Transportation Management with SAP TM
Learn What SAP TM is, what it can do, and how to work with it!
1st Edition
Published on 28. April 2009
Book
Hardback
654 pages
978-1-59229-237-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is a practical reference that teaches consultants and project teams how to implement the new SAP Transportation Management components of SAP SCM. It teachers users what SAP SCM TM is, what it can do, and how to implement and configure it into their systems.
While demonstrating how SAP TM can be implemented and used to set up and operate the transportation management functionality, this book describes the implementation, process design, and integration of the individual components and functions of SAP TM. In addition, the book describes current topics related to transportation management, such as the integration with SAP Event Management and the integration of eSOA between industries and logistics service providers. With clear and straightforward examples, this is a must-have reference for the most recent SAP TM release.
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Persons
Author
Rüdiger Fritz studied industrial engineering and management at TH Karlsruhe, specializing in company planning and focusing on logistics. He has been working at SAP AG in Walldorf since 2001. As a developer and architect, he has had a major influence in shaping and designing SAP TM and, in particular, the Transport Cost Management 2006. From 2001 to 2005 he was involved in the development of SAP EWM (Extended Warehouse Management) and the ERP component SAP LES (Logistics Execution). As a Development Architect, he will continue to support the development of SAP TM in the future.
Till Dengel is a graduate in business administration (BA), specializing in the freight forwarding and transport area. He spent five years working in the freight forwarding area, before joining SAP in 2000 as a Senior Consultant. During his consulting activities, Till Dengel worked in the Transport and Logistics areas in the Chemistry, Pharmaceutical and Freight Forwarding sectors before taking over project management responsibility for logistics service providers in 2004. Since 2007, Till Dengel has headed up the IBU Travel & Logistics Services, which is responsible for the product definition and strategic direction of SAP in the logistics service providers, aviation, post and rail company sectors.
Dr. Jens Gottlieb is a computer scientist and has worked at SAP AG in Walldorf since 2000. He has written more than 25 scientific publications in the area of heuristic optimization techniques, has edited six books and was a key figure in the development of the Vehicle Scheduling and Routing Optimizer at SAP, which is used in APO TP/VS and in the new solution SAP TM 6.0. Jens Gottlieb was the Development Architect responsible for the optimization algorithms in the transportation area and headed development projects both in APO TP/VS and in SAP TM 6.0. Since 2008 he has been responsible for the transportation area as a Development Manager.
Dr. Bernd Lauterbach is an electrical engineer and has worked at SAP AG in Walldorf since 1995. From 2000-2007 he was the architect and project manager/development manager who headed up the development of SAP Event Management, the Auto-ID infrastructure and the new transport management solution SAP TM 6.0. Another focus of his work is in supporting many transport projects with SAP customers (logistics service providers and shippers). Since 2008, Bernd Lauterbach has worked as Senior Business Solution Architect in the IBU Travel & Logistics Services of SAP AG.
Bernd Mosbrucker studied business administration, focusing on commercial information technology. In sales and marketing and in consulting he ran SCM projects in the automotive, chemical and paper industry as Senior Consultant. As an independent developer he implemented projects in the textile, tradeshow and logistics industry for small and medium-sized businesses. Since 2000, he first worked at SAP in Product Management for the concept development, then in Development as a project manager in the Transport area. In 2005, Bernd Mosbrucker took over responsibility for the transport solution in the Solution Management for SAP AG and drafted the basic idea for SAP TM. He is responsible for the solution strategy for fulfillment solutions in Supply Chain Management.
Content
1 ... Introduction to Transportation Logistics ... 17
... 1.1 ... Logistics Service Providers ... 19
... 1.2 ... Transportation Logistics in the Shipper and Manufacturing Industries ... 24
... 1.3 ... Typical Transportation Processes ... 39
... 1.4 ... Legal Requirements and Documents in Transportation ... 49
2 ... Overview of SAP TM 6.0 ... 65
... 2.1 ... History of Transportation Management Software
at SAP ... 65
... 2.2 ... Initiative for the Development of the New SAP Transportation Management Solution ... 70
... 2.3 ... Components of the New SAP Transportation Solution ... 72
... 2.4 ... Interaction of Components ... 77
... 2.5 ... New User Interface ... 88
... 2.6 ... Possible System Landscapes with SAP TM ... 94
3 ... Organizational Structures and
General Master Data ... 99
... 3.1 ... Basic Settings ... 99
... 3.2 ... Organizational Units of a Transportation Service Provider ... 99
... 3.3 ... Product Master Data ... 104
... 3.4 ... Business Partners ... 109
... 3.5 ... Internal Business Partners in a Distributed Logistics Organization ... 112
... 3.6 ... Transfer of Master Data between SAP ERP
and SAP TM (Core Interface, CIF) ... 113
4 ... Logistical Master Data ... 119
... 4.1 ... Transportation Network ... 119
... 4.2 ... Resources ... 142
5 ... General Tools ... 157
... 5.1 ... Conditions ... 158
... 5.2 ... Post Processing Framework (PPF) ... 161
... 5.3 ... Incompatibilities ... 170
6 ... Order Management ... 173
... 6.1 ... Order Objects and the Order Receipt Process in SAP TM ... 173
... 6.2 ... Personal Object Work List in Order Management ... 180
... 6.3 ... Business Object Structures in the Shipment and Freight Request ... 185
... 6.4 ... Shipment Request Views ... 191
... 6.5 ... Associated Document Information ... 220
... 6.6 ... Checking and Activating the Shipment Request ... 222
... 6.7 ... Freight Units and Their Creation ... 223
... 6.8 ... Transportation Proposal ... 228
... 6.9 ... Transportation Revenue Determination ... 231
... 6.10 ... Confirmation ... 233
... 6.11 ... Printing Documents ... 234
... 6.12 ... Communication (Email, Fax, Messages ... 235
... 6.13 ... Customer Freight Invoice ... 236
... 6.14 ... Freight Request ... 237
... 6.15 ... Quotation ... 240
... 6.16 ... Shipment Template ... 240
... 6.17 ... Shipment ... 242
... 6.18 ... Number Ranges and Tracking Numbers ... 245
... 6.19 ... Customizing ... 246
... 6.20 ... Further Functions in SAP TM 7.0 ... 250
7 ... Planning and Optimization ... 253
... 7.1 ... Transportation Activities ... 254
... 7.2 ... Planning Strategies ... 258
... 7.3 ... Selection Settings ... 260
... 7.4 ... Planning Settings ... 267
... 7.5 ... Planning ... 289
... 7.6 ... Optimization Algorithm ... 309
8 ... Subcontracting ... 315
... 8.1 ... Booking Order ... 317
... 8.2 ... Shipment Order and Freight Order ... 321
... 8.3 ... Transportation Allocations ... 331
... 8.4 ... Transportation Service Provider Selection ... 338
... 8.5 ... Tendering ... 348
9 ... Calculating Transportation Charges ... 357
... 9.1 ... Calculating Transportation Charges within Subprocesses ... 358
... 9.2 ... All Master Data for the Calculation of Transportation Charges ... 411
10 ... Invoicing Transportation Charges ... 467
... 10.1 ... Creating and Processing Invoice Requests ... 468
... 10.2 ... SAP ERP Configuration ... 484
11 ... Analytics ... 495
... 11.1 ... Reports and Dashboards ... 495
... 11.2 ... Data Extraction from SAP TM ... 499
12 ... SAP Event Management ... 505
... 12.1 ... Overview and Functions ... 505
... 12.2 ... Event Handlers and Event Messages ... 516
... 12.3 ... Event Handler Settings ... 520
... 12.4 ... Event Processing ... 525
... 12.5 ... Information Output and Input Using SAP Event Management ... 530
13 ... Event Management Processes ... 539
... 13.1 ... Order Status Tracking ... 540
... 13.2 ... Shipment Tracking ... 542
... 13.3 ... Vehicle and Transport Equipment Tracking ... 544
... 13.4 ... Tour Status Tracking ... 546
... 13.5 ... Tendering Tracking ... 547
... 13.6 ... Enhancement of Tracking Processes ... 551
14 ... Transportation Processes ... 555
... 14.1 ... Handling of a Full Container in
Sea Freight (FCL ... 556
... 14.2 ... General Cargo Transportation (LTL) via Distribution Centers ... 587
... 14.3 ... Template Booking for Sea Freight ... 601
... 14.4 ... Multimodal Routing of a Shipment ... 607
... 14.5 ... Demurrage and Detention ... 610
15 ... Technological Foundations ... 613
... 15.1 ... Business Object Modeling ... 613
... 15.2 ... Enterprise Services in SAP TM ... 620
... 15.3 ... BAdIs in SAP TM ... 635
16 ... Conclusion ... 637
A ... Bibliography ... 639
B ... The Authors ... 641