Transportation Management with SAP TM

Designed for both consultants and logistics providers, this updated bestseller provides the information you need gain a holistic view of all your logistics processes. Learn to plan and document transportation, select carriers, create forwarding orders, and. Discover industry-tested best practices and find out how you can optimize standard SAP TM functionality, to ensure that your business is on the road to success. Up to date for SAP TM 9.2 and 9.3!

End-to-End Management Discover how SAP TM supports your transportation processes, from order management and carrier selection to charge settlement and analysis.

Implementation Best Practices Learn how to best implement SAP TM and enhance its standard functionality using expert advice.

SAP TM 9.2 and 9.3 Find out how SAP TM has changed in functionality, with improvements in load planning, fleet management, analytics, and more.

Highlights:

• Technical and solution architecture
• Master data
• Order management and compliance
• Capacity management
• Planning and optimization
• Gantt chart planning
• Execution and monitoring
• Carrier selection and subcontracting
• Charge calculation and settlement
• Strategic freight management
• Holistic quotation-to-cash/pay process
• Integration with SAP ERP, EWM, GTS, and Event Management

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.

Stefan Sauer has studied international business information technology at the Cooperative State University in Mannheim, Germany. After joining SAP in 2007, Stefan gathered experience in development and consulting teams in Germany as well as with SAP Research in Australia. With the ramp-up of SAP Transportation Management 8.0 in 2010, he accompanied the success of the software product as an SAP TM consultant, 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. Stefan supports 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. Furthermore, he is a trainer for SAP TM for both functional and technical training courses.

Jens Kappauf has been with SAP SE for more than 14 years. In his previous role as a senior business solution architect and industry solution manager, he was been responsible for the strategic direction of SAP’s third-party and contract logistics solutions, while also focusing on technical integration, deployment, and implementation. In 2015 he joined WESTERNACHER Business Management Consulting AG in Heidelberg, Germany, co-heading its global business unit for SAP EWM. With almost 20 years of SAP know-how, industry and international consulting experience, he is a hands-on expert on SAP solutions, templates, and global roll-outs, with a special focus on warehouse operations and spare parts logistics in the areas of after-market sales and service operations and supply chain planning, fulfillment, and execution. Jens holds a degree in business administration, is the author and coauthor of several logistics-related books and publications, and lives with his family near Heidelberg, Germany.

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.

Dominik Metzger is a principal consultant in the SAP Supply Chain Execution space and the managing director of Westernacher Consulting Singapore. Dominik studied business management at the Cooperative State University in Mannheim, Germany. After joining SAP SE in 2007, he conducted a traineeship working in business development for supply chain management, strategy consulting, and solution marketing in New York. Dominik joined SAP Consulting in 2010, specializing in the transportation and logistics industry. In the following years, he delivered numerous implementation projects in the SAP Supply Chain Execution space across various industries: freight forwarding, ocean liner, trucking, retail, chemicals, and contract logistics. After winning the first implementation project with SAP TM for an ocean carrier, Dominik has been working in Singapore since 2012 as a senior TM consultant. He founded the Southeast Asia subsidiary for Westernacher Consulting in Singapore in 2014. Dominik is now responsible for supporting global customer implementation projects in the transportation and logistics industry as a solution architect and driving business development activities across Asia.