SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management
These days, transportation plays a crucial role in logistics as it affects a lot of the expenses associated with logistics and helps ensure that any kind of cargo is delivered on time any time. It serves as the global supply chain’s structural foundation. Companies realize as a result of increased globalization that some areas of transportation-related activities need the assistance of software solutions in order to be controlled and managed effectively.
In this dynamic landscape of supply chain management, SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management (TM) stands as a pivotal solution, ensuring seamless integration with warehouse management, dynamic rerouting, swift order processing, accelerated shipment planning, automatic load optimization, and optimal resource utilization.
In our latest article, we presented the S/4HANA innovative ERP system and its benefits (link to the article). Today we want to introduce one of its modules – SAP TM. This article delves into the capabilities of SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management, highlighting its role in enhancing the efficiency of contemporary logistics and ensuring the timely availability of goods.
Transportation Management in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition offers a range of business benefits. It supports your company’s transportation planning and execution by enabling order-based transportation consolidation within the system or in conjunction with a decentralized transportation management system. By harnessing early transportation planning capabilities based on freight orders and bookings, it helps to reduce freight costs.
The system minimizes alterations to deliveries during logistics execution through late delivery creation aligned with the transportation plan, closely tied to warehouse activities and goods issue. In this edition, TM empowers comprehensive transport planning and execution, covering sales orders, sales scheduling agreements (outbound), purchase orders (inbound), or stock transport orders (intra- and inter-company).
Commencing transport planning at the order stage facilitates the early identification of consolidation opportunities, thereby optimizing freight spend. Deliveries are created based on the transportation plan, strategically synchronized with warehouse activities and goods issue, resulting in a streamlined logistics execution process with reduced chances of subsequent modifications.
Moreover, deploying S/4HANA TM within an S/4HANA ERP environment offers significant advantage: the seamless sharing of master data, eliminating the necessity for synchronization and separate maintenance of this information. Similarly, the embedded deployment of S/4HANA TM obviates the requirement to define integration between the ERP and TM for transactional data, including orders, status updates, and feeds to accounting. This efficiency is realized due to both solutions operating within the same database, streamlining data management processes.
In the latest updates, a unique advantage has been introduced, particularly appealing to companies leveraging both SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management (TM) and SAP S/4HANA Extended Warehouse Management (EWM). This newfound functionality, labeled Advanced Shipping and Receiving (ASR), offers an innovative method for seamlessly integrating EWM and TM. If you want to read more about this integration, we invite you to have a look at the SAP article.
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