning groups</Link>
			</RelTopic>
			<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000037" role="manual">Freight order grouping</Link>
			</RelTopic>
			<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000012" role="manual">Plan matrices and matrix definitions</Link>
			</RelTopic>
			<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000102" role="manual">Freight Management in multi-site environments</Link>
			</RelTopic>
		</RelatedTopics>
	</HelpTopic>
	<Fields><FieldHelp ID="fmfmd080.sofc"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Shipping Office</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>A <Link href="/baanerp/fm/glossary/glossary#000006" role="glossary">shipping office</Link> is a <Link href="/baanerp/tc/glossary/glossary#000005" role="glossary">department</Link> of the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/fmd/fmfmd0180m000#fmfmd080.sofc" role="field">Shipping Office</GUIRef> type. Note that the shipping office cannot be deleted or modified if freight orders are present for the shipping office in the planning company.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="fmfmd080.pcmp"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Freight Planning Company</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>The ompany in which freight orders are planned and executed by responsibility of the shipping office. In multi-site environments, a shipping office can plan freight orders created in other companies. The freight planning company cannot be changed if freight orders are present for the shipping office in the freight planning company. In addition, to add a freight planning company, the combination shipping office and freight planning company must exist as a department in SSA ERP LN Enterprise Modeling Management.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="fmfmd080.cplg"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Default Planning Group</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>The default <Link href="/baanerp/fm/glossary/glossary#000012" role="glossary">planning group</Link> of the current shipping office.</FuncDesc>
		</FieldHelp>
		<FieldHelp ID="enterprise.unit"><Header>
				<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Enterprise Unit</Title>
			</Header>
			<FuncDesc>The enterprise unit of the current shipping office.</FuncDesc>
			<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
				<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/tg/brg/tgbrg0530m000" role="session">Enterprise Units (tgbrg0530m000)</Link>
				</RelTopic>
			</RelatedTopics>
		</FieldHelp>
	</Fields>
</Session>
