A consignment order in SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management (TM) is a business document that represents a logical group of items to be transported from a shipper to a consignee. It is specifically designed for use in shipper-consignee collaboration scenarios, serving as a primary basis for communication and information exchange between these two parties. This document consolidates transportation demands and facilitates planning and visibility for the consignee before the actual physical transport, which is managed by freight orders.

A. Freight order: This is an execution document sent to a carrier to perform the physical transportation of goods. It is not primarily a logical grouping for shipper-consignee communication.

B. Service order: This document is used to procure transportation services from a carrier, typically in a subcontracting scenario. It is a purchasing document, not a communication tool for consignees.

D. Sales order: A sales order is a source document from the Sales and Distribution (SD) module that creates a transportation requirement; it is not the TM document that represents the logical grouping itself.

1. SAP S/4HANA Help Portal

"Consignment Order": "A consignment order is a business document that you can use in shipper-consignee collaboration to represent a group of items to be transported from a shipper to a consignee." (SAP S/4HANA 2023

Transportation Management (TM) -> Order Management -> Consignment Order).

2. SAP S/4HANA Help Portal

"Freight Order": "A business document that is the basis for transporting goods. A freight order can contain one or more transportation stages. You send the freight order to a carrier and you can use it as the basis for charge calculation and settlement." (SAP S/4HANA 2023

Transportation Management (TM) -> Freight Order Management -> Freight Order).

3. SAP S/4HANA Help Portal

"Service Order for Carrier": "In SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)

you can create a service order to purchase transportation services from a carrier." (SAP S/4HANA 2023

Transportation Management (TM) -> Freight Order Management -> Subcontracting -> Service Order for Carrier).