SAPTM 主要功能

SAP TM covers the complete transportation process from order management, through freight planning and tendering, freight execution and monitoring, to freight settlement.

Additionally, SAP TM is supplemented by features from analytics and reporting, event management, import/export, dangerous goods and compliance, and output management.

 

Master data

• Locations
• Products
• Resources
• Transportation Zones
• Transportation Lanes
• Planning profiles
• Compatibility/incompatibility rules
• Dangerous goods

Transportation Planning

• Transportation cockpit for visibility
• Planning and optimization
• Carrier selection
• Order tendering

Transportation execution

• Integration with EM for alerts and Transportation Tracking
• Generation and delivery documents
• Generation of shipping documents in SAP ERP or via interfaces with other systems
• Integration with dangerous goods management

Freight settlement

• ability to define transportation charges
• definition of freight or forwarding agreement
• generation of settlement documents
• integration of settlement documents to ECC
• integration of customer billing

SAP TM offers out-of-box integration from SAP ERP for

• sales orders
• purchase orders
• stock transfer orders
• deliveries

 You can track the following expected events for freight orders and freight bookings in SAP Event Management:

• Loading Begin
• Loading End
• Proof of Pick-up
• Departure
• Clear Customs
• Arrival at Destination
• Unloading Begin
• Unloading End
• Proof of Delivery

Typical scenario that are also covered in SAP TM

• Domestics Inbound Transportation
• International Inbound Transportation
• Domestic Outbound Transportation
• International Outbound Transportation
• Outsourced Transportation

Typical nine standard processes:

• managing transportation requirements---this could include both outbound and inbound
• managing forwarding orders---internal status management within TM
• managing freight & bookings---ocean carrier booking for international shipments
• planning freight & selecting carriers---delivery planning and carrier selection
• tendering freight--contracting with freight carrier
• executing & monitoring freight---executing shipment and ensuring delivery
• settling freight orders---managing supplier freight invoices
• settling forwarding orders---managing customer freight invoices
• compliance---adherence to international trade and compliance in logistics

Five most common methods for which TM plans outbound transportation

• Truck load shipments
• intermodal shipments
• direct shipments
• pool shipments
• multi-stop shipments