This updated bestseller is your ride to a comprehensive view of SAP TM business processes and use. Learn to plan and document transportation, select carriers, and create forwarding orders. Discover industry-tested best practices and optimize standard functionality to make SAP TM do everything you need it to do. Up to date for SAP TM 9.2 and 9.3!

Navigate the changing landscape of transportation management! With this comprehensive guide, learn how to configure and use TM functionality in both SAP TM 9.6 and SAP S/4HANA 1809. Start with the TM fundamentals: solution options, architecture, and master data. Then walk step by step through key TM processes such as transportation planning, subcontracting, and charge management. Using well-tread industry best practices, optimize TM for your business! Highlights include: Order and capacity management Transportation planning Master data Carrier selection Subcontracting Execution and monitoring Charge management Settlement and calculation Integration Best practices

Managing the movement of goods from one place to another is just one small requirement of a Transportation Management (TM) software. To understand the complete process, there is so much more to consider. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the transportation processes supported by SAP TM 9.3 including functional highlights, system architecture options (including HANA), and integration aspects. Dive into planning, execution, and tracking processes and detailed configuration. Get best practices on how to best set up capacity management functionality and learn more about charge calculation and settlement. This hands-on guide is for those new to SAP TM, as well as experienced solution consultants, and includes step-by-step descriptions and screenshots. - A Comprehensive Overview of All of the Processes Enabled by SAP TM - Configuration Best Practices for All Modes of Transport - Instructions for Integrating Transportation Requirements - Tips on Integration with SAP ERP, EWM, GTS, EH&S, EM - Options for Manual, Semi-automated, and Completely Automated Planning

The implementation of a TMS solution is a highly complex and mission critical project. If executed correctly a good TMS can deliver a number of benefits to the organization in terms of optimization, greater efficiency, reduced errors and improved revenue through accurate invoicing. However a number of projects fail to realize these benefits for a host of reasons such as an incorrect product selection, over customization of the system and lack of detailed processes. The evaluation and selection of the right transportation management system is a very critical step in the successful implementation of a TMS product as well as ensuring that the organization is able to realize the benefits expected from the system. Transportation Management with SAP TM 9 is a guide for CIO/CXOs evaluating options for various transportation management solutions available in the market and helps inappropriate decision making before committing investment. A proven evaluation framework and guidance provided in the book can help decision makers with product selection and help to create a business case for management approval and design a future roadmap for the organization. The book provides a comprehensive understanding of what SAP transportation management is and is useful for teams involved in TM Implementation and roll outs to ensure preparedness. The book explains end-to-end freight life cycle processes, functional system landscape, implementation challenges and post go-live precautions required to optimize investments in SAP TM. Transportation Management with SAP TM 9 also acts as a step by step implementation guide with details of configuration required to set up a TM9 system. This book also covers the upgrade of SAP TM8 to SAP TM9 which will be useful for existing clients who are on TM 8. Nonavailability of SAP TM skilled resources is a major challenge faced by organizations and the book provides a detailed competency building plan along with skill set requirements to create a competent and trained workforce to manage-transformation.The current book available in the market on SAP TM is based on Version 6 release which does not cover air freight processes. Our book covers end-to-end air freight configuration scenarios for logistic companies.

Interested in learning the secrets of controlling and reducing transportation costs? This book will expertly guide you through Transportation Charge Management in SAP S/4HANA, highlighting the most important aspects of setting up Charge Management. Learn how to set up agreements/contracts with business partners and provide detailed rate structures. Dive into Charge Management master data, including master data objects, agreements, rate structures, rate tables, dimensions, and determinations. Explore how different types of agreements are set up and how they are linked to the master data objects, as well as key integration points. Learn how to perform strategic freight procurement/strategic freight sales in order to reach the best agreement possible for your organization. Understand how charges are calculated on the various business documents. Take a detailed look at the settings and confi guration required to accurately calculate charges. Explore practical examples, including scenarios that you might encounter in your logistics operations. With practical examples, tips, and screenshots, this book covers: - Transportation Charge Management processes - Charge Management master data - Strategic freight procurement and sales - Settings and confi guration

Transform your logistics operations with SAP S/4HANA! With this introduction, see what SAP has in store for each supply chain line of business: sales order management, manufacturing, inventory management, warehousing, and more. Discover how SAP Fiori apps and embedded analytics improve reporting, and explore the intersection between your supply chain processes and new SAP Leonardo technologies. Take your first look at SAP S/4HANA logistics, and see where it will take your business! a. Key Processes Advances in SAP S/4HANA are changing your supply chain. Explore planning and scheduling, transportation management, inventory management, manufacturing, warehousing, sourcing and procurement, plant maintenance, and more! b. The Future of Logistics Uncover what's new and improved in SAP S/4HANA for your logistics LOBs, such as centralized procurement to demand-driven MRP. See how technologies like IoT and machine learning can accelerate your core supply chain processes. c. Migration Once you see the logistics big picture, you can plan your next steps. Learn how to design your roadmap, evaluate your technical and functional conversion steps, and prepare your system for your desired migration path. 1) Sourcing and procurement 2) Inventory management 3) Warehouse management 4) Production planning 5) Manufacturing operations 6) Plant maintenance 7) Quality management 8) SAP Fiori applications 9) SAP Leonardo technologies 10) Implementation and migration 11) SAP S/4HANA 1809

SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) helps companies maximize supply chain performance and reduces the overall cost and risk of global trade by ensuring regulatory compliance, accelerating trade activity, and enabling trade compliance automation. The Practical Guide to SAP GTS Part II dives into customs management and preference processing. Explore how to leverage self-filing, using a broker model, and adopting a free trade agreement to improve ROI. The book is current to version 10.1 and explores version 11.0 and its new features including Fiori apps and UX. - Best practices for leveraging SAP GTS for trade compliance - Fundamentals of preference implementation and system set up - How self-filing, broker models and free trade agreements can improve ROI - Review of Version 11.0 with screenshots