SAP TM: Transportation Management

Transportation Sourcing is the area where main savings and benefits can be realized, this is served by Strategic freight Management in TM. Collect all your cross-company shipping volume and use it in digital means to get the best offers, simulate, and decide on exact contract awards.

Automated connections to your transport requirements, whether those are your outbound sales orders, outbound deliveries, inbound purchase orders or inbound deliveries, or even scheduled agreements, or inbound from your advanced IBP planning – these are all being considered as potential inputs to initiate transport planning in SAP TM.

SAP TM excels in options for how to plan and optimize your final transport load (Freight Orders) in terms of the size, weight, or in terms of characteristics of the cargo that is to be transported. Customers choose between manual planning in the Transportation Cockpit, map-based planning or relying on the engine to run automated optimization runs. Such engine is excellent tool for large-volume shipping for inbound or outbound.

Accurate and monitored execution goes hand in hand with planning, which means handing over of Freight Order (i.e. transport requirement) to carrier or LSP, getting confirmation or bid back (TM supports booking, tendering, or direct assignment), and processing all documents for shipping (bill of lading, origin documents, etc.) to each partner involved. Un-separatable part of this is also the visibility at the document level and in transit level. The option here is to connect the operation to SAP LBN for carrier connection and visibility or connect to any other transportation platform.

Freight spend management is a key value that is the drive behind the TM. Get direct invoices from your carriers and LSP and audit them against your agreements, automatically connecting to your account payable systems.

The right level of KPI, whether strategic, tactical, or operational is essential for any TM implementation. Companies can change what they measure. Setup your KPI and analytics on OTIF, capacity utilization, agreement utilization, timelines of pickups or deliveries, tradeline monitoring, claims and incidents management, etc.

concircle offers not only design, architecture, and implementation services but also business consulting in the areas of logistics and transportation. Topics such as insourcing/outsourcing transportation strategy, ROI for logistics tools, selection of software or platforms, RFI/RFP/RFQ design, business process transformation, and niche processes (short-cut, maritime, triangulation/street turns, visibility solutions design, document processing, consignment orders, VMI, etc.) are part of the offering.