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   <Header>
      <Title> Freight Order Control</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e436191">
         <Level1>Functions and features</Level1>
         <Level2>Freight Order Control</Level2>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e436197">
         <Level1>Freight Order Control</Level1>
         <Level2>functions and features</Level2>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <ConceptSection>
      <Paragraph>
         <Link href="/baanerp/fm/glossary/glossary#000009" role="glossary">Freight orders</Link> provide information about goods that must
		be transported, and provide major input to transport planning and
		subcontracting. The main purpose of the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/fm/foc" role="module">Freight Order Control</GUIRef> is
		to maintain freight orders, and to keep track of freight orders in the course
		of their life cycle, both before and after their transportation has been
		planned and executed, or before and after they have been
		subcontracted.</Paragraph>
   </ConceptSection>
   <GeneralSection>
      <List>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000014" role="manual">To create freight orders</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>Freight orders
			 originate from warehouse, sales, purchase, or distribution (EP) orders,
			 possibly in different logistic companies. Freight order generation can take
			 place automatically, but can also be carried out batch-wise. You can also
			 manually create freight orders.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000037" role="manual">Freight order grouping</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>To plan the
			 transportation of goods listed on freight orders or to subcontract freight
			 orders, ERP Enterprise subdivides
			 the freight orders into groups that share the same properties such as
			 Addresses, Delivery Dates and Times and so on.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000015" role="manual">Freight order statuses</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>After a freight order
			 is created, the freight order will go through several stages until the goods
			 have reached their destinations and have been paid for. These stages include
			 both inbound and outbound goods transports. ERP Enterprise uses freight order
			 statuses to show the stage that a freight order or freight order line is going
			 through.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000062" role="manual">Cluster and cluster line status overview</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>A <Link href="/baanerp/fm/glossary/glossary#000073" role="glossary">freight order cluster</Link> is a group of freight order lines with matching properties, such
			 as shipping offices, planning groups, overlapping time windows, transport means
			 groups, and so on, that is subcontracted to a carrier. Cluster headers and
			 cluster lines have various sets of statuses. Cluster header statuses indicate
			 the progress of the cluster during the freight order cluster subcontracting
			 process. Cluster line statuses have the same status as the corresponding
			 freight order lines.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000054" role="manual">Subcontracting</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>Subcontracting is the process of offering freight orders to
			 an external carrier for transportation. You can create load plans for the
			 freight orders and offer the planned loads to a carrier, or you can offer
			 clustered freight order lines for which no load building is performed. The
			 freight orders can be clustered based on a range of common criteria, such as
			 delivery dates, service levels, transport requirements, and so on in case of
			 hazardous material that is never carried out in-house but always subcontracted
			 to a carrier.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/fm/onlinemanual/000022" role="manual">The use of route plans</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Paragraph>A <Link href="/baanerp/fm/glossary/glossary#000024" role="glossary">route plan</Link> is a network of loading and unloading addresses, one of which is a
			 pooling point. A route plan can consist of more than one <Link href="/baanerp/fm/glossary/glossary#000027" role="glossary">leg</Link>.
			 Each leg, or part of the route, can be handled differently depending on the
			 specified transport category and transport means group. Route plans are linked
			 to addresses.</Paragraph>
         </ListItem>
      </List>
   </GeneralSection>
</ManualTopic>