The definitive book on TM is back! See how transportation management fits into your SAP S/4HANA landscape and find out what's new for basic and advanced shipping. Walk through master data to get your transportation network up and running. Then follow step-by-step instructions to set up and use embedded TM functionality in SAP S/4HANA for transportation planning, freight order management, transportation execution, charge management, and more. Round out your implementation with detailed integration scenarios, migration tips, and best practices.

In this book, you'll learn about:

a. Configuration
Set up master data for TM in SAP S/4HANA. Configure general master data such as business partners and materials, manage equipment types and resources, and get your transportation network up and running.

b. Core Processes
Follow step-by-step instructions to transport your goods. Perform manual and automated planning, manage orders and capacities, execute and monitor your transports, calculate and settle charges, and more.

c. Integration
Create a seamless transportation landscape. Connect to key solutions such as SAP Business Network for Logistics and SAP Global Trade Services. Explore the latest integration scenarios, including extended warehouse management (EWM) and advanced shipping and receiving.

Highlights include:

1) Basic and advanced TM
2) Master data
3) Transportation planning
4) Freight order management
5) Subcontracting
6) Execution and monitoring
7) Transportation compliance
8) Charge management
9) Calculation and settlement
10) Logistics service providers (LSPs)
11) Integration
12) Best practices




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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.

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.

Dr. Christopher Sürie has worked for more than fifteen years as a principal consultant in supply chain optimization and transportation management at SAP Deutschland SE & Co KG in Walldorf, Germany. In this position, he has been involved in numerous international customer projects, implementing both SAP APO and SAP TM and focusing on their planning capabilities and optimization engines in production and transportation. He worked as a solution architect in several SAP TM projects and taught numerous SAP TM customer trainings. Before joining SAP, he worked in the department of production and supply chain management at Darmstadt University of Technology and completed his prize-winning PhD thesis in the area of production planning for process industries. Ulrich Benz is an SAP supply chain management specialist with a focus on SAP Transportation Management. He has been managing and advising projects in this area covering different industries for the past 11 years. In his current role as solution advisor, he supports customers' transitions to SAP S/4HANA. Read more Continue reading Read less