Transportation Management with SAP: Embedded and Standalone TM

Navigate the changing landscape of transportation management! With this comprehensive guide, learn how to configure and use TM functionality in both SAP TM 9.6 and SAP S/4HANA 1809. Start with the TM fundamentals: solution options, architecture, and master data. Then walk step by step through key TM processes such as transportation planning, subcontracting, and charge management. Using well-tread industry best practices, optimize TM for your business!

Dr. Bernd Lauterbach studied and received a PhD in electrical engineering. After spending several years doing Assembler, C /C++, and Occam programming for image processing, GIS, and auto routing systems, he joined SAP in 1995 at the SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany as part of the SAP ERP LE-TRA development team. From 2000 to 2007 he was the lead architect for SAP Event Management and SAP Auto ID Infrastructure, and subsequently led development of SAP Transportation Management as a program/development manager. A second focus of his work is supporting transportation projects of strategic SAP customers from shipper and LSP industries. Since 2008, Bernd has worked as a senior business solution architect in the IBU Travel & Transportation area of SAP responsible for cargo and logistics.<P>
Stefan Sauer works in product and solution management for SAP as a global business developer and industry solution manager for the transportation industry. He is also a trainer for SAP TM for both functional and technical training courses, and he studied international business information technology at the Cooperative State University in Mannheim, Germany. He joined SAP in 2007, and gained experience as a part of development and consulting teams in Germany and with SAP Research in Australia. Beginning with the ramp-up of SAP Transportation Management 8.0 in 2010, Stefan accompanied the software product as an SAP TM consultant for 6 years, being involved in implementation projects in retail and ocean freight industries and participating in customer engagements in other industries such as fashion, rail, air freight, and manufacturing. He has supported projects both from a business process perspective by creating blueprints and implementation concepts, and from a technical perspective as the link between project and custom development.<P>
Dr. Jens Gottlieb received a PhD in computer science and has worked in software development at SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany since 2000. He has written three books and more than 25 scientific publications in the areas of transportation management and heuristic optimization algorithms, and has edited six books. Jens was the development architect for the vehicle scheduling and routing optimizer and the carrier selection optimizer, which are used in SAP TM, APO-TPVS and MRS. He headed development projects both in SAP TM and APO-TPVS, served as development manager for SAP TM, and has been a product owner for SAP TM responsible for transportation planning and network.<P>
Dr. Christopher Sürie has worked for more than ten years as an expert consultant in supply chain optimization and transportation management at SAP Deutschland AG & Co KG in Walldorf, Germany. In this position he has been involved in numerous international customer projects, implementing both SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer and SAP Transportation Management and focusing on their planning capabilities and optimization engines in production and transportation. He worked as a solution architect in several TM projects and taught numerous TM customer trainings. Prior to joining SAP he worked in the department of production and supply chain management at Darmstadt University of Technology and completed his PhD thesis in the area of production planning for process industries, which was awarded several prizes.<P>
Ulrich Benz is an SAP supply chain management specialist with a focus on SAP Transportation Management. He has been managing and advising projects in this area covering different industries for the past 11 years. In his current role as solution advisor, he supports customers transitions to SAP S/4HANA.