SAP Transportation Management

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SAP Transportation Management

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Improve transportation visibility with SAP TM

In today’s digital and volatile economies, managing the complexity of transportation requires a robust transportation management system that provides functional support for your individual transportation operations and network.

The SAP Transportation Management (TM) solution enables you to manage all domestic and international inbound and outbound cargo operations in the same environment, providing traceability of fees and visibility into vehicles, orders, shipments, items and logistics processes.

With SAP’s transportation management solution, businesses can manage supply chain processes end-to-end and fully integrated to gain better control over their local and global transportation activities, and reduce costs by optimizing planning, visibility and real-time integration.

LomanSYS Transportation Truck

Provide users with real-time tracking and order information

With integrated transportation management system, you can gain visibility and control to optimize logistics and improve services.

Helping you make the supply chain more flexible and resilient, SAP TM allows you to significantly reduce shipping complexity by integrating fleet and logistics management into your network.

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On-premise and cloud deployment

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Transportation and demand planning

Interactive freight tendering

Interactive freight tendering

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Collaboration
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Manage freight activities and improve visibility with SAP TM

SAP Transportation Management helps you manage activities related to physical movement of goods, including order management, transportation planning, freight execution and monitoring, freight costing and settlement, analytics and reporting.

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Strategic Freight
Management

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Order
Management

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Transportation
Planning

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Transportation
Execution

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Freight Costing &
Settlement portal

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Analytics &
Reporting

Build more resilient and transparent supply chains

SAP TM ensures the necessary steps are taken to create more resilient supply chains and improve real-time visibility into supply and demand.

Strategic Capacity Procurement & Network Planning

  • Strategic Freight Procurement
  • Strategic Freight Sales
  • Contract Negotiation
  • Ocean and Air Schedule and Capacity Management
  • Carrier Booking
  • Descartes Integration

Order Management

  • Order Life-Cycle Management and Visibility
  • Integration with ERP Transportation Demand
  • Integration with ERP Scheduling Agreements
  • Sales and StockTransfer Order Scheduling
  • Order Management for Rail
  • EmptyContainer/Railcar Provisioning and Return
  • Integration with Handling Unit
  • SOLAS
  • Air Cargo Security

Freight Planning and Tendering

  • Carrier Selection and Tendering
  • Route Planning and Optimization
  • Map-based Planning
  • Planning with Gantt Chart
  • VSR Optimizer and Scheduling
  • Package / Pallet Building
  • Transportation Load Planning
  • Load Consolidation
  • Planning for Rail, Container, Parcels
  • Manual trailer and multilevel equipment planning
  • Backhaul Planning
  • Fleet Management
  • Driver Management

Freight Execution and Monitoring

  • Comprehensive Freight Document Management
  • Shipment Tracking and Communication
  • Integrated Warehouse Execution
  • Transit Warehouse Scenario
  • Global Trade Compliance
  • Customs Declaration and Security filings
  • Yard Logistics Integration

Freight Charges and Settlement

  • Freight Contract Management
  • Freight Agreement Rate Changes
  • Freight Charge Calculation (for all modes including parcel)
  • Cost Distribution
  • Cost Transparency and Visibility (Profitability)
  • Fuel Surcharge Calculation
  • Event Based Charges
  • Freight Settlement
  • Multiple Carrier Invoice
  • Invoice Dispute Management
  • Group Company Logistics

Benefits of SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain for Transportation Management

One single / holistic transportation platform

Automated transportation processes

End-to-end transportation visibility

Reliable SAP technology
(standard settings, global SLAs, strong community etc.)

Combination of inbound, outbound & intercompany freight

Scalability of business scope (start small, go large)

Global solution
(multiple languages, currencies etc.)

Comprehensive integration into core business processes
(O2C, P2P etc.)

Discover the value of
SAP TM

Increased business productivity

  • More automated processes
  • Electronic collaboration
  • Reduced redundancies

End-to-end transportation visibility and improved customer service

  • Electronic track & trace capabilities and cross-system document flow

5-15% in freight spend

  • Freight consolidation
  • Freight rate negotiation with simulation and what-if analysis
  • Higher asset utilization
  • Reduction in expedites and overheads

Improvements in cash flow

  • Accurate costing and settlement (reduced overcharges and unplanned accessorial overcharges, invoice inaccuracy, etc.)
  • Automatic accrual generation with auditing / tracking of charges
  • Improved cost allocation
  • Self-billing
  • Integrating freight costing with billing and financials

Standardized transportation processes and operations

  • Common transportation platform
  • Centralized rate and data management

Quicker business decisions, faster business insights and reduced complexity in data

  • Real-time analytics

Conquer today’s transportation challenges

SAP Transportation Management allows you to balance freight costs and service levels while providing clear visibility and real-time decision making. It enables shippers to standardize their transportation operations and integrates with the intelligent ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution SAP S/4HANA.

Why?

Objectives

  • Deliver goods to customers on time, in full and at the right price
  • Provide end-to-end transportation visibility and improved service levels
  • React to disruptions and identify bottlenecks faster

How?

Solution

  • Order lifecycle management and order-based planning
  • Manual, automated and 3D load planning, space optimization
  • Freight execution monitoring, event tracking, document management, integration with warehousing and global trade
  • Accurate freight costing and reporting
  • Embedded analytics

What?

Benefits

  • Faster decision making with real-time data
  • Higher productivity with automated processes, electronic collaboration and less redundancy
  • Better cash flow through accurate costing and settlement
  • Lower spending through improved planning

SAP Event Management

Gain logistics tracking capability

You can plan and execute all your distributed processes within your logistics operations such as procurement, production, order fulfillment and asset management.

SAP Extended Warehouse Management

Optimize warehouse operations

You can automate and accelerate warehouse processes to create more resilient supply chains and improve real-time visibility of supply and demand.

SAP Business Network for Logistics

Improve supply chain resilience

You can improve freight collaboration, goods tracking, materials traceability and supply chain resilience.

SAP Yard Logistics

Make your logistics future-fit

You can automate your processes, economically create and manage yard activities, and use mobile capabilities for greater efficiency.

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