Basic Shipping

Question 1

SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain for transportation management (SAP TM)

Answer 1

supports you in all activities connected with the physical transportation of goods from one location to another

You can use SAP TM to perform the following activities, for example: Create transportation requirements from your ERP documents (sales orders, purchase orders); Plan the transportation and select carriers; Tender transportation services; Dispatch and monitor the transportation; Calculate the transportation charges for both the ordering party and the supplier side; Consider foreign trade and dangerous goods regulations.

Question 2

Order management

Answer 2

A typical transportation process starts with “Order Management”.

Order management is the process of creating a transportation requirement.

Transportation requirements can be sales orders, purchase orders, deliveries, and so on.

Question 3

Logistics Execution (LE)

Answer 3

The shipping process starting with the purchase order, and finishing with the billing to the customer

Used in SAP ECC

Question 4

LE-TRA

Answer 4

Software component that provided transportation-related content in SAP ECC

part of the compatibility scope, meaning its code line is kept within SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management

The functionality offered from this component is called basic shipping.

Question 5

Transportation Management

Answer 5

Offers much more comprehensive and sophisticated functionality in the domain of transportation.
Use of its advanced functions require an additional license

Question 6

Basic shipping functional scope

Answer 6

Main parts of the transportation network (zones, lanes, etc)
Dangerous goods management
Delivery based planning
Manual carrier selection, and manual tendering
Output management
Transportation exécution
Freight agreement
Basic charge calculation and freight settlement
Analytics in BW

Question 7

Advanced shipping

Answer 7

Shipping and freight-forwarding industries
Holistic end-to-end transportation management
Early planning based on orders
Plan combined inbound and outbound deliveries/orders
Optimized transportation planning
Peer-to-peer/broadcast tendering
Advanced charge calculation and freight settlement
Dispute management
Support real-time, data driven decision making with CDS based analytics
Strategic freight management

Question 8

Transportation Overview

Answer 8

Order Management
Transportation planning
Transportation execution
Freight costing and settlement
Analytics and reporting