Overview
SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) offers seamless integration with SAP ERP for efficient transportation planning and execution. Here’s how integrating SAP ERP orders and deliveries with SAP TM can benefit businesses:
1. Continuous Reaction to Changes:
The integration allows businesses to react continuously to changes in orders and deliveries that occur in the SAP ERP system.
2. Collective Transportation Planning:
You can plan transportation collectively for all orders, across order types.
3. Earlier Forecasting:
Transportation planning in SAP TM can be performed based on SAP ERP orders, prior to delivery creation. This provides an early forecast of future transportation and resource demands.
4. Tendering and Subcontracting:
You can perform tendering, subcontracting, and execution in SAP TM based on SAP ERP orders prior to delivery creation.
5. Delivery Creation:
Deliveries can be proposed and created based on dates and quantities according to transportation planning results, taking into account transportation constraints such as resource availability and transportation durations.
Overall, integrating SAP ERP orders and deliveries with SAP TM streamlines transportation planning and execution, enabling businesses to save costs, optimize resources, and ensure the timely delivery of goods.
Integration
The ERP Logistics Integration component in SAP TM is seamlessly integrated with other SAP TM components, allowing for efficient transportation planning and execution.
Here are the key SAP TM components that integrate with the ERP Logistics Integration:
a) Planning:
Transportation requirements derived from SAP ERP orders and deliveries form the basis for transportation planning and execution. This integration allows businesses to plan transportation more effectively and efficiently.
b) Master Data:
Creating transportation requirements requires the necessary master data to be in place. Master Data integration ensures that all required master data is available to support transportation planning and execution.
By integrating these SAP TM components, businesses can streamline their transportation processes, minimize costs, and optimize resources. The integration enables businesses to create and execute transportation plans with greater efficiency and accuracy. Ultimately, this results in better delivery performance and increased customer satisfaction.
Features
Order Integration:
SCM Champs facilitates seamless integration between SAP ERP and SAP TM, enabling the transfer of various order types, such as sales orders, customer returns, purchase orders, stock transport orders, returns purchase orders, and returns stock transport orders. This integration ensures smooth collaboration and utilization of SAP TM’s capabilities.
Delivery Proposals:
Utilizing SAP TM, businesses can generate delivery proposals in SAP ERP based on order-based transportation requirements. This feature streamlines the process of creating deliveries and enhances overall efficiency.
Delivery Integration:
SCM Champs enables the transfer of outbound and inbound deliveries from SAP ERP to SAP TM as delivery-based transportation requirements. This integration occurs regardless of whether the delivery creation was initiated by SAP TM or not. Even if an order associated with the delivery hasn’t been sent to SAP TM, the delivery can still be transferred, ensuring comprehensive integration.
Order Scheduling:
With SCM Champs’ expertise, businesses can synchronize transportation scheduling in SAP TM while creating sales orders in SAP ERP. This feature optimizes the scheduling process and enhances overall order management.
SAP ERP Shipment Integration:
SCM Champs facilitates outbound integration of ERP shipments, enabling transportation execution in SAP ERP for freight orders or freight bookings created in SAP TM. Similarly, inbound integration of ERP shipments allows tendering in SAP TM for shipments created in SAP ERP. This integration ensures seamless coordination between systems for efficient shipment management.
SAP EWM Integration:
Through SCM Champs’ services, businesses can integrate SAP TM with SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) via SAP ERP. This integration streamlines transportation planning in SAP TM with delivery and shipment processing in SAP ERP, as well as warehouse planning and execution in SAP EWM. The unified system ensures effective coordination across the supply chain.
Dangerous Goods:
SCM Champs and SAP TM prioritize safety and compliance during transportation. If a product in order or delivery is classified as dangerous goods, SAP TM takes this information into account, ensuring the safe and compliant transportation of such products.
ERP-TM Communication:
Efficient communication between SAP TM and SAP ERP is facilitated by SCM Champs. Order and delivery data can be seamlessly transferred using enterprise services. This communication can be established through SAP NetWeaver Process Integration or point-to-point communication via Web Services Reliable Messaging, ensuring smooth data exchange between the two systems.