Transportation Management with SAP S/4HANA
By land, sea, or air. No matter how you transport goods, fast, secure, and cost-effective delivery is always crucial. In this standard work, Tobias Berger, Marius Jachmann, Bernd Lauterbach, and Christopher Sürie show you how to integrate TM into your SAP S/4HANA environment and how to make optimal use of all its functions. You will learn step by step how to set up a transport network, plan routes, process freight orders, and calculate and bill costs. Benefit from detailed process descriptions, customizing instructions, and valuable expert tips on integration, migration, and collaboration with logistics service providers and customers.
- Comprehensive guide to TM in SAP S/4HANA
- Customizing, processes, and integration scenarios in detail
- With numerous best practices and expert tips
You'll learn about:
- Fast and secure from A to B:
How to enable smooth transport processing: Learn how to master order management, transport planning, transport monitoring, service provider selection, freight billing, and many other tasks.
- Best practices for implementation and use:
This book is your reliable guide to customizing TM. It also contains numerous tips and tricks that will make your daily work in transport processing easier.
- New features in Release 2025:
Would you like to find out about the new features? Or are you interested in specific TM functions in SAP S/4HANA? You will find what you are looking for in this book. You will also learn which success factors are crucial when switching to SAP S/4HANA.
Key Highlights:
- Fundamentals and architecture
- Master data management
- Transport requests
- Transport planning
- Carrier selection
- Transport execution
- Compliance
- Freight cost management and billing
- Integration with other SAP components
- Implementation and migration
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- Introduction
- 1 Introduction to transport management
- 1.1 Transportation as part of industrial processes
- 1.2 Transport processes, movements, and roles
- 1.3 Functional areas of the transport management system
- 1.4 Transportation in the digital age
- 2 Introduction to SAP Transportation Management in SAP S/4HANA
- 2.1 Software for transport processing
- 2.1.1 Categories of software systems
- 2.1.2 Standard software as the basis for corporate IT
- 2.2 SAP S/4HANA as a future-proof platform
- 2.2.1 SAP S/4HANA as standard software
- 2.2.2 Features and concepts of an SAP S/4HANA system
- 2.2.3 Structure of SAP S/4HANA
- 2.2.4 Deployment of SAP S/4HANA
- 2.2.5 Deployment and integration options for TM
- 2.3 RISE with SAP and its components
- 2.3.1 SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP)
- 2.3.2 Business Process Transformation with Signavio and LeanIX
- 2.3.3 SAP Business Network applications
- 2.3.4 The Clean Core Strategy
- 2.4 TM as part of SAP S/4HANA
- 2.4.1 SAP Transportation Management
- 2.4.2 Enterprise Management with SAP S/4HANA
- 2.4.3 Other SAP S/4HANA Products
- 2.4.4 SAP Business Network for Logistics
- 2.4.5 Components for SAP Business Suite
- 2.4.6 TM Function Overview
- 2.5 Summary
- 3 Solution architecture and technological concepts
- 3.1 Technological basis of TM
- 3.1.1 Storage of Data in BOPF
- 3.1.2 Data processing with BOPF
- 3.1.3 Business Add-Ins
- 3.2 Technologies for user interfaces
- 3.2.1 SAP Fiori
- 3.2.2 Floorplan Manager and Floorplan Manager BOPF Integration
- 3.2.3 Defining User-Specific Roles, Catalogs, and Menus
- 3.2.4 Customizing Screen Areas
- 3.3 Development Frameworks for TM
- 3.3.1 Conditions Using the Business Rules Framework
- 3.3.2 Incompatibilities
- 3.3.3 Post Processing Framework
- 3.3.4 Creation of print documents
- 3.3.5 Optimizer
- 3.3.6 Process Controller Framework
- 3.3.7 Background RFC Trigger
- 3.4 Integration Technology with TM
- 3.4.1 SOA-based integration with SAP Process Integration
- 3.4.2 Integration with SAP Process Integration without Predefined Content
- 3.4.3 Generic Web Service Interface for TOR Objects
- 3.5 Summary
- 4 Master Data
- 4.1 General Master Data
- 4.1.1 Organizational structure
- 4.1.2 Business partners
- 4.1.3 Materials
- 4.1.4 Dangerous Goods
- 4.1.5 Master Data Creation and Integration
- 4.2 Transport network
- 4.2.1 Locations
- 4.2.2 Transport zones
- 4.2.3 Transport relationships
- 4.2.4 Timetables
- 4.2.5 Transfer Locations
- 4.2.6 Standard routes
- 4.2.7 Traffic relationships
- 4.2.8 Transport Network Cockpit and Transport Network Overview
- 4.2.9 Integration of Geographic Services
- 4.3 Equipment Types and Resources
- 4.3.1 Mode of transport and means of transport
- 4.3.2 Equipment types and groups
- 4.3.3 Vehicle Types and Resources
- 4.3.4 Container types and resources
- 4.3.5 Calendar resources and handling resources
- 4.4 Summary
- 5 Transport requirements and order management
- 5.1 Fundamentals
- 5.2 Starting the Transport Planning Process
- 5.2.1 Integration of customer orders
- 5.2.2 Defining the logistics integration profile
- 5.2.3 Integration of Sales Documents
- 5.2.4 Integration of delivery documents
- 5.2.5 Integration of TM and nJIT processes
- 5.2.6 Integration scenarios for order-based and delivery-based planning
- 5.2.7 Architecture variants of the integration scenarios
- 5.2.8 Order-related and delivery-related transport requirements
- 5.2.9 Integration of delivery schedules
- 5.3 Shipping orders
- 5.3.1 General data
- 5.3.2 Items
- 5.3.3 Business partners
- 5.3.4 Locations and dates
- 5.3.5 Routing
- 5.4 Summary
- 6 Transport planning
- 6.1 Documents and Decisions
- 6.2 Freight units
- 6.2.1 Definition of the freight unit
- 6.2.2 Properties of freight units
- 6.2.3 Formation of cargo units
- 6.3 Uniform production of packages
- 6.3.1 Overview
- 6.3.2 Integration of uniform generation of packages into the planning process
- 6.3.3 Packaging instructions
- 6.3.4 Packaging specifications
- 6.3.5 Creation of packages
- 6.4 Transport units
- 6.4.1 Transport units versus freight units, freight documents, and transport orders
- 6.4.2 Trailer units
- 6.4.3 Wagon units
- 6.4.4 Container units
- 6.4.5 Package units
- 6.5 Normalized quantities
- 6.5.1 Normalized quantity and additional normalized quantity
- 6.5.2 Normalized quantity per product and unit of measure
- 6.5.3 Planning with normalized quantities
- 6.6 Planning strategies, profiles, and settings
- 6.6.1 Planning strategies
- 6.6.2 Profiles and settings
- 6.7 Manual planning
- 6.7.1 Transport cockpit
- 6.7.2 Page Layouts
- 6.7.3 Hierarchical View and Dual View
- 6.7.4 Key figure area
- 6.7.5 Map
- 6.7.6 Gantt chart
- 6.7.7 Loading plan
- 6.7.8 Selection Criteria and Profile and Layout Sets
- 6.7.9 Working in the Transport Cockpit
- 6.7.10 Transport proposal
- 6.7.11 Scheduling
- 6.8 Automated Planning
- 6.8.1 Background Planning and VSR Optimization
- 6.8.2 Configuring Optimizer Settings
- 6.8.3 Vehicle Scheduling and Routing: Target Criteria for Planning
- 6.8.4 Vehicle Scheduling and Routing: Restrictions for Planning
- 6.8.5 Vehicle Scheduling and Routing: Optimization Algorithm
- 6.8.6 Explanation function
- 6.8.7 Load consolidation
- 6.8.8 Cargo space planning
- 6.9 Integration with External Transport Management Systems
- 6.10 Summary
- 7 Freight order management and subcontracting
- 7.1 Freight orders
- 7.1.1 Configuration and user interface
- 7.1.2 Freight order items
- 7.1.3 Special processes for freight orders
- 7.1.4 Service orders
- 7.2 Freight bookings
- 7.2.1 Sea freight bookings
- 7.2.2 Air freight bookings
- 7.3 Shipments
- 7.3.1 Process and creation
- 7.3.2 Configuration and user interface
- 7.4 Capacity management
- 7.4.1 Process
- 7.4.2 Systematic creation of schedule-based freight documents
- 7.4.3 Change management for schedules
- 7.4.4 Quotas
- 7.4.5 Business shares
- 7.5 Carrier determination and carrier selection
- 7.5.1 Carrier determination
- 7.5.2 Carrier selection process
- 7.5.3 Target criteria of the optimizer for carrier selection
- 7.5.4 Restrictions for carrier selection
- 7.5.5 Configuration of carrier selection
- 7.6 Freight tender
- 7.6.1 Configuration
- 7.6.2 Tender process
- 7.6.3 Freight tendering with SAP Business Network for Logistics
- 7.7 Summary
- 8 Execution and Monitoring of Shipments
- 8.1 Transport Execution
- 8.1.1 Creating Documents
- 8.1.2 Deviations
- 8.1.3 Export/import processing
- 8.1.4 Status of execution documents
- 8.2 SAP Event Management
- 8.2.1 Event Handlers and Event Messages
- 8.2.2 SAP Event Management Process
- 8.2.3 Setup and Configuration of SAP Event Management
- 8.2.4 Event Messages and Event Processing
- 8.2.5 User Interaction, Lists, and Background Processing
- 8.2.6 Integration of SAP Event Management with Other Components
- 8.3 SAP Business Network for Logistics Global Track and Trace
- 8.3.1 Architecture and Features
- 8.3.2 Integration Scenarios
- 8.4 Summary
- 9 Compliance with Transportation Regulations
- 9.1 SAP Global Trade Services
- 9.1.1 Functional Overview
- 9.1.2 SAP S/4HANA for International Trade Compared to SAP GTS
- 9.1.3 Integration of SAP GTS and TM
- 9.1.4 Compliance with export regulations for sanctions list checks and embargo checks
- 9.1.5 Customs Services for the Export of Goods
- 9.1.6 Management of import customs clearance and transit procedures
- 9.2 Dangerous goods
- 9.2.1 Regulations for dangerous goods
- 9.2.2 Classification of dangerous goods
- 9.2.3 Requirements for dangerous goods checks during transport
- 9.2.4 Configuration of dangerous goods checks in transport management
- 9.2.5 Loading program for dangerous goods contents
- 9.2.6 TM setup at application level for dangerous goods support
- 9.2.7 Dangerous goods data and checks in TM
- 9.3 Summary
- 10 Transportation Cost Management
- 10.1 Master Data and Customizing for Freight Cost Calculation
- 10.1.1 Freight agreements
- 10.1.2 Calculation Schema
- 10.1.3 Cost type
- 10.1.4 Rate Price Table
- 10.1.5 Scale
- 10.2 Contract determination
- 10.2.1 Contract determination logic
- 10.2.2 Configuration of contract determination
- 10.3 Cost calculation logic
- 10.3.1 Fundamentals
- 10.3.2 Mode-specific cost calculation for road and rail freight transport
- 10.3.3 Event-based cost calculation
- 10.3.4 Analysis of cost calculation and freight cost estimation
- 10.4 Strategic freight purchasing
- 10.4.1 Functional overview
- 10.4.2 Process for freight agreement requests
- 10.5 Summary
- 11 Freight cost settlement
- 11.1 Freight cost settlement and posting
- 11.1.1 Creation of freight billing documents
- 11.1.2 Structure of freight billing documents
- 11.1.3 Status sequence in the settlement process
- 11.1.4 Integration of freight billing documents with materials management
- 11.1.5 Clarification case management
- 11.1.6 Credit memos for freight documents
- 11.1.7 Settlement scenarios for air freight
- 11.2 Cost Distribution
- 11.2.1 Cost distribution process
- 11.2.2 Configuration of cost allocation
- 11.2.3 Integration into billing management
- 11.3 Summary
- 12 Freight forwarding calculation and billing for logistics service providers
- 12.1 Master data for transport cost calculation
- 12.1.1 Forwarding agreements
- 12.1.2 Internal agreements
- 12.1.3 Service products and standard operating procedures
- 12.2 Logic of transport cost calculation
- 12.2.1 Transportation cost calculation for air freight
- 12.2.2 Transport cost calculation with freight forwarders
- 12.2.3 Transport cost calculation for container management
- 12.3 Invoicing and billing
- 12.3.1 Creating freight forwarding invoices
- 12.3.2 Structure of the freight forwarding billing document
- 12.3.3 Integration of freight forwarding billing documents with sales in SAP S/4HANA
- 12.3.4 Business scenarios in the freight forwarding billing process
- 12.3.5 Internal billing
- 12.3.6 Profitability analysis
- 12.4 SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management
- 12.5 Summary
- 13 Integration with Other Components
- 13.1 Analyses
- 13.1.1 SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
- 13.1.2 Analytical Base Layer
- 13.1.3 Transport Scenarios in SAP Analytics Cloud
- 13.1.4 Integration with SAP BW
- 13.1.5 Integration with SAP BW/4HANA
- 13.2 Integration with EWM
- 13.2.1 Introduction to EWM
- 13.2.2 Direct EWM-TM Integration
- 13.3 Extended Goods Receipt and Shipping Process
- 13.3.1 Simplifications of the integration architecture in the extended goods receipt and shipping process
- 13.3.2 Warehouse-controlled execution
- 13.3.3 Transport-Controlled Execution
- 13.3.4 Integration with SAP Global Trade Services
- 13.3.5 Returns
- 13.3.6 Multimodal Transportation
- 13.3.7 Integration of a decentralized EWM and TM system
- 13.3.8 Comparison of integration scenarios
- 13.4 EWM integration for transit warehouses
- 13.4.1 Integration in the goods receipt process
- 13.4.2 Integration in the goods issue process
- 13.5 Warehouse performance accounting
- 13.5.1 Recording services and billing the customer
- 13.5.2 Recording services and credit memo procedures
- 13.6 Integration of customer order scheduling
- 13.6.1 Integration options
- 13.6.2 Integration configuration
- 13.6.3 Configuration in TM
- 13.7 SAP Yard Logistics
- 13.7.1 Overview of Process Integration
- 13.7.2 Introduction to SAP Yard Logistics
- 13.7.3 User Operations in SAP Yard Logistics
- 13.7.4 Mobile Scenarios in SAP Yard Logistics
- 13.7.5 Integration with Other Systems and Devices
- 13.8 SAP Business Network for Logistics
- 13.8.1 SAP Business Network for Logistics – Freight Collaboration
- 13.8.2 Onboarding Business Partners
- 13.9 SAP Direct Store Delivery
- 13.10 Summary
- 14 Migration to and Operation of TM in SAP S/4HANA
- 14.1 Migration from TM in SAP Business Suite to TM in SAP S/4HANA
- 14.2 Monitoring a TM System
- 14.2.1 Web Services
- 14.2.2 Processing documents with document errors
- 14.2.3 Optimization logs
- 14.2.4 Dump analysis
- 14.2.5 Application log
- 14.2.6 bgRFC Trigger
- 14.3 Managing the data volume
- 14.3.1 Data avoidance
- 14.3.2 Deleting Data
- 14.3.3 Data archiving
- 14.4 Summary
- 15 Outlook
- List of abbreviations
- The authors
- Index
Transportation Management mit SAP S/4HANA
Zu Lande, zu Wasser und in der Luft. Ganz gleich, auf welchem Wege Sie Güter transportieren – eine schnelle, sichere und kosteneffektive Lieferung ist immer entscheidend. In diesem Standardwerk zeigen Ihnen Tobias Berger, Marius Jachmann, Bernd Lauterbach und Christopher Sürie, wie Sie TM in Ihre SAP S/4HANA-Umgebung integrieren und wie Sie alle Funktionen optimal nutzen. Sie lernen Schritt für Schritt, wie Sie ein Transportnetzwerk aufbauen, Touren planen, Frachtaufträge abwickeln sowie Kosten berechnen und abrechnen. Profitieren Sie von detaillierten Prozessbeschreibungen, Customizing-Anleitungen und wertvollen Expertentipps zur Integration, Migration und Zusammenarbeit mit Logistikdienstleistern und Kunden.
- Umfassender Leitfaden zu TM in SAP S/4HANA
- Customizing, Prozesse und Integrationsszenarien im Detail
- Mit zahlreichen Best Practices und Expertentipps
Du lernst etwas über:
- Schnell und sicher von A nach B:
So ermöglichen Sie eine reibungslose Transportabwicklung: Lernen Sie, wie Sie Auftragsmanagement, Transportplanung, Transportüberwachung, Dienstleisterauswahl, Frachtabrechnung und viele andere Aufgaben meistern.
- Best Practices für Implementierung und Nutzung:
Dieses Buch ist Ihr verlässlicher Ratgeber für das Customizing von TM. Darüber hinaus enthält es zahlreiche Tipps und Tricks, die Ihre tägliche Arbeit in der Transportabwicklung erleichtern.
- Neuerungen von Release 2025:
Sie möchten sich über die Neuerungen informieren? Oder interessieren Sie bestimmte Funktionen von TM in SAP S/4HANA? In diesem Buch finden Sie, was Sie suchen. Sie erfahren auch, welche Erfolgsfaktoren beim Umstieg auf SAP S/4HANA entscheidend sind.
Aus dem Inhalt:
- Grundlagen und Architektur
- Stammdatenverwaltung
- Transportanforderungen
- Transportplanung
- Spediteurauswahl
- Transportdurchführung
- Compliance
- Frachtkostenmanagement und -abrechnung
- Integration mit anderen SAP-Komponenten
- Implementierung und Migration
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