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Integration between SAP Agricultural Contract Management and SAP Transportation Management on SAP S/4HANA published

On November, 29th 2019 SAP proudly published a new product to integrate SAP Agricultural Contract Management and SAP Transportation Management on S/4HANA. The product is officially called ‘SAP S/4HANA, bulk transportation extension for SAP Agricultural Contract Management’.

For customers that use or plan to use Agricultural Contract Management there are huge benefits about the bulk extension to SAP Transportation Management such as:

  • Higher degree of process automation for transportation planning processes that originate nominations
  • Reduced costs for expediting and transportation as a result of early planning of transportation activities based on nominations
  • Bidirectional visibility for trade-execution experts and transportation experts
  • Ability to leverage standard processes and innovations from SAP TM, such as planning, scheduling, collaboration, and charge management
  • Common logistical processes across multiple business units with or without SAP Agricultural Contract Management
  • Early settlement of freight costs (based on nominations) and accurate and timely posting of accruals
  • Settlement of freight costs and assignment to related trading contracts to improve profit calculation of trades

The benefits from above are mainly realized by the following integration points:

  • Integration of SAP ACM nominations to SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) application in an embedded S/4HANA environment
  • Integration of execution information from a load data capture (LDC) to documents in SAP TM
  • Distribution of freight costs to related trading contracts

 

A conceptual flowchart of the integration is shown below:

The following key aspects are most important for agricultural companies:

  • Integration of nominations for both planned and unplanned nomination items – support for all key logistical processes originating from nominations such as purchases, sales, and stock transfers of items in various scenarios, including:
    • Third-party purchases
    • Third-party sales
    • Inter- and intracompany transfers
    • Back-to-back sales
    • Multi-buy sales
    • Diversions
  • Integration of LDC with SAP TM so that all relevant execution data (loading or unloading data) is sent to execution documents in SAP TM, enabling use of actual data, such as for tracking and charge settlements:
    • In the above context, support for automated and manual matching and unmatching processes using a new freight-assignment work center
    • Support for customer returns as well, through integration of LDC
  • Assignment of freight costs to the related trading contracts – support for the distribution of costs from SAP TM to nomination items and the settlement of freight costs to the related trading contracts that are integrated into revenue-recognition processes in the SAP Agricultural Contract Management application

Delivery of the above scope through the following functionality:

    • Tight integration among nomination items, freight units, and railcar units or among freight orders, bidirectional data, and status exchange
    • Status control from nomination to SAP TM documents
    • Visibility from the nomination into SAP TM documents regarding planning, scheduling, and status
    • Visibility from documents in SAP TM into the originating nomination items
    • Full support of SAP TM documents in the document flow in SAP Agricultural Contract Management
    • Integration of actual loading data from SAP Agricultural Contract Management to execution in SAP TM
    • Automated and manual matching and unmatching of load data capture documents to execution documents in SAP TM
    • Cost distribution to nomination items in freight orders and freight settlement documents in SAP TM
    • Creation and posting of settlement documents toward trading contracts

 

For more information about this great new product please have a look at help.sap.com/acmtm

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      Author's profile photo Indraneel Mukherjee
      Indraneel Mukherjee

      Is this part of SAP basic license or advanced license

      Author's profile photo Eric Osterroth
      Eric Osterroth
      Blog Post Author

      A separate license is required for the product.

      Author's profile photo Indraneel Mukherjee
      Indraneel Mukherjee

      Hi,

      In case we are working on SAP TM 9.5 standalone system and in that case do we need to install any plug on or incur any additional licensing cost to integrate SAP TM with ACM

      Author's profile photo Eric Osterroth
      Eric Osterroth
      Blog Post Author

      Hello Indraneel,

      the new transportation bulk extension for ACM does support S/4HANA with ACM and embedded TM as of S/4HANA 1809 FP2 only.
      Please have a look at help.sap.com/acmtm for deployment options and technical details.

      Rgds,

      Eric

       

      Author's profile photo Amrinder Singh
      Amrinder Singh

      Hello Eric,

      I tried this link - help.sap.com/acmtm to go further to fetch configuration guide but after login to SAP portal the portal says "This document is not accessible". Can you please assist here like where can I find the integration of ACM with TM module?

       

       

      Author's profile photo Eric Osterroth
      Eric Osterroth
      Blog Post Author

      The link works without issue for me. Please check again.

      Author's profile photo Amrinder Singh
      Amrinder Singh

      I tried today again but no avail. Let me share my screen as screen shot for reference to understand what error I am facing.As you can see at the above screen shot.

      Author's profile photo Roberto Nanga
      Roberto Nanga

      Hello Eric,

      There are other industries like oil & gas and mining that make use of nominations and trading contracts. I think that ACM actually builds upon IS-OIL for its functionality.

      Could this extensión be used for IS-OIL?

      If not, are there plans to expand the scope of this extension for those industries?

      Regards,

      Roberto Nanga

      Author's profile photo Eric Osterroth
      Eric Osterroth
      Blog Post Author

      Hello Roberto,

      absolutely right. ACM builds on top of IS-Oil.
      At present the extension can not be used with IS-Oil only, ACM is required.

      We absolutely would want to build an extension also for other customers using IS-Oil only.
      In order to do so we would be happy to start a Co-Innovation project together with a customer.

      Rgds,
      Eric