SAP TM – Transportation Management
Considering the growing demands on transportation logistics it is becoming increasingly important to optimize all transportation processing. We support you in realizing this with SAP TM.
SAP TM in a Nutshell
With SAP TM you can implement and optimize the planning, monitoring, and management of all transport cycles within your logistics network.
Some of the most crucial areas of action in transportation logistics are saving freight costs and calculating sustainability factors. To align your transportation processes accordingly, SAP TM supports you with features for automated transportation planning via data-driven decision-making. This includes a variety of features available to you based on the ERP as well as the WMS integration (e.g., with EWM), the latter if appliclable:
- Multimodal transport order planning
- Route planning including map integration
- Integrated freight cost calculation and invoicing
- Smart pallet and cargo area optimization through package consolidation
- Collaboration platform or integration with SAP Business Network for connecting with freight forwarders and collaboration scenarios
- Integration of customs and dangerous goods solutions
This is applicable for all levels and scenarios of dispatch – regardless of whether your company manages its own fleet, relies on outsourcing tours, or commissios courier, express, and parcel (CEP) service providers.
Implementing SAP TM Close to Standard
Thanks to our experiences in a wide range of industries, we can precisely address your individual requirements. We support you in selecting your TMS processes, creating prototypes as well as with your implementation projects and also provide support for your daily operations.
With the preconfigured system of our prismat/RAKETE for S/4HANA, you can explore the functional scope of SAP TM and align it with your individual requirements!
Our Solution for a Standard-Aligned Implementation
We combine standard processes and process configurations through customization. These processes are tailored and thoroughly tested to meet the operational and ergonomic requirements of warehouse and transportation logistics. If needed, customers can configure additional modular close-to-standard solution components.
This modular solution spectrum for SAP S/4HANA is named prismat/RAKETE for S/4HANA. It is available at any time as a cloud system for knowledge transfer and prototyping. Process discussions, testing, and training can be conducted even before the start of your implementation project.
Project Acceleration
Avoid recurring errors through documented processes and coordinated methodologies, thereby ensuring optimal project schedules.
Close to Standard and Customized
Standards facilitate collaboration, but they may not cover all requirements. Therefore, with our prismat/RAKETE solution, we have emphasized standard alignment while also being able to create individual solutions through an expandable and flexible process design.
Save Effort, Time, and Costs
Easily shorten the project duration. Thanks to our ready-to-use modular solution components, you can also save costs and time in development efforts.
Secure Your Investments
Minimize risks by getting to know the validated SAP solutions in the cloud and evaluating them in terms of your project goals before the project even starts.
Engage People
A crucial factor in change management: Give your employees the opportunity to work independently and efficiently through early and sustainable enablement.
End-to-End Perspective
Keep everything under control and create integrated processes in the best possible way through comprehensive SAP integration.
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about SAP TM
The difference between the two license options Basic TM and Advanced TM lies in their range of functions.
Basic TM is a streamlined version of SAP TM and offers basic functionalities for transportation planning and management. It is particularly suitable for companies that are looking to fundamentally optimize their transportation processes but have less complex requirements. Included are, for example, manual delivery-based transportation planning and monitoring, manual carrier selection including freight cost calculation and invoicing, and to a limited extent, hazardous goods management. Basic TM can be modularly expanded with the functional packages Transportation Planning and Transportation Charge.
Advanced TM is the full version of SAP TM, which offers the functionalities of Basic TM as well as additional advanced features. These include the optimization of transportation costs, the calculation of emissions and fuel consumption, an EWM integration based on transport units, and thus a combined processing of freight orders (inbound, outbound, transfer of goods), and many more. Advanced TM is particularly suitable for companies looking to extensively optimize and automate their transportation processes.
The integration of SAP TM and SAP EWM enables more efficient warehouse processes through an early planning of packages. Furthermore, a graphical visualization during the planning of cargo areas also increases the process reliability in the warehouse. Transparency is overall improved due to the continuous traceability of document and process flows.
There are two ways for integrating SAP TM and SAP EWM.
The first option is the integration via transport units: A mapping between the freight order in SAP TM and the transport unit in SAP EWM is used for direct access. This integration is available for the Advanced versions of SAP TM and SAP EWM.
The second option is the integration via Advanced Shipping and Receiving: A data model links the warehouse requisition and the handling unit in SAP EWM with the freight order in SAP TM. This integration is available for both the respective Basic and Advanced versions of SAP TM and SAP EWM.
SAP TM is available as SAP S/4HANA Embedded TM, which has several advantages such as simplifying IT infrastructure and reducing data replication.
SAP TM can also still to be used as a decentralized standalone solution, e.g., for companies that need to connect one SAP TM to multiple ERP instances that may not have or have only partially migrated to SAP S/4HANA.
Both SAP TM embedded in SAP S/4HANA and SAP TM as a standalone solution can be deployed on-premise or via cloud technology.
Which Solution Suits You Best?
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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.