Transportation Management

Planning Assistance and Easy Collaboration

We enhance your transportation management with smart tools for freight and route optimization and also integrate data exchange with service providers for automated freight tenders, shipment tracking, and more.

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The Challenges of Transport Logistics

Transportation logistics is subject to many variables. The planning must not only be optimal but also be able to quickly adapt to changing circumstances. Many current discussions, whether about sustainability or resilience, focus on transport logistics and establish new requirements.

A holistic goal is flexible inventory management through strong interlocking of production, warehouse logistics, and transport logistics. Behind this complex wording are specific actions, especially in the field of digitization, which supply chain managers, dispatchers, and other stakeholders can address with the help of SAP solutions.

SAP TM for Transportation Planning

How should my items be picked, packed, and loaded? Based on which parameters do I choose a suitable carrier? What is the optimal transportation route?

SAP Transportation Management provides the tools to support you in transport planning, optimization, and billing via data-driven decision-making. Examples include automated route calculation as well as intelligent pallet and vehicle space optimization. By integrating the warehouse management system SAP EWM you can also improve the processes for shipping preparation in the warehouse.

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Collaboration Via SAP Business Network

Enhance resilience in your supply chains through rapid data exchange between you and your supply network partners!

The SAP Business Network is SAP’s collaboration platform that enables you to productively utilize collaboration scenarios, e.g. with regard to freight transport. It provides added values like time-slot booking as a self-service and monitoring the transport progress via Global Track and Trace.

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Your Quickly Achievable Benefits

SAP solutions are not exclusively used for large-scale digitization projects. With flexible cloud components and functionalities that due to existing SAP software only need to be refined for a specific application case, we design smart processes that save time and costs.

Which Solution Suits You Best?

Receive a personal consultation with our experts: We meet you at the current stage of your project and provide guidance on the next steps. We would gladly give you an initial assessment of your requirements and present you with suitable solution approaches.

An Overview of Our SAP Solutions

Discover which SAP applications are available for the different areas of supply chain management.

SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)

Thanks to its integration options and range of functions, SAP Extended Warehouse Management is the most sustainable administrative software for intralogistics. It comes without the effort and release conflicts of external development. SAP EWM is also available as an »Embedded« version in SAP S/4HANA.

SAP Material Flow System (MFS)

SAP EWM Material Flow System (MFS) allows automated warehouse and material handling technology to be integrated and managed directly at the level of programmable logic controllers (PLCs). It is also available as »Embedded« version in SAP S/4HANA with SAP EWM Advanced.

SAP Transportation Management (TM)

SAP Transportation Management offers functions ranging from route planning to cargo space planning and invoicing, tools for assisted optimization as well as integration possibilities with collaboration, yard, and warehouse processes. It is a comprehensive solution for transportation management, also available as »Embedded« version in SAP S/4HANA.

SAP Business Network for Logistics

The B2B collaboration platform SAP Business Network holds a vast variety of functions for Logistics Collaboration which transform the linear supply chain into a collaborative logistics network. Thanks to flexible cloud scenarios and modular integration options, you can adjust and expand these benefits to tailor them to your business.

SAP S/4HANA

With the new ERP generation SAP S/4HANA and its simplified data model in combination with the SAP HANA in-memory database, SAP has succeeded in creating an incredibly high-performance mainstay for future-proof business processes – transparent, in real-time, and complemented by smart cloud, UI, and analytics components.

SAP Fiori

This new UI and UX concept for SAP applications is based on modern and user-friendly design principles. With the SAP Fiori Launchpad all your applications are available at a glance thanks to clearly arranged tiles with a preview function (e.g. for key performance indicators). It also provides a role-based and personalized access.

SAP Analytics Cloud

Quick and easy access to comprehensive analyses – regardless of system landscape and data sources. With SAP Analytics Cloud, we meet your requirements for analytics and business intelligence. Benefit from real-time visualizations and dashboards as well as predictive features for your reporting and simulations.

Our Ex­per­tise for Your Pro­ject

As a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML) in Dortmund, we have been designing and implementing standard SAP solutions for logistics processes for more than 30 years.

Digital Supply Chain

Think your Digital Supply Chain end-to-end with SAP: Bring together your company’s logistics and operational requirements, system requirements, users, collaboration scenarios, and business intelligence.

Warehouse Logistics

Modern warehousing with SAP solutions: Together with you, we realize a future-oriented and flexible Warehouse Management System (WMS) in accordance with our close-to-standard implementation approach.

Warehouse Automation

Technology, software, and people in unity: By utilizing the suitable automation technology you will be able to master major challenges such as staff shortages, rapid scaling, and ergonomic optimizations.

Transport Management

Planning assistant and easy collaboration: Make the most of your transportation management with intelligent tools for freight and route optimization and integrate a data exchange with service providers, e.g. for automating freight tender bids or offering shipment tracking.

Yard Management

Reduce lead times with intelligent yard processes: We will advise you on how to achieve lean and reliable processes and provide support for you to control and manage them.

User Experience

Enjoy ergonomic interactions with your SAP system: Our mobile apps not only improve the user experience, but also add the functionalities of smartphones, etc. to your SAP transactions. Your logistics will benefit from intelligent processes based on the principles of Digital Design.

Analytics & KPIs

Generate operational Key Performance Indicators and prepare datasets for your strategic reporting: With the tools of the SAP portfolio and our know-how, you will be able to combine, visualize, and evaluate your treasure trove of data for short-term decisions as well as long-term strategic planning.

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