Transportation Management in SAP (SAP TM)

Plan and execute transports simply and clearly in SAP TM

Your Requirements

  • Cost reduction in transport management and more efficiency and overview
  • More transparency in freight costs settlement
  • Better utilization of the existing transport capacity
  • Consistent mapping of the complete transport process

Our Solution

  • Transportation planning and execution
  • Freight management
  • Transportation costs control
  • SAP FI/CO integration
  • Illustration of multimodal transports

Your Benefits

  • Real time overview over status of all freights and shipments
  • Visualization of all movements
  • Overview over all relevant indicators in cockpits
  • Consistent processes with SAP ERP, SAP EWM and SAP EM
  • Integration into the existing SAP landscape without interfaces

The SERKEM Solution in Detail

SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) is an independent transport management system within the Supply Chain Execution Suite of SAP.

It maps the complete transport process from order collection over planning and execution up to freight costs calculation and settlement. Due to the modular structure, SAP TM can map the requirements of forwarders as well as the loading industry efficiently and scalable.

 
If SAP TM is used together with the other modules of the SAP SCE platform (SAP EWM and SAP EM), the transport- and warehouse management in TM and EWM can be used in conjunction with the event control from EM, as well as reacting to current developments in real time. So in the transport logistics, which covers about 5 percent of the turnover, potential savings can be realized through integrated processes.

At a glance

Transportation Execution and Planning

  • Order management for carriers (land, sea, air)
  • Integrated order processing (Order to Cash, Procure to Pay)
  • Automatic, interactive and manual transport planning with consideration of duty- and dangerous goods- modalities
  • Planning of transport lines
  • Integrated graphics and cards for optimized planning
  • Scheduling
  • Delivery- and freight hiring
  • Connection transport
  • Freight space bookings

  • Calculation of transport costs
  • Freight arrangements with customers and carriers
  • Freight settlement to customers
  • Payment preparation for payments to suppliers

  • Customer contracts
  • Delivery- and  freight requests as well as shipment entry
  • Order-to-Cash
  • Procure-to-Pay
  • Simulation of transport costs

  • Seamless integration of SAP FI/CO for invoice verification and credit note procedure
  • Freight rates check and credit note procedure
  • Accounts finding, partial payments and collective payment in the financial system
  • Profitability analysis and profit sharing in the controlling

  • Clear dashboards with key figures and reports
  • Flexible  adaptable, browser- compatible GUI
  • Integration of tender- markets and platforms
  • Illustration of multimodal transports
  • Efficient and central management of incoming- and outgoing transports
  • Viability review of transports with integrated approval workflow
  • Easy pooling of transports, either central or according to subsidiaries
  • Multimodal end-to-end transportation planning in real time
  • Minimization of transport costs through choice of optimal routes and means of transport
  • Exact planning and optimization on basis of actual information improve the service level
  • Reduction of costs due to high-grade automatable, efficient processes
  • Detailed, user-friendly illustration of the complete process
  • Comfortable administration of freights with SAP ERP-integration
  • Deep integration in SAP-ERP-processes are possible
  • Better freight cost calculation and transport costs settlement
  • Extensive automatization of freight cost management possible
  • Better tour planning through integrated improvement heuristics
  • Integrated SAP TM tender-platform makes the tender-process transparent
  • Integration of sanctions– and embargo- lists
  • Improvement of the freight capacity
  • Connection of telematics solutions and mobile devices, even over SAP TM app
  • Time slot management

The integration of SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) with the SAP Extended Warehouse Management application (SAP EWM) makes it possible to integrate the transportation planning in SAP TM with the SAP-ERP-supply- and transport work and the SAP-EWM warehouse planning and execution.

There is to consider, that SAP TM is integrated with SAP EWM over SAP ERP. That means the data is not directly transmitted between SAP TM and SAP EWM.

TM-ERP-EWM: order-based transportation planning in SAP TM

The order-based transportation planning in SAP TM with the integration of SAP EWM is based on SAP-ERP-customer-orders and delivery.

The transport is planned in SAP TM but warehouse activities are planned and executed in SAP EWM. SAP ERP is between the two systems where customer orders, deliveries and transports were created.

Following elements are included:

  • ERP-TM-Order Integration
  • ERP-TM-Delivery Integration
  • ERP-TM-Transport Integration
  • ERP-EWM-Delivery Integration
  • ERP-EWM-Transport Integration

The delivery-based transport planning in SAP TM with the Integration of SAP EWM is based on SAP-ERP-deliveries and includes ERP-TM-delivery- and transport integration as well as ERP-EWM-delivery- and transport integration.

The following processes proceed exemplary in the separate systems:

SAP EWM

  • Creation of requirements for deliveries and orders
  • Creation of transport units
  • Warehouse planning and execution
  • Picking and packaging
  • Accounting of outgoing goods

SAP ERP

  • Create deliveries for customer orders
  • Create transports

SAP TM

  • Creation of delivery-based transport requirements and freight units
  • Implementation of transportation planning
  • Creation of freight bills

If the transportation planning proceeds in SAP EWM, the process is based on SAP-ERP-customer orders and deliveries.

The majority of activities proceed in this case in SAP EWM. These include:

  • Creation of delivery requirements and orders
  • Creation of transport units
  • Implementation of warehouse planning and execution
  • Commissioning and packaging
  • Accounting of outgoing goods

At the beginning of the process only the deliveries for customer orders in SAP ERP were created.  There, also the creation of the transport proceeds, following to the accounting of outgoing goods in SAP EWM. For the cost calculation and freight accounting, the transports will be finally transferred to SAP TM.