Transportation Management

SAP TM organizes the transportation of goods: it groups the requirements coming from sales and purchasing, builds loads, chooses the carrier, monitors execution, then calculates and settles the charges. In S/4HANA, it is gradually replacing LE-TRA (VT01N shipment documents).

Audience: Transportation managers, planners, sales administration and purchasing, SD / MM / EWM consultants who integrate transportation, TM consultants.
Prerequisites: Level 1: none. Levels 2 and 3: SD basics (deliveries) and MM basics (purchase orders, service entries).
Duration: 4 days (1 + 2 + 1)
28 h · day-by-day schedule

Day-by-day schedule

4 days, 28 h of training. Beginner 1 d, intermediate 2 d, advanced 1 d. Durations are calculated from the content of each chapter. Click a line to open the chapter.

BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedAssessment

Day 1Beginner

Morning · 9:00 – 12:30

Afternoon · 13:30 – 17:00

Day 2Intermediate

Morning · 9:00 – 12:30

Afternoon · 13:30 – 17:00

Day 3Intermediate

Morning · 9:00 – 12:30

Afternoon · 13:30 – 17:00

Day 4Advanced

Morning · 9:00 – 12:30

Afternoon · 13:30 – 17:00

TM curriculum

3 parts, 19 topics. Open a part, then follow the link to the chapter, the guide or the mini-process.

Level 1 · Beginner : Understanding transportation in SAP

What is TM? Delivering 60 watches to Lausanne
The SENTINEL SA delivery is ready. Who takes it, in which truck, with what else, and how much does it cost?
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Actors and transportation modes
Who does what, and by what means.
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The TM documents
Four objects to remember. Click each step.
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Planning: the transportation Tetris
Filling the trucks without exceeding their capacity, while respecting the times.
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Where do freight charges come from?
Like a taxi: a flat fee, a distance, surcharges.
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TM and LE-TRA: the old and the new
What you will still find in ECC systems.
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Level 2 · Intermediate : End-to-end transportation in practice

From order to transportation request
TM listens to the S/4HANA logistics documents.
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Freight units
Splitting a request into transportable pieces.
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Planning in the transportation cockpit
Freight units on the left, resources on the right, freight orders in the middle.
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Choosing and engaging the carrier
Automatic selection, then tendering.
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Execution and tracking
What happens once the truck has left.
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Calculating freight charges
Freight agreement, rate table, calculation sheet.
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Simulation: from transportation to the carrier's invoice
The charges become a service purchase, then a checked invoice.
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Level 3 · Advanced : Configuring TM and running a transportation project

Deployment and integration scenarios
Where TM lives, and which documents it plans on.
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The configuration keys
SPRO › Transportation Management.
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The transportation network
Without a reliable network, no reliable planning.
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Charges and settlement: the configuration
From the rate contract to the service purchase order.
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Migrating from LE-TRA to TM
LE-TRA shows what your users do today; TM does it differently.
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TM troubleshooting
The typical incidents.
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