SAP Transportation Management with TM 646pages software manual

Transportation Management with SAP TM This book teaches you what SAP Transportation Management (TM) is, what it can do, and how to implement and configure it into your systems. You’ll learn how to use SAP TM to design well-organized and energy-efficient transport logistics processes and link them to your business processes. Throughout the book, you’ll find practical information on all business processes from requests, orders, and dispatching, to billing and settlement of transportation services.

Using implementation and business process case studies, you’ll learn about the functionality and configuration processes for SAP TM. You’ll explore important topics such as integration with SAP Event Management, and the integration of SOA between industries and logistics service providers. You’ll also find details on the Post Processing Framework and the Shipment Order, Freight Order, and Tour Builder (SFTB), as well as basic customizing settings. With this practical, complete guide, you’ll understand how to implement and use SAP TM in your daily business processes.

The book is based on SAP TM 6.0 but also discusses the new developments for order management in Release 7.0.

Highlights
- Overview of SAP TM 6.0
- Organizational Structure and General Master Data
- Logistical Master Data
- Order Management
- Planning and Optimizing
- Subcontracting
- Calculating and Settling the Transportation Charges
- Analytics
- SAP Event Management
- Process Handling

About the Author(s)
Bernd Lauterbach, Rüdiger Fritz, Jens Gottlieb, Bernd Mosbrucker, and Till Dengel work at SAP and assume different roles within the development process of SAP TM. In this book, their experience and knowledge as software architects, developers, and product managers is combined in one definitive resource.