From the course: SAP Transportation Management Overview

Welcome and agenda - SAP ERP Tutorial

From the course: SAP Transportation Management Overview

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Welcome and agenda

“

- So welcome to the SAP TM Transportation Management overview course. So my name's Mac McLarin. I live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I am an independent SAP TM consultant who has been working with the TM product for about seven years now. Before that, I was working with SAPs older transportation functionality shipments, for those that remember. Before that, I was an SD consultant. I've been in the SAP space for a very long time and done many implementations and you can say, yeah I've been around. This is just an overview. The goal, the idea here is to just give you a basic understanding of how SAP TM works, a flavor, if you will. We're assuming that you have at least some experience with SAP screens, other modules, and that you have a feel for how transportation works, not necessarily how SAP does it, just how transportation works. So what we're going to talk about in this course is I'll first go through a basic overview of transportation management from our business perspective. I'll then introduce you to the basic architecture of TM, and then we'll start getting into the guts, what master data do we have to use in TM, freight rates and ship to parties, et cetera. We'll talk about how orders, typically sales orders are actually captured in TM, this actually initiates the request to transport something, and then the guts of TM, the planning aspect, taking those orders and doing something smart with them. That also is followed by the carrier selection and tendering or communication with that carrier that there is a load to be taken. We'll go then into what we call freight order execution and the actual execution of that transportation order. There are track and trace aspects of transportation, as you well know. Settlement is the actual financial calculation of freight rates and how the accounting entries are made, and finally, we'll talk briefly about analytics, how you need to help manage the transaction function, and then we'll just touch on a few of the advanced topics in TM, and then I'll finish the course with some observations and recommendations.

Contents