SAP TM helps organizations manage the entire transportation process, including planning and optimizing, forecasting, freight tendering, and charge management—all in real time.
Strategic Freight Management
The procurement and sale of freight is critical in supply chain management. SAP TM enables you to automate the quote-to-contract process, forecast future transportation needs, and negotiate freight rates with customers, trucking companies, and logistics service providers.
Order Management
Orders and purchase orders from SAP S/4HANA and other third-party enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are integrated by AP TM. It provides real-time order-to-cash and procure-to-pay processes to assist in managing changes in transportation demand.
Transportation Planning & Cost Reduction
You can use manual and automated planning, as well as optimization tools, to determine the best resources and routes. You can reduce freight costs by combining inbound and outbound transports and planning processes across locations.
Realtime Reporting & Analytics
You’ll be able to create reports and analyse data using real-time data to make better business decisions.
Advanced Shipping (Basic vs. Advanced Comparison)
Basic
- Main parts of the transportation network (except e.g Trade lane, allocations, business shares.
- Freight Agreements
- Charge management (except e.g. air specific charges, event based charges, consolidated charge calculation)
- Separated inbound / Outbound freight order / Booking managment based on deliveries
- Basic transportation planning (POWLs / manual freight unit selection
- Transportation execution without event management
- Freight settlement management
- Basic agency billing
- Direct tendering for service agents (Subcontracting)
- Dangerous goods management (Except TM Specific enhancements
- TM Output management
Advanced
- Strategic freight management
- Service product catalog (future topic)
- Service order management (future topic)
- Forwarding management /Settlement (future topic)
- Inbound and outbound freight management based on sales order, purchase orders, deliveries, stock transfer orders and returns
- Planning
- Driver management
- Advanced charge calculation
- Carrier / Service billing
- Group logistics management (future topic)
- Harmonized transportation scheduling (future topic)
- SAP EWM integration (via services)
- TM analytics