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SAP S/4HANA
March 1st , 2024
Transportation Management

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 SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain for Transportation Management

Holistic Transportation Management

Comprehensive process and multimodal coverage

• Shipping industries and freight forwarder industries

• Large and midmarket enterprises
• Domestic and international transportation
• Inbound and outbound freight management
• Simple and complex high-volume operations

Capacity and Order Management Freight Execution Freight

Demand Planning & Freight Planning and Monitoring Settlement

Tracking and Reporting

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SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain for TM
Order Management

Order
Management

 Integrated ERP
Transportation Demand
Business Benefits
 Personal Worklists
 Improve the efficiency of order and process
 Sales & Stock Transfer
management
Order Scheduling  Generate dynamically optimized routing proposals
 Schedule management based on business rules
 Order Life-Cycle  Minimize freight costs
Management & Visibility  Enhance customer service

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Order Management

Holistic integration and management of all

transportation demand

Support order-to-cash / procure-to-pay processes

Transportation Demand
 Sales orders
 Purchase orders
 Stock transport orders
 Returns
 Inbound / Outbound deliveries

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SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain for TM
Transportation Planning

Transportation
Planning
Business Benefits
• Manual and automated
• Improve resource utilization and carrier
planning and
selection to reduce transportation costs
dispatching
• Handle huge volumes of data thanks to
• Routing, resource, and
automated planning processes
carrier selection
• On the fly drag and drop planning
• Order tendering
• Select the most cost effective modality easily
• Dangerous goods • Combine decentralized local business views
management
to identify synergies
• Planning of parcels • Achieve on-time delivery

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Freight Planning & Tendering
Optimal Transportation Planning and Resource Utilization

Holistic Effective Advanced Compliant

 Consider all freight demand  Plan manually, map-based &  Automated load planning  Dangerous goods
& resources automated  Pallet / package building  Trade regulation
 Cover all geographies &  VSR optimization  Map-based resource tracking
modes  Gantt chart planning
 Select carrier and tendering

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Best-in-class Freight Planning Capabilities
Comprehensive Visibility & Powerful Planning Tools
Transportation
demand
 Manage freight units Supporting data
 Create building  Freight execution status
strategies  Carrier ranking
 Freight charges etc.

Planning
constraints
 Availability and Freight documents
capacity  Freight orders & units
 Loading / unloading  Trailer documents & rail
durations  Ocean & air bookings
 Incompatibilities
 Driver constraints

Plan resources & schedules Map-based visualization & planning

 Vehicles, trailers, containers, compartments,  Gantt chart
railcars  Map views
 Land, ocean, air  3rd party GIS integration
 Schedule transportation
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Freight Planning with Gantt Chart

• Provide a visualization of demand and execution status

(un-/planned demand, progress of activities)

• Manage fleet/resource availability

• Plan resources interactively by drag and drop

• Adjust transportation plan dynamically based on reported

events

• Integrate Gantt chart and map with geographical and time

perspective

• Visualize load/unload planning results with package unit and

operating times/calendar

• Improve planning efficiency with attribute-based planning

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Freight Planning on Multiple Screens

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 Package Building and Load Planning Optimization

Package Building
Minimize number of pallets considering
constraints such as package attributes,
product stacking rules, customer specific
requirements, height limit, etc.

Product quantities Package / pallet building Pallets / packages

Load Planning
 Optimally utilize loading space on
transportation resources
 Find appropriate location for each package /
pallet on the truck
 Consider various constraints such as
dimensions, vehicle attributes, stacking
rules, loading sequence, flexible split deck

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Freight Planning with Transportation Management

Plan freight orders with optimal

routes

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Freight Planning with Transportation Management

Minimize number of pallets

Maximize truck utilization

Optimal utilization of loading space

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Flexible And Collaborative Freight Tendering And Carrier Selection

Rules-based Carrier Determination

• Freight agreements
• Costs
• Lane allocations
• Business share

Multi-variant Tendering
• Peer-to-Peer RFQ
• Broadcast RFQ
• Direct freight order assignment

Flexible Collaboration
• Real-time tendering process, status monitor
• B2B, email, sms communication
• Authorization-based RFQ processing

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SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain for TM
Transportation Execution

Transportation
Execution

• Extended warehouse integration

Business Benefits
for execution
 Improve cargo handling
• Logistics execution
 Achieve faster, more dynamic, and
responsive logistics execution • Execution monitoring and event
 Reduce shipping costs with a tracking
streamlined process and maximized • Capacity monitoring
efficiency • Transportation print documents
• Trade regulation compliance
(using SAP GTS)
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Freight Execution & Monitoring
Efficient Freight Execution Management & Tracking

Full process, shipment and status visibility

• Integrated customs / warehouse process

• Real-time track and trace

• End-to-End shipment tracking

• Efficient cargo management

• Comprehensive freight document management

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Freight Execution & Monitoring

SHIPPERS Business Partners

Rates

Schedules

Agreements

Tenders

Freight order / bookings

Freight documents

Shipping status / events

Invoices

Comprehensive, Flexible Business Partner Communication & Collaboration

via B2B, mobile apps, WebUIs, file up/download, print documents, email, fax, SMS
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Document and Output Management Details

Comprehensive workflow, document and output

functions

Standard transportation document templates

 For road, sea, and air transportation
 Comprehensive set of preconfigured, standard documents

Flexible output management

• Automatic / manual printing, email, fax, B2B
communication

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International, Cross-System Shipment & Event Tracking

Comprehensive shipment tracking

• End-to-end visibility
• Full milestone tracking: from loading begin to
proof-of-delivery
• Freight units, orders, bookings & containers
• Shipper, carrier & consignee views
• Map-based event location visibility
• Cross-system & organization
• Flexible event notification

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SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain for TM
Freight Costing and Settlement

Freight Costing
and Settlement

• Business Benefits • Freight agreement

• Improve accuracy and transparency with automatic management
transportation cost calculation • Charge and tariff
• Integrate transportation management and billing management
• Increase invoice accuracy • Integration with SAP
• Add freight cost to product cost S/4HANA
• Transportation charge
calculation

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Freight Charges & Settlement

Charge Management Freight Settlement Freight cost accounting Freight cost reporting
• Cost distribution:

• Comprehensive • Post accruals • General ledger posting  Embedded real-time

agreement management • Invoice verification • Material valuation reporting
• Flexible charge and rate and payment • Sales order profitability  Flexible business
management • Add freight cost to warehouse cost
• Advanced freight charge product cost reporting

calculation

Accurate, Integrated Freight Costing, Settlement and Reporting

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Freight Charges & Settlement

Comprehensive rates Advanced Air / Ocean Rail

• Various origin / • Charging for parcels • Commodity based • Rule 11 on freight order
destination point • Collective order rate charges • Consider day of week
classifications lookup • Prepaid and collect on pricing
• Rates based on: • Condition and event ocean booking
Equipment, weight, based charging • Index table based fuel
volume, distance, • Agreement consumption surcharge calculation
discounts, tolls, taxes,
• Dispute management
etc.
• Automatic change
mgmt. process

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SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain for TM
Analytics and Reporting

Analytics and
Reporting

• Dashboards for the

SAP HANA platform
Business Benefits
• Support real-time, data-driven decision making • Overview pages with
KPIs to manage your
• Gain in-depth business insights operational business
• Reduce data complexity
• Flexible reporting
• Real-time data based
reporting

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 Real-time analytics SAP TM based on CDS
Drill down to order level details

SAP TM
1

SAP Fiori
launchpad 4
2

3 Overview page
Quantities

SAP TM
Freight Order
5

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SAP Transportation Management –
Deployment Options

On-Premise

• TM In S/4HANA OP

• Embedded
• Standalone

Cloud

• S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition

• In-stack (embedded)
• Extra-stack (decentral)

Enterprise Management

S/4HANA TM S/4HANA TM

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SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain for TM
Advanced Transportation Management
• Shipping and freight-forwarding industries
• Holistic End-to-End Transportation Management
• Early planning based on orders
• Plan combined inbound and outbound deliveries/orders
SAP S/4HANA SUPPLY CHAIN
• Optimized transportation planning
• Peer-to-peer / broadcast tendering
• Advanced charge calculation and freight settlement
Suite
• Dispute management
• Support real-time, data driven decision making with CDS-based analytics
Products S/4HANA Supply Chain for
Transportation Management
• Strategic freight management

Transportation Management
Digital Core
Basic Transportation Management
• Shipping industries only
• Delivery-based planning
• Create freight orders with grouped inbound or outbound
Enterprise deliveries
Management
• Manual and rule-based planning
• Monitor freight orders without Event Management
• Basic charge calculation and freight settlement

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