Practical Guide to SAP Transportation Management (TM)

Managing the movement of goods from one place to another is just one small requirement of a Transportation Management (TM) software. To understand the complete process, there is so much more to consider. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the transportation processes supported by SAP TM 9.2 including functional highlights, system architecture options (including HANA), and integration aspects. Dive into planning, execution, and tracking processes and detailed configuration. Get best practices on how to best set up capacity management functionality and learn more about charge calculation and settlement. This hands-on guide is for those new to SAP TM, as well as experienced solution consultants, and includes step-by-step descriptions and screenshots. - A Comprehensive Overview of All of the Processes Enabled by SAP TM - Configuration Best Practices for All Modes of Transport - Tips on Seamless Integration with SAP ERP, GTS, EH&S, and EM - Options for Manual, Semi-automated, and Completely Automated Planning Tobias Götz has a degree in industrial engineering from KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). After working in management consulting early in his career, Tobias joined SAP in 2001 and was responsible for the first implementations of the transport management solution TP/VS in SAP APO. Tobias held a number of roles at SAP and was responsible for field enablement and business development in the SAP logistics and manufacturing portfolio, including RFID and Event Management. He has been working as a business transformation consultant since 2009, managing SAP TM implementations. Since June 2015 Tobias has been a partner at KPS consulting. Tobias has published multiple books in the SAP Transportation Management field and is an associate professor at the Cooperative State University of Mannheim, where he lectures on SAP's transportation managementsolution and SCM.