About the solution
SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) is the effective management of all types of transportation throughout a company’s logistics network.
SAP TM allows you to effectively automate all business processes related to transportation management, including transportation planning, order management, transportation execution, interaction with carriers, tariff and settlement management. Thanks to the perfect organization of transport components, SAP TM helps to maintain high customer loyalty, helps to reduce transportation costs, increases the flexibility and efficiency of the transportation management process.
SAP TM is:
- Local or cloud deployment of the system;
- Transportation management and demand planning;
- Interactive tender for the processing of transportation orders;
- Built-in portal for interaction with service providers;
- Seamless integration with SAP EWM warehouse management solution and SAP YL yard management solution.
Functionality and Benefits
Sale and purchase of transport services:
- Maintenance of contracts for transportation;
- Requests for rate calculation;
- Requests for transportation;
- Creation of transportation;
- Maintenance of service catalogues;
- Calculating and requesting bids.
Transportation planning and execution:
- Manual scheduling;
- Automatic planning and optimization;
- Setting routes;
- Maintenance and accounting of schedules;
- Selection of the carrier;
- Transportation ordering;
- Organizing and holding tenders;
- Consolidation of cargoes;
- Ocean freight;
- Rescheduling.
Settlements on transportation (rates and invoices):
- Accounting for costs and tariffs;
- Rate agreements with the customer;
- Rate agreements with the supplier;
- Invoicing the customer;
- Preparation and coordination of invoices;
- Accounting of contractors’ invoices;
- Verification of invoices.
Integration with financial accounting (accounting, controlling):
- Invoicing;
- Freight Auditing and Self-Billing (MM);
- Postings;
- Accruals and payments;
- Control of payments;
- Profitability analysis;
- Divisions of profits.
SAP TM is an improvement in the efficiency of freight management, fleet and logistics, reducing costs and increasing ROI for global and domestic transportation in all modes of transport.
