Transportation Booking
A Transportation Booking represents the transport arranged for a leg of a forwarding movement, such as moving containers to or from a terminal. Creating it from shipment or consolidation sections reuses the relevant route, cargo and equipment information instead of entering a separate transport file from scratch.
The creation wizard supports one booking for the equipment selection, separate bookings per equipment, or a booking per document. Where the carrier and order setup require it, the process can also create a related TMS order.
Create a Transportation Booking
- Open the shipment or consolidation and select the relevant section.
- Choose Create Transportation Booking to open the wizard.
- Select the required creation option. Use Select Equipment? when only specific equipment details should be included, then select those details in the next step.
- Select the applicable order-type mapping when the wizard offers a selection.
- Confirm creation and review the resulting booking, including its route, carrier, equipment and related documents.
Choose the grouping that matches how transport is ordered. A booking covering several containers is different from separate bookings for each container.
Configuration hints
- Maintain FMS Order Type Mapping for the source document/order type, carriage type and mode of transport. Define the destination document/order type, mode of transport and section template.
- Configure the destination header/section status templates and status codes in the mapping where required.
- For related TMS order creation, enable Create Tms Order on the applicable carrier and configure the TMS order setup used by your implementation. A Transportation Booking does not automatically imply that a TMS order exists.
- Test the required creation options and review existing document relations before creating another booking for the same transport leg.
Tip
Check equipment selection before confirming a repeat booking. Existing bookings and processed equipment can affect which details should be included.