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.Stefan Sauer has been with SAP since 2007. With the ramp-up of SAP Transportation Management 8.0 in 2010, he accompanied the success of the software product as an SAP TM consultant, being involved in implementation projects in retail, rail, and ocean freight industries and participating in customer engagements in other industries such as fashion, airfreight, and manufacturing.Stefan supported projects both from a business process perspective by creating blueprints and implementation concepts, and from a technical perspective as the link between project and custom development. Furthermore, he worked as a trainer for SAP TM for both functional and technical training courses.Stefan is now SAP's solution manager for the industry sector of ocean freight and port operations.Dr. Jens Gottlieb received a PhD in computer science and has worked in supply chain software development at SAP SE in Walldorf, Germany, since 2000. He has written five 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, SAP APO-TPVS, and SAP MRS. He led development projects both in SAP TM and SAP APO-TPVS and served as development manager for SAP TM. Holding the position of chief product expert, Jens works as product owner for SAP TM, where he is 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.

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... Preface ... 17

... How This Book is Organized ... 19

... Who This Book is For ... 23

... Acknowledgements ... 24

... Introduction ... 27

... Transportation Processes in the Industries ... 29

... Transportation Processes, Movements, and Roles ... 36

... Transportation Management System Functional Areas ... 47

... Transportation in the Digital Age ... 49

1 ... SAP Transportation Management Foundation ... 51

1.1 ... Standard Software for Transportation ... 52

1.2 ... SAP S/4HANA as a Future-Proof Platform ... 57

1.3 ... SAP TM as Part of SAP S/4HANA ... 68

1.4 ... Summary ... 97

2 ... Solution Architecture and Technological Concepts ... 99

2.1 ... Technological Foundation of SAP TM ... 100

2.2 ... User Interface Technologies ... 115

2.3 ... Frameworks and Tools Used throughout SAP TM ... 127

2.4 ... Integration Technology with SAP TM ... 144

2.5 ... Summary ... 158

3 ... Master Data ... 159

3.1 ... General Master Data ... 160

3.2 ... Transportation Network ... 195

3.3 ... Resources ... 246

3.4 ... Summary ... 264

4 ... Transportation Requirements and Order Management ... 267

4.1 ... Triggering the Transportation Management Process ... 269

4.2 ... Forwarding Orders and Forwarding Quotations ... 292

4.3 ... Summary ... 340

5 ... Transportation Capacity Management ... 343

5.1 ... Capacity Management ... 344

5.2 ... Allocations ... 353

5.3 ... Business Shares ... 360

5.4 ... Freight Bookings ... 363

5.5 ... Summary ... 378

6 ... Transportation Planning ... 379

6.1 ... Documents and Decisions ... 380

6.2 ... Freight Units ... 385

6.3 ... Package Building ... 400

6.4 ... Transportation Units ... 421

6.5 ... Planning Strategies, Profiles, and Settings ... 437

6.6 ... Manual Planning ... 447

6.7 ... Automated Planning ... 534

6.8 ... Summary ... 572

7 ... Carrier Selection and Subcontracting ... 575

7.1 ... Carrier Selection ... 576

7.2 ... Freight Order Management ... 594

7.3 ... Freight Tendering ... 614

7.4 ... Summary ... 625

8 ... Transportation Execution and Monitoring ... 627

8.1 ... Transportation Execution ... 628

8.2 ... SAP Event Management ... 660

8.3 ... SAP Global Track and Trace ... 692

8.4 ... Summary ... 699

9 ... Transportation Compliance ... 701

9.1 ... SAP Global Trade Services ... 703

9.2 ... SAP S/4HANA for Product Compliance ... 716

9.3 ... External Compliance Service Providers ... 728

9.4 ... Summary ... 730

10 ... Transportation Charge Management ... 731

10.1 ... Charge Calculation Master Data and Customizing ... 733

10.2 ... Contract Determination ... 755

10.3 ... Charge Calculation Logic ... 764

10.4 ... Strategic Vendor Contract Management ... 780

10.5 ... Summary ... 795

11 ... Charge Settlement ... 797

11.1 ... Charge Settlement and Billing ... 798

11.2 ... Cost Distribution ... 814

11.3 ... Summary ... 817

12 ... Charge Calculation and Settlement for Logistics Service Providers ... 819

12.1 ... Charge Calculation Master Data ... 820

12.2 ... Charge Calculation Logic ... 831

12.3 ... Billing and Settlement ... 842

12.4 ... Settlement with SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management ... 880

12.5 ... Strategic Customer Contract Management ... 885

12.6 ... Summary ... 895

13 ... Integration with Other Components ... 897

13.1 ... Analytics ... 899

13.2 ... Integration with SAP EWM ... 921

13.3 ... SAP Transportation Resource Planning ... 961

13.4 ... SAP Yard Logistics ... 972

13.5 ... SAP Logistics Business Network ... 981

13.6 ... Blockchain in Logistics ... 986

13.7 ... SAP Customer Relationship Management ... 989

13.8 ... Summary ... 994

14 ... Implementation Best Practices ... 995

14.1 ... Large Transportation Management System Installations ... 996

14.2 ... Customer Onboarding in SAP TM Installations ... 998

14.3 ... Use of Central Control Elements in SAP TM Setup ... 999

14.4 ... Optimize the Sequence of SAP TM Configuration ... 1005

14.5 ... SAP TM Scenario Builder ... 1008

14.6 ... Moving SAP TM from the SAP Business Suite to an SAP S/4HANA System ... 1011

14.7 ... Consider SAP TM's Strengths and Limitations ... 1013

14.8 ... Enhance SAP TM via SAP Innovative Business Solutions ... 1015

14.9 ... Summary ... 1015

15 ... Summary and Outlook ... 1017

A ... Abbreviations ... 1023

B ... The Authors ... 1033

... Index ... 1035