Transport Equipment
Forwarding operations can include road transport before or after the main air or sea movement. The road transport team may need to record equipment associated with an address or transport job, separately from the cargo and freight containers on the forwarding shipment.
Transport Equipment is shared road transportation functionality for maintaining these equipment records and groups and associating them with addresses and transport documents. It is relevant when forwarding operations include road legs managed in the transportation module.
These records are distinct from the individual freight containers managed in FMS Equipment Details. Use Transport Equipment for the road transport associations and Equipment Planning for the forwarding container planning worksheet; the two serve different operational purposes.
Configuration hints
- Maintain Transport Equipment records with a number, description and equipment group.
- Set up the groups needed to categorize the equipment used in your operation.
- Maintain the applicable address and document equipment associations in the transportation workflow.
- Review the related road transport order or section rather than expecting the FMS Equipment Planning worksheet to create these records.
Note
This is shared road transportation functionality. For planning freight containers across forwarding shipments, use Equipment Planning.