SAP Transportation Management

Using party role codes / partner functions is a not so exotic use case, e.g. the entry for a certain function might be needed. There is something special to consider: The role codes / partner functions are actually language specific. E.g. when... Read More »

Recent supply chain disruption due to Covid has shown a significant impact on the transportation business as well. Transportation operators faced a sudden change in revenue. However, the growing pressure to mitigate the logistic challenges has been... Read More »

Dear friends of SAP TM, When you do your transportation planning in SAP Transportation Management, the available resources play a central role, obviously. Regarding resources, you can have vehicles like trucks, vessels and railcars. But besides, a... Read More »

In TM we have customers of all sizes and document structures, this includes documents with a lot of items. I mean, in the 4-5 digits space… There are some important settings affecting the UI performance in such a scenario, and this is the... Read More »

On and off the question comes up, what the Means of Transport on Freight Unit stage level means and how it can be used when creating Freight Orders. I try to answer this a bit with this posting. First of all, what field do we talk about: The Means... Read More »

We are happy to announce the availability of SAP Event Management on SAP S/4HANA (SAP S/4HANA EM). SAP S/4HANA EM is a business application to enable real-time end-to-end business process visibility and status monitoring. It provides a broad scope... Read More »

As we all know that Dependent objects (DO) in SAP TM are used for reusable parts of Business object (BO) which doesn’t exist on their own. They only exist in the context of a main business object. We can access or update the dependent object’s... Read More »

With the Carrier Collaboration Portal deprecated in S/4HANA embedded Transportation Management, we see an ardent need for a platform to collaborate between shippers and external parties. Built using SAP Business Technology Platform Portal Service... Read More »

Dear friends of SAP TM, In a former post, we already talked about the usage of prefixes and suffixes when creating locations in SAP Transportation Management. With SAP S/4HANA 2020 FPS2, we introduce another use case for adding prefixes in regards... Read More »

SAP’s strategy for Transportation Solutions in SAP S/4HANA Since the introduction of SAP S/4HANA® some of the previous modules/solutions available in SAP ECC became available through something called “Compatibility Packs”. A Compatibility... Read More »