| # Freight Invoicing You can use Freight Invoicing to release invoicing data for transport costs to Invoicing. The invoicing data is used by Invoicing to create invoices for transport costs to internal and external business partners. Some business partners are invoiced for estimated freight costs, others are invoiced for actual freight costs listed on the carrier invoice, and sometimes invoicing is based on other agreements. Invoicing data is ready for release to Invoicing when the freight costs are calculated. The invoicing process In Freight Invoicing, you can generate invoices for the freight on the goods. Organizations usually subcontract the transportation of these goods to a carrier for the goods they sell to their customers and for the goods they buy from their supplier. To compensate the cost, they can send an invoice to customer and supplier. Invoicing methods The invoicing methods are used to determine the amount invoiced to business partner for freight charges. Internal and external invoicing In Freight Invoicing, invoices can be created for both internal and external business partners. External business partners are the customers or suppliers for whom the transportation charges are applicable. Internal business partners are departments in larger organizations that can be invoiced internally. The shipping offices arrange transportation on behalf of internal business partners such as: sales office purchase office service department warehouse Calculation of estimated freight costs For loads and shipments, Freight calculates the estimated freight costs of loads and shipments during load building. For freight order clusters, Freight calculates the estimated freight costs during freight order clustering. The Freight calculation engine is also used to calculate estimated freight costs for individual order lines of the following types: Sales order lines Sales quotation lines Freight order lines |