Transportation Management With SAP S/4HANA (SAP TM) (4th Edition) (SAP PRESS). This item is unavailable.Transportation Management With SAP S/4HANA (SAP TM) (4th Edition) (SAP PRESS)

The definitive book on TM is back! See how transportation management fits into your SAP S/4HANA landscape and find out what’s new for basic and advanced TM. Walk through master data to get your transportation network up and running. Then follow step-by-step instructions to set up and use embedded TM functionality in SAP S/4HANA for transportation planning, freight order management, transportation execution, charge management, and more. Round out your implementation with detailed integration scenarios, migration tips, and best practices.

• Implement basic and advanced TM in SAP S/4HANA
• Master transportation planning, freight order management, carrier selection, and more
• Calculate and settle charges with LSPs and customers

ConfigurationSet up master data for TM in SAP S/4HANA. Configure general master data such as business partners and materials, manage equipment types and resources, and get your transportation network up and running.

Core Processes
Follow step-by-step instructions to transport your goods. Perform manual and automated planning, manage orders and capacities, execute and monitor your transports, calculate and settle charges, and more.

Integration
Create a seamless transportation landscape. Connect to key solutions such as SAP Business Network for Logistics and SAP Global Trade Services. Explore the latest integration scenarios, including extended warehouse management (EWM) and advanced shipping and receiving.

• Basic and advanced TM
• Master data
• Transportation planning
• Freight order management
• Subcontracting
• Execution and monitoring
• Transportation compliance
• Charge management
• Calculation and settlement
• Logistics service providers (LSPs)
• Integration
• Best practices

Dr. Bernd Lauterbach is chief solution architect for transportation management at Westernacher Consulting in Heidelberg. Until 2019, Bernd worked for SAP SE for 25 years. He gained 13 years of experience, both as a development manager for SAP TM and as a development architect for SAP Event Management, the Auto-ID infrastructure, and SAP ERP Logistics Execution (LE-TRA). Subsequently, Bernd was responsible worldwide as chief solution architect for the logistics industry at SAP IBU Travel & Transportation – Cargo & Logistics. An additional focus of Bernd’s work is supporting many projects for Westernacher customers (logistics service providers [LSPs] and shippers), where he brings together LSP or shipper needs and SAP solution competence in terms of customer requirements, business processes, target architectures, and software capabilities.

Bernd studied and received a PhD in electrical engineering from University of Bremen, Germany. Before working with SAP, he spent several years in the areas of satellite electronics, parallel programming for image processing, assembler programming, geographic information systems (GIS), and auto-routing systems.

Dr. Jens Gottlieb has worked in supply chain software development at SAP SE in Walldorf, Germany, since 2000. He is chief product expert in the TM standard development unit. As the product owner responsible for transportation planning and the transportation network, Jens leads a development team. He has worked as a developer, development architect, and development manager, and led internal development projects as well as a standard-related custom development project for a TM customer in the beverage industry.

Jens received a PhD in computer science, has written six books and more than 25 scientific publications in the areas of transportation management and heuristic optimization algorithms, and edited six books.

Meike Helwig leads the Center of Expertise for transportation management (TM) at SAP SE in St. Leon-Rot. She is responsible for managing and delivering services for the premium customers of SAP SE in the EMEA region. Together with her team, she proactively supports customers during the whole lifecycle of a TM system with technical and advisory services. Furthermore, her team is responsible for solving critical situations and escalations in customer projects in the area of TM.

More than 10 years ago, Meike Helwig started her dual studies of business information systems at SAP and gained experience in consulting projects, managing critical engagements, and as a trainer for TM for functional and technical training courses. In the last few years, her focus has been on the enablement of new TM colleagues and building an expert team.

Dr. Christopher Sürie has worked for more than 18 years as a chief consultant in supply chain optimization and transportation management at SAP Deutschland SE & Co KG in Walldorf, Germany. In this position, he has been involved in numerous international customer projects, implementing both SAP APO and SAP TM and focusing on their planning capabilities and optimization engines in production and transportation. He worked as a solution architect in several SAP TM projects and taught numerous SAP TM customer trainings.

Before joining SAP, he worked in the department of production and supply chain management at Darmstadt University of Technology and completed his prize-winning PhD thesis in the area of production planning for process industries.

Ulrich Benz is an SAP supply chain management specialist with a focus on transportation management. As a consultant, he has managed and supported multinational IT transformation projects covering different industries over the past 11 years.