| # Function: Freight Order Control The goal of this main business function is to generate, monitor, and maintain freight order data. Process: Freight Order Control (code: MFM01a) This process plays a key role in Freight Management. Freight orders reflect the need for transportation and contain all the necessary data with regard to addresses, items, quantities, times, business partners, transport requirements, and so on. The user can run this process to do the following: Generate freight orders based on sales, purchase, warehousing and/or enterprise planning orders (DRP) (Batch). Manually create freight orders. Monitor and/or maintain existing freight orders Assumptions: Only if the purpose of following this procedure is to consult and/or modify existing freight orders, the option to check the corresponding freight planning information is available. Here, the user can look at the shipments and loads created by the freight management-planning engine, based on the freight orders. In Freight Management, you can also work with components instead of main items; hence the option to maintain freight order bills of material. IT support: ERP Enterprise Freight Management, Freight Order Control |