SAP TM glossary: F
77 terms in plain words, with the official German SAP term. Key terms link to their own page.
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FCL freight bookings
FCL DE FCL-Frachtbuchung Freight orderOcean freight bookings for full container loads, created either from an FCL forwarding order (shipping type FCL) or to consolidate LCL forwarding orders into containers.
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Field configuration for the transportation cockpit
DE Feldkonfiguration für das Transport-Cockpit Master data and cross-processPredefining which fields appear in the lists and hierarchies of the Transportation Cockpit app, their sequence, labels and tooltips, based on SAP-delivered maximum UI structures.
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Fiori launchpad
FLP Master data and cross-processEntry point from which users start TM apps.
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Fixing
Freight orderMarking a business document such as a freight order as fixed so that its existing planning results are protected from change.
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Flat view
DE Flache Sicht Charges and settlementThe flat view shows an entire forwarding agreement quotation, or one of its items, on a single screen so that a carrier or logistics service provider can decide on rates using the logistical information.
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Flexibility in freight charge changes
DE Flexibilität bei Frachtkostenänderungen Charges and settlementAfter accruals have been posted for a freight document, you can still add or update charge amounts directly in the freight document and transfer the changes to Materials Management (MM).
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Flexible creation of forwarding settlements
DE Flexible Erstellung von Speditionsabrechnungen Charges and settlementThis function lets you create several forwarding settlement documents for one forwarding order, each covering a different group of charges that you want to settle together.
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Follow-Up processes
DE Folgeprozesse Execution and trackingFollow-up processes are actions that the system triggers when an event is reported, depending on settings.
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Forwarding agreement
FWA Charges and settlementA forwarding agreement is the sales-side agreement used to calculate charges for customers, for example in forwarding orders.
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Forwarding agreement maintenance
DE Speditionsvereinbarungspflege Charges and settlementForwarding agreement maintenance covers the features specific to creating and maintaining forwarding agreements, on top of general agreement maintenance.
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Forwarding agreement quotation
FWAQ DE Speditionsvereinbarungsangebot Charges and settlementA forwarding agreement quotation (FWAQ) is a business document that a carrier or logistics service provider sends to a shipper or another LSP to bid for future transportation services in a trade lane over a defined period.
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Forwarding agreement quotation assignment
DE Zuordnung für ein Speditionsvereinbarungsangebot Charges and settlementA forwarding agreement quotation (FWAQ) assignment is a business document that an analyst of a carrier or LSP uses to propose rates for transportation services.
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Forwarding house
Master data and cross-processAn organisational unit in TM organisational management that represents a forwarding house.
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Forwarding instructions
Freight orderGeneral shipping instruction document printed from a freight order using a default SAP template.
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Forwarding order
FWO DE Speditionsauftrag Order and demandAn order from an ordering party to a carrier or logistics service provider to transport goods from a shipper to a consignee under agreed conditions.
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Forwarding order management
TM-FWM DE Speditionsauftragsmanagement Order and demandThe TM component for creating, editing and confirming forwarding orders from ordering parties, including route specification and charge calculation.
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Forwarding order management preparation
DE Vorbereitung des Speditionsauftragsmanagements Order and demandA background processing function that creates freight units and determines the route for forwarding orders instead of doing this manually in the worklist apps.
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Forwarding order type
FWO type Order and demandThe Customizing type of a forwarding order, chosen on the initial screen when creating one.
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Forwarding quotation
FWQ DE Speditionsangebot Order and demandA quotation from a carrier or logistics service provider to an ordering party with price and other conditions for a transport.
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Forwarding settlement
DE Speditionsabrechnung Charges and settlementForwarding settlement is the TM component for billing ordering parties: you create a forwarding settlement document (FWSD) and send it to Sales and Distribution (SD), which creates the invoice or credit memo and posts to financials.
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Forwarding settlement document
FWSD DE Speditionsabrechnungsbeleg Charges and settlementA forwarding settlement document (FWSD) is posted to Sales and Distribution (SD) to request an invoice to a customer.
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Forwarding settlement document type
Charges and settlementThe forwarding settlement document type is defined in Customizing for Transportation Management under Settlement > Forwarding Settlement > Define Forwarding Settlement Document Types and controls forwarding settlement documents created from forwarding orders.
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Freight agreement allocation
Carrier and tenderingA freight agreement allocation, specifically an air freight agreement allocation, is a transportation allocation type that stores carriers' allocations acting as constraints for air freight agreements.
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Freight agreement maintenance
DE Frachtvereinbarungspflege Charges and settlementFreight agreement maintenance covers the features specific to creating and maintaining freight agreements with carriers, on top of general agreement maintenance.
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Freight agreement request for quotation
RFQ Carrier and tenderingA request sent to carriers in strategic freight procurement asking for rates for future transport requirements.
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Freight agreement RFQ master
DE Master-Frachtvereinbarungsanfrage Carrier and tenderingA freight agreement RFQ master is a business document containing a shipper's or LSP's transportation requirements for a future period, used to select carriers.
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Freight agreement RFQ master assignment
DE Zuordnung für Master-Frachtvereinbarungsanfrage Carrier and tenderingA freight agreement RFQ master assignment is a business document that an analyst of a shipper or LSP uses to evaluate carrier rates for transportation services.
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Freight agreement type
Charges and settlementA freight agreement type is the Customizing type that controls freight agreements.
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Freight agreements
DE Frachtvereinbarungen Charges and settlementFreight agreements, together with calculation sheets, rate tables and scales, are used to manage long-term contracts with carriers.
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Freight booking
FB DE Frachtbuchung Freight orderAn order whose execution is planned by a carrier such as a shipowner, used to reserve freight space on a ship or aircraft.
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Freight booking execution monitoring
DE Ausführungsüberwachung von Frachtbuchungen Execution and trackingOverview page that gives shipper transportation managers KPIs to monitor whether freight bookings with carriers are executed on time, for the current and previous month.
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Freight booking quantity analysis
DE Analyse: Menge Frachtbuchung Freight orderOverview page with freight booking quantity KPIs for the current and previous month, for example gross weight and volume distribution of completed freight bookings per completion week.
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Freight booking type
Freight orderThe Customizing business document type that holds the most important settings for freight bookings, including the transportation mode for which the booking is used.
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Freight charges for service providers
DE Frachtkosten für Dienstleister Charges and settlementThis function calculates charges in a freight order or freight booking both for the transport by the main carrier and for additional services, such as fumigation, customs clearance or insurance, performed by other service providers.
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Freight code
Master data and cross-processA code grouped in freight code sets, which can be stored in the carrier profile.
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Freight cost
DE Transportkosten Charges and settlementFreight cost is what is incurred for transport services from carriers and is calculated and confirmed in freight documents.
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Freight cost confirmation and posting
DE Frachtkostenbestätigung und -buchung Charges and settlementFreight cost confirmation is the step that triggers posting a freight document's costs to financials.
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Freight document
Freight orderA collective term SAP Help uses for documents of freight order management such as freight orders and freight bookings.
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Freight document overview
DE Frachtbelegsübersicht Freight orderA location-based view of resources and requirements, showing all stops of a freight unit in sequence, the activities at each stop (such as loading, unloading, coupling) and their times.
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Freight forwarder
Carrier and tenderingA company that organises transportation on behalf of its customers and is often not itself the carrier that moves the goods.
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Freight order
FO DE Frachtauftrag Freight orderAn order whose execution is planned by a carrier or by the shipper, used mainly for road and rail transport.
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Freight order building rule
DE Frachtauftragsbildungsregel Freight orderA rule in the planning profile's optimiser settings that controls how VSR optimisation splits the activities on one resource into several freight orders.
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Freight order confirmation
DE Frachtauftragsbestätigung Carrier and tenderingA carrier collaboration function in which carriers or service providers use the Confirm Freight Orders app to view and respond to freight orders a shipper has sent them.
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Freight order execution
DE Frachtauftragsausführung Execution and trackingIn carrier collaboration, the monitoring of freight orders in execution that a shipper has sent to a carrier, using the Manage Execution of Freight Orders app.
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Freight order execution monitoring
DE Ausführungsüberwachung Frachtaufträge Execution and trackingOverview page that gives shipper transportation managers KPIs on freight order execution for the current and previous month, including critical statuses that cause blocks and carriers' on-time performance.
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Freight order management
FOM DE Frachtauftragsmanagement Freight orderThe TM component for creating and editing freight orders (road, rail), freight bookings (air, sea), trailer, railcar and container units, and package units.
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Freight order output
DE Ausgabemanagement Freight orderPrinting, faxing, e-mailing and system-to-system messages produced from freight orders through TM output management.
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Freight order quantity analysis
DE Analyse: Menge Frachtauftrag Freight orderOverview page with freight order quantity KPIs for the current and previous month: weekly weights, volumes and numbers by carrier, shipper, ship-to party, transportation mode and country or region, plus each carrier's utilisation performance.
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Freight order security status
DE Frachtauftrags-Sicherheitsstatus Freight orderA function that records whether all freight units assigned to a freight order are secure or not secure.
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Freight order type
Freight orderThe Customizing business document type that holds the most important settings for freight orders, maintained in Define Freight Order Types.
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Freight orders for customer Self-Delivery and Pick-Up
DE Frachtaufträge für die Kundenselbstanlieferung und -abholung Freight orderFreight orders that a logistics service provider creates for stages that the customer organises itself: self-delivery, for example from the customer to a container freight station, and pick-up, for example from the station to the customer.
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Freight orders with Non-Linear stages
DE Frachtaufträge mit nichtlinearen Transportabschnitten Freight orderFreight orders whose stages are not a simple chain, used for example for LTL consolidation into one container at a port of loading, or LTL deconsolidation at a port of discharge that supplies several delivery locations.
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Freight quotation
FQ DE Frachtangebot Carrier and tenderingThe carrier's response to a freight request for quotation, created when the carrier accepts the RFQ and sent to the shipper.
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Freight request for quotation
freight RFQ DE Frachtanfrage Carrier and tenderingA request sent to a specific carrier to quote the quantities of a road freight order or ocean freight booking they can carry and the dates they can meet, and optionally a price.
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Freight settlement
DE Frachtabrechnung Charges and settlementFreight settlement is the TM component that triggers the accrual of freight costs and prepares the verification of service provider invoices against freight orders, freight bookings or service orders.
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Freight Settlement - Basic TM (7IX)
7IX Charges and settlementSAP Best Practices scope item for freight settlement within Basic TM: freight settlement documents record freight costs in financial accounting as accruals and support payment to carriers or forwarders; the carrier invoice is checked against the costs calculated in the freight document, posted to material valuation inbound and to a G/L expense account outbound.
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Freight settlement dispute case
DE Frachtabrechnungs-Klärungsfall Charges and settlementA freight settlement dispute case is a separate business document that records differences in logistics item quantities or charge amounts for a freight order or carrier invoice.
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Freight settlement document
FSD DE Frachtabrechnungsbeleg Charges and settlementA freight settlement document (FSD) posts freight cost accruals and is the basis for invoice verification in Materials Management (MM) for freight orders, freight bookings and service orders.
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Freight settlement document type
Charges and settlementThe freight settlement document type is defined in Customizing under Settlement > Freight Settlement and controls how freight settlement documents behave.
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Freight settlement for additional agreement parties
DE Frachtabrechnung für zusätzliche Vereinbarungspartner Charges and settlementThis function lets you create a freight settlement document (FSD) for each additional agreement party contained in a freight order or freight booking.
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Freight settlement integration using lean services
DE Frachtabrechnungsintegration über Lean Services Charges and settlementIn this variant, freight settlement documents are posted to Materials Management (MM) using lean services.
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Freight settlement integration using MM external services management
DE Frachtabrechnungsintegration über MM-Dienstleistungsabwicklung Charges and settlementIn this variant, freight settlement documents are posted to Materials Management (MM) through external services management.
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Freight term features in forwarding orders
DE Frachtbedingungsfunktionen in Speditionsaufträgen Charges and settlementSAP Help examples showing how freight terms such as Prepaid/Prepaid, Prepaid/Collect, Collect/Prepaid and Collect/Collect assign individual charge types to prepaid or collect, and which partner settings a forwarding order needs.
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Freight terms in forwarding orders
DE Frachtbedingungen in Speditionsaufträgen Charges and settlementUse of freight terms to agree transportation charges in advance and to split them between prepaid and collect payers within a single forwarding order.
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Freight unit
FU DE Frachteinheit Order and demandA set of goods that is transported together across the entire transportation chain and the smallest unit that can be transported in SAP TM. Freight units are built from the items of forwarding orders and order- or delivery-based transportation requirements (in the Public Cloud, for example from sales orders) using freight unit building rules, and they can carry transportation constraints for planning.
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Freight unit building
FUB Order and demandThe step in which the system creates freight units from business document items such as forwarding orders, sales orders or purchase orders.
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Freight unit building rule
FUB rule DE Frachteinheitsbildungsregel Order and demandA rule that the system applies when it creates and edits freight units.
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Freight unit building strategy
FUB strategy Order and demandThe setting in the freight unit building rule that defines how items are consolidated into freight units.
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Freight unit split and mass data changes
DE Frachteinheitssplit und Massendatenänderungen Order and demandAn Advanced Shipping and Receiving inbound feature for handling external delivery note numbers that a supplier sends with a consignment order in an advanced shipping notification.
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Freight unit split and merge
Order and demandEditing functions for freight units that already exist: a freight unit can be split into several, or several can be merged into one, on the freight unit user interface.
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Freight unit stage
Order and demandOne transportation stage of a freight unit between two of its stops.
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Freight unit type
Order and demandThe Customizing business document type that holds the most important settings for freight units.
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Fuel surcharge
Charges and settlementA fuel surcharge is an additional charge that lets carriers and logistics service providers recover costs from fluctuating fuel prices, based on a fuel surcharge index.
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Fuel surcharge calculation
DE Treibstoffzuschlagsberechnung Charges and settlementFuel surcharge calculation lets carriers and logistics service providers recover additional costs from varying fuel prices by charging a fuel surcharge based on a fuel surcharge index.
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Fuel surcharge calculation: Model 1
DE Treibstoffzuschlagsberechnung: Modell 1 Charges and settlementModel 1 calculates the fuel surcharge from a fuel surcharge index based on the origin location or zones, a model widely used in North America.
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Fuel surcharge calculation: Model 2
DE Treibstoffzuschlagsberechnung: Modell 2 Charges and settlementModel 2 calculates the fuel surcharge from a base fuel surcharge value.
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Full truckload
FTL Freight orderA shipment that needs a dedicated truck.
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