Transportation Management with SAP TM
2nd Edition
Published on 25. December 2015
Book
Hardback
970 pages
978-1-4932-1224-8 (ISBN)
Description
Designed for both consultants and logistics providers, this updated bestseller provides the information you need gain a holistic view of all your logistics processes. Learn to plan and document transportation, select carriers, create forwarding orders, and. Discover industry-tested best practices and find out how you can optimize standard SAP TM functionality, to ensure that your business is on the road to success. Up to date for SAP TM 9.2 and 9.3!
End-to-End Management
Discover how SAP TM supports your transportation processes, from order management and carrier selection to charge settlement and analysis.
Implementation Best Practices
Learn how to best implement SAP TM and enhance its standard functionality using expert advice.
SAP TM 9.2 and 9.3
Find out how SAP TM has changed in functionality, with improvements in load planning, fleet management, analytics, and more.
Highlights:
Technical and solution architecture
Master data
Order management and compliance
Capacity management
Planning and optimization
Gantt chart planning
Execution and monitoring
Carrier selection and subcontracting
Charge calculation and settlement
Strategic freight management
Holistic quotation-to-cash/pay process
Integration with SAP ERP, EWM, GTS, and Event Management
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Persons
Author
Dr. Bernd Lauterbach studied and received a PhD in electrical engineering. After spending several years doing Assembler, C /C++, and Occam programming for image processing, GIS, and auto routing systems, he joined SAP in 1995 at the SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany as part of the SAP ERP LE-TRA development team. From 2000 to 2007 he was the lead architect for SAP Event Management and SAP Auto ID Infrastructure, and subsequently led development of SAP Transportation Management as a program/development manager. A second focus of his work is supporting transportation projects of strategic SAP customers from shipper and LSP industries. Since 2008, Bernd has worked as a senior business solution architect in the IBU Travel & Transportation area of SAP responsible for cargo and logistics.
Stefan Sauer has studied international business information technology at the Cooperative State University in Mannheim, Germany. After joining SAP in 2007, Stefan gathered experience in development and consulting teams in Germany as well as with SAP Research in Australia. With the ramp-up of SAP Transportation Management 8.0 in 2010, he accompanied the success of the software product as an SAP TM consultant, being involved in implementation projects in retail and ocean freight industries and participating in customer engagements in other industries such as fashion, rail, air freight, and manufacturing. Stefan supports projects both from a business process perspective by creating blueprints and implementation concepts, and from a technical perspective as the link between project and custom development. Furthermore, he is a trainer for SAP TM for both functional and technical training courses.
Jens Kappauf has been with SAP SE for more than 14 years. In his previous role as a senior business solution architect and industry solution manager, he was been responsible for the strategic direction of SAP's third-party and contract logistics solutions, while also focusing on technical integration, deployment, and implementation.
In 2015 he joined WESTERNACHER Business Management Consulting AG in Heidelberg, Germany, co-heading its global business unit for SAP EWM. With almost 20 years of SAP know-how, industry and international consulting experience, he is a hands-on expert on SAP solutions, templates, and global roll-outs, with a special focus on warehouse operations and spare parts logistics in the areas of after-market sales and service operations and supply chain planning, fulfillment, and execution. Jens holds a degree in business administration, is the author and coauthor of several logistics-related books and publications, and lives with his family near Heidelberg, Germany.
Dr. Jens Gottlieb received a PhD in computer science and has worked in software development at SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany since 2000. He has written three books and more than 25 scientific publications in the areas of transportation management and heuristic optimization algorithms, and has edited six books. Jens was the development architect for the vehicle scheduling and routing optimizer and the carrier selection optimizer, which are used in SAP TM, APO-TPVS and MRS. He headed development projects both in SAP TM and APO-TPVS, served as development manager for SAP TM, and has been a product owner for SAP TM responsible for transportation planning and network.
Dominik Metzger is a principal consultant in the SAP Supply Chain Execution space and the managing director of Westernacher Consulting Singapore. Dominik studied business management at the Cooperative State University in Mannheim, Germany. After joining SAP SE in 2007, he conducted a traineeship working in business development for supply chain management, strategy consulting, and solution marketing in New York. Dominik joined SAP Consulting in 2010, specializing in the transportation and logistics industry. In the following years, he delivered numerous implementation projects in the SAP Supply Chain Execution space across various industries: freight forwarding, ocean liner, trucking, retail, chemicals, and contract logistics.
After winning the first implementation project with SAP TM for an ocean carrier, Dominik has been working in Singapore since 2012 as a senior TM consultant. He founded the Southeast Asia subsidiary for Westernacher Consulting in Singapore in 2014. Dominik is now responsible for supporting global customer implementation projects in the transportation and logistics industry as a solution architect and driving business development activities across Asia.
Dr. Christopher Sürie has worked for more than ten years as an expert consultant in supply chain optimization and transportation management at SAP Deutschland AG & Co KG in Walldorf, Germany. In this position he has been involved in numerous international customer projects, implementing both SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer and SAP Transportation Management and focusing on their planning capabilities and optimization engines in production and transportation. He worked as a solution architect in several TM projects and taught numerous TM customer trainings. Prior to joining SAP he worked in the department of production and supply chain management at Darmstadt University of Technology and completed his PhD thesis in the area of production planning for process industries, which was awarded several prizes.
Content
... Preface ... 15
... Introduction ... 21
... Transportation and Logistics ... 23
... Protagonists and Roles ... 25
... Shippers ... 27
... Logistics Service Providers ... 27
... Modes of Transport ... 30
... Maritime Logistics ... 31
... Air Freight Logistics ... 32
... Land Logistics ... 33
... Multimodal Transportation ... 35
... Transportation Processes ... 36
... Direct Shipments ... 36
... Partial Loads ... 37
1 ... SAP Transportation Management Foundations ... 41
1.1 ... SAP Business Suite and SAP NetWeaver ... 41
1.2 ... SAP TM as Part of the SAP Business Suite ... 57
1.3 ... Functional Overview of SAP TM ... 69
2 ... Solution Architecture and Technological Concepts ... 85
2.1 ... Technological Foundation of SAP TM ... 87
2.2 ... User Interface Technologies ... 100
2.3 ... Frameworks and Tools Used throughout SAP TM ... 111
2.4 ... Integration Technology with SAP TM ... 129
3 ... Master Data ... 143
3.1 ... General Master Data ... 145
3.2 ... Transportation Network ... 182
3.3 ... Resources ... 233
4 ... Transportation Requirements and Order Management ... 261
4.1 ... Integration of SAP ERP Documents ... 263
4.2 ... Forwarding Orders and Forwarding Quotations ... 289
5 ... Transportation Capacity Management ... 341
5.1 ... Capacity Management Process ... 342
5.2 ... Allocations ... 351
5.3 ... Business Shares ... 359
5.4 ... Freight Bookings ... 362
6 ... Transportation Planning ... 379
6.1 ... Freight Units ... 380
6.2 ... Transportation Units ... 399
6.3 ... Manual Planning ... 408
6.4 ... Automated Planning ... 470
7 ... Carrier Selection and Subcontracting ... 503
7.1 ... Carrier Selection ... 504
7.2 ... Freight Order Management ... 522
7.3 ... Freight Tendering ... 542
8 ... Transportation Execution and Monitoring ... 553
8.1 ... Transportation Execution ... 554
8.2 ... SAP Event Management ... 585
9 ... Transportation Compliance ... 621
9.1 ... SAP Global Trade Services ... 625
9.2 ... SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management ... 646
9.3 ... External Compliance Service Providers ... 662
10 ... Transportation Charge Management ... 667
10.1 ... Charge Calculation Master Data ... 669
10.2 ... Contract Determination ... 700
10.3 ... Charge Calculation Logic in Selling, Buying, and Internal Invoicing Processes ... 708
11 ... Strategic Customer and Vendor Contract Management ... 741
11.1 ... Strategic Freight Selling ... 743
11.2 ... Strategic Freight Procurement ... 752
12 ... Charge Settlement ... 771
12.1 ... Charge Settlement and Billing ... 773
12.2 ... Cost Distribution and Internal Settlement ... 816
12.3 ... Settlement with SAP hybris Billing ... 835
13 ... Integration with Other Components ... 841
13.1 ... Analytics ... 843
13.2 ... Integration with SAP EWM ... 861
13.3 ... Integration with SAP EWM for Transit Warehouse ... 885
13.4 ... Collaborative Transportation Management ... 902
13.5 ... Integration with SAP Customer Relationship Management ... 913
14 ... Implementation Best Practices ... 919
14.1 ... Large Transportation Management System Installations ... 920
14.2 ... Use Preconfigured Sample Scenarios ... 922
14.3 ... Use Rapid Deployment Solutions ... 923
14.4 ... Customer Onboarding in SAP TM Installations ... 925
14.5 ... Use Central Control Elements in SAP TM Setup ... 927
14.6 ... Optimize the Sequence of SAP TM Configuration ... 933
14.7 ... Consider SAP TM's Strengths and Limitations ... 935
14.8 ... Enhance SAP TM via Custom Development ... 937
15 ... Summary and Outlook ... 939
... Appendices ... 945
A ... Additional References ... 947
B ... Abbreviations ... 949
C ... The Authors ... 955
... Index ... 959