Stages in FU

[S_Arora]

Hello,

Can a single Freight unit have more than one stage ? what is the business requirement to have more than one stage in a single FU. for eg. A to B to C ? Can someone explain with an example ?

Can system creates a separate Freight order for each stage of a single FU ?

rgds

sachin

[Jose_Alain]

Generally, transportation stages are planned at Freight Order or Forwarding Order level.

If a freight unit contains transportation stages because they were predefined in the business document, transshipment must take place. In this case, you cannot delete the related transportation stops at a later point in time. If transportation stages result from manual planning or VSR optimization for a freight unit, these transportation stages reflect the transshipment. In this case, you can change the related transportation stops at a later time, for example, delete or add further transportation stops. You can only delete if the transportation stage has not been planned (that is, you have to cancel the assignment to a freight order or a freight booking for the transportation stage).

[keerthana_nagaraj]

Hi Sachin,

A FU represents a transportation requirement for the goods to be transported from A -> B.

In some scenarios the goods would need to be handed over at an incoterm location C. In such a scenario, a FU can have two stages A-> C and C->B.

There could also be scenarios where in the goods have to transported over different modes of transport (warehouse to airport, airport to distribution centre, distribution centre to end user). In such a case, FU can have multiple stages as required.

And yes, different stages of the FU can be planned to different Freight Orders or Freight Bookings.

I hope this helps.

[S_Arora]

Thanx Keerhana. Just started learning SAP TM. Finding help.sap.com tough

to your answer of adjusting one FU in different FO, that would mean Breaking the FU ? Makes sense ?

[keerthana_nagaraj]

Hi Sachin,

Freight unit is just a planning document/requirement. Freight orders/Freight bookings are the actual execution documents of the goods being transported.These execution documents communicate with other systems for tendering, load planning, goods issue etc. Planning each FU to multiple execution documents based on the requirement and modes of transport is the commonly observed process in most business scenarios.

I don't understand "breaking the FU" or how it would matter in the whole process, but I hope this helps understand the flow a bit better 🙂