In SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management, when a specific agreement determination condition is not used, the system falls back to a standard logic based on the data in the business document (in this case, the freight order). The freight agreement is a purchasing contract for transportation services. Therefore, the system primarily uses the Purchasing Organization, which represents the buying entity within the company, and the Carrier (Transportation Service Provider), who is the contractual partner and seller of the service, to uniquely identify the relevant freight agreement for charge calculation.

B. Ordering party: This party (e.g., a sales organization) initiates the transport requirement, but the freight agreement is a procurement document managed by the purchasing organization.

D. Executing carrier: The freight agreement is held with the contractual carrier. The executing carrier might be a subcontractor and not the direct party to the agreement being determined.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA 2023

"Agreement Determination": The official documentation states

"The system uses the following data from the business document to search for freight agreements: Purchasing organization

Carrier

Service level

Transportation mode

Shipping type...". This directly confirms that the Purchasing Organization and Carrier are key determination criteria. (Path: SAP S/4HANA -> Transportation Management (TM) -> Freight Agreement Management -> Agreement Determination).

2. SAP Learning

Course S4TM1 "SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management Overview"

Unit 5

Lesson 2: "Freight Agreement Management": This courseware explains that a Freight Agreement is a contract between a shipper/LSP (represented by a purchasing organization) and a carrier. This foundational concept establishes the relationship between these two entities as central to the agreement.

3. SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA 2023

"Freight Agreement": The documentation defines a freight agreement as a "grouping of calculation sheets

rate tables

and scales that you have negotiated with a carrier." This definition reinforces that the agreement is fundamentally linked to the specific carrier. (Path: SAP S/4HANA -> Transportation Management (TM) -> Freight Agreement Management -> Freight Agreement).