SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) as a part of SAP SCE is able to show your cross location transport logistic and -based on customer orders or deliveries- handle the good traffic fast and efficient.

Strongly networked companies with high demands need, next to the warehouse logistic, perfect transport handling. With the aid of the integrated Supply Chain Execution Platform (SAP SCE) as a part of SAP SCE is able to show your cross location transport logistic and -based on customer orders or deliveries- handle the good traffic fast and efficient. Next to the simplification of transportation processes and orders, the flow of goods can be planned and the order transaction can be automated with the view of costs.

The following processes are in the center of the solution: delivery or order based planning outbound process and with release 9.1 outbound process with transportation planning in. Furthermore you have the Chance to control your costs with transport cost management.
With release 9.1, the first time you are able to integrate TM independent from ERP.

With the delivery based planning outbound process, SAP Enterprise-Resource-Planning (SAP ERP) creates a sales order and sends it to SAP TM for transportation management and to SAP EWM for warehouse planning. Order based planning outbound processes are similar with the first proprocess in relation to the delivery management process. In this case, SAP TM encouraged the outbound delivery. After creating a customer order in SAP ERP, the program sends it to SAP TM that creates order-based transportation requirements and freight units.In the variant with SAP EWM integration a delivery is created and distributed in SAP ERP. Based on this extradition requests and orders are created in SAP EWM.