Transportation Management with SAP TM

Plan and optimize: Improve service, maximize use, and reduce costs Manage: Process orders, schedule bookings, and tender shipments Integrate: Utilize the full potential of SAP ERP, EWM, Event Management, and GTS Based on TM 9.0 and 9.1 Moving products from point A to point B is only one piece of the transportation management puzzle. Make your transportation processes transparent, accessible, and adaptable with this guide to SAP Transportation Management functionality and configuration. Master the individual SAP TM components and their practical application so you can flexibly respond to changing regulations, traceability requirements, and tight deadlines. Get in the driver s seat with this one-stop resource on SAP TM. End-to-End Management See how the SAP TM ecosystem supports your transportation processes from order management to charge calculation to tracking and analysis. Master Data Examine the foundation for SAP TM processes: customer data, vendor data, and organizational data, as well as network- and resource-specific master data. Order Management Learn how transportation orders are created in SAP TM and bi-directionally integrated with SAP ERP. Case Studies Apply tips from outbound shipment, ocean forwarding, and air freight shipment case studies to your transportation processes. SAP TM 9.1 Preview Get updated content for SAP TM 9.0 and a sneak peek at the new functionality, UI, and analytics in SAP TM 9.1.

Dr. Bernd Lauterbach studied and received a PhD in electrical engineering. After spending several years doing Assembler, C /C++, and Occam programming for image processing, GIS, and auto routing systems, he joined SAP in 1995 at the SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany as part of the SAP ERP LE-TRA development team. From 2000 to 2007 he was the lead architect for SAP Event Management and SAP Auto ID Infrastructure, and subsequently led development of SAP Transportation Management as a program/development manager. A second focus of his work is supporting transportation projects of strategic SAP customers from shipper and LSP industries. Since 2008, Bernd has worked as a senior business solution architect in the IBU Travel & Transportation area of SAP responsible for cargo and logistics.

Dominik Mark Metzger studied business management at the Cooperative State University in Mannheim, Germany. After joining SAP AG in 2007, he gained a deep insight into SAP's processes while working in business development, consulting, and SAP Solution Marketing in New York. Dominik joined the SAP Business Transformation Services in 2010, specializing in the transportation and logistics industry as an SAP TM consultant. After helping win one of the biggest customer projects with SAP TM in Europe, he successfully delivered this demanding implementation project while driving go-to-market and business development activities. Since 2012 he has been managing the first project with SAP TM for an ocean liner in both the proposal and entire implementation as a senior enterprise consultant for SAP in Singapore. Dominik is highly specialized in the ocean liner, freight forwarding, trucking, and contract logistics industry. He offers both a very strong functional SAP background in and a deep knowledge of many end-to-end business processes. He manages complex implementation projects as a solution architect while supporting market development activities.

Stefan Sauer has studied international business information technology at the Cooperative State University in Mannheim, Germany. After joining SAP in 2007, Stefan gathered experience in development and consulting teams in Germany as well as with SAP Research in Australia. With the ramp-up of SAP Transportation Management 8.0 in 2010, he accompanied the success of the software product as an SAP TM consultant, being involved in implementation projects in retail and ocean freight industries and participating in customer engagements in other industries such as fashion, rail, air freight, and manufacturing. Stefan supports projects both from a business process perspective by creating blueprints and implementation concepts, and from a technical perspective as the link between project and custom development. Furthermore, he is a trainer for SAP TM for both functional and technical training courses.

Jens Kappauf is a senior business solution architect for the Travel and Transportation SAP AG Industry Business Unit. In this role, he is responsible for the strategic direction of SAP’s third-party and contract logistics solutions, while also focusing on technical integration, deployment, and implementation. With over 16 years of industry and international consulting experience, he is a hands-on expert on SAP solutions, templates, and global roll-outs, with a special focus on warehouse operations and spare parts logistics, in the area of after-market sales and service operations and supply chain planning, fulfillment, and execution. Jens holds a degree in business administration, is the author and coauthor of several logistics-related books and publications, and lives with his family near Heidelberg, Germany.

Dr. Jens Gottlieb received a PhD in computer science and has worked in software development at SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany since 2000. He has written three books and more than 25 scientific publications in the areas of transportation management and heuristic optimization algorithms, and has edited six books. Jens was the development architect for the vehicle scheduling and routing optimizer and the carrier selection optimizer, which are used in SAP TM, APO-TPVS and MRS. He headed development projects both in SAP TM and APO-TPVS, served as development manager for SAP TM, and has been a product owner for SAP TM responsible for transportation planning and network.