| # To create freight orders After 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: Sales orders Purchase orders Warehouse orders Planned distribution orders (from Enterprise Planning). 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: When an order of any of the above order types is created and saved. When a user specifies a batch of orders of any of the above order types to be processed and activates the batch process. You can also manually create freight orders. Note Freight order generation might fail due to improper master data setup. See: The use of transport means groups The use of addresses in Freight Management The use of transport types The use of route plans To define and use areas in Freight Management Loads and shipments based on freight orders, whose originating orders have no warehousing orders, cannot be processed in Warehouse Management. This means, Warehouse Management cannot confirm or close such loads and shipments. However, you can use loads and shipments without warehouse processing to obtain an overview of the possible planning data and the freight costs. Automatic creation of freight orders You can set automatic creation of freight orders in the following locations: Sales orders You can set automatic creation of freight orders from sales orders in the Sales Order Type - Activities (tdsls0560m000) session, in which you can specify that freight orders are automatically created for sales orders of a particular Sales Order Type. However, if a record for a given item and business partner combination is created in the Item - Sales Business Partner (tdisa0110s000) session, to enable automatic creation of freight orders for this combination, you must also select the Generate Freight Order from Sales check box in the Item - Sales Business Partner (tdisa0110s000) session. In addition, for individual sales order lines, the Generate Freight Order from Sales check box in the Sales Order Lines (tdsls4101m000) session and, if line details exist, in the Sales Order Delivery Lines (tdsls4101m100) session, must be selected. This check box is selected by default if automatic generation of freight orders is specified for the sales order type. Purchase orders You can set automatic creation of freight orders from purchase orders in the Purchase Order Type - Activities (tdpur0560m000) session, in which you can specify that freight orders are automatically created for purchase orders of a particular Purchase Order Type. However, if a record for a given item and business partner combination is created in the Items - Purchase Business Partner (tdipu0110m000) session, to enable automatic creation of freight orders for this combination, you must also select the Generate Freight Orders from Purchase check box in the Items - Purchase Business Partner (tdipu0110m000) session. In addition, for individual purchase order lines, the Generate Freight Orders from Purchase check box must be selected in the Purchase Order - Line (tdpur4101s000) session, and, if line details exist, in the Purchase Order Line Details (tdpur4101s200) session. This check box is selected by default if automatic generation of freight orders is specified for the purchase order type. For direct delivery purchase orders generated from a service order, the setting that triggers the generation of a freight order is defaulted from the originating service order. Maintenance sales orders Generation of freight orders from maintenance sales orders is set in the Part Lines (tsmsc1110m000) session. Warehouse orders Automatic creation of freight orders from warehouse orders is set in the Warehousing Order Type (whinh0110m000) session. However, if the Generate Freight Order from Warehousing check box is cleared on the inbound or outbound warehousing order line, no freight order is generated. Enterprise planning orders Automatic creation of freight orders from enterprise planning orders is set in the EP Parameters (cprpd0100m000) session. 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: Generate Freight Orders (fmfoc1234m000) In this session, you can select a range of sales orders, purchase orders, or other orders and generate freight orders from these orders. Generate Freight Orders (tdpur4220m000) In this session, you can select a range of purchase orders and generate freight orders from these orders. Generate Freight Orders (tdsls4222m000) In this session, you can select a range of sales orders and generate freight orders from these orders. 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 Item - Sales Business Partner (tdisa0110s000) 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 Item - Sales Business Partner (tdisa0110s000) session. For information on how to generate freight orders from batches of warehousing orders, see Generate freight orders for warehousing orders and To generate 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 Management. In the Freight Management 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 Management 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: Names Addresses Dates Times Items Order/order line grouping criteria 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 Management 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 Management on the progress of load and shipment processing through the warehouse, Warehouse Management 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 Warehouse Management. Manually created freight orders have no originating orders, and therefore, these orders cannot be released to Warehouse Management. Similarly, loads and shipments based on freight orders, whose originating orders are not released to Warehouse Management, cannot be processed in Warehouse Management. Single-shipment freight orders Single-shipment freight orders are generated if: The freight order is generated from a warehousing order with a warehousing order type for which the Single Order per Shipment check box is selected. The freight order is generated from a sales order whose order type is associated with a warehousing order type for which the Single Order per Shipment check box is selected. The freight order is generated from a sales order whose order type is not associated with a warehousing order type, but the Single Order per Shipment check box is selected for the default warehousing order type of the sales order. You can define default warehousing order types in the Default Order Types by Origin (whinh0120m000) session. 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 Shipment check box if the freight order is not yet processed. Related topics Freight Management in multisite environments |