附：SAP-TM的简略介绍
Summary
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The SAP® Transportation Management application simplifies and enhances your trans –
por tation processes by providing a robust order management environment. You can
automatically route orders, collaborate with carriers, rate orders, generate documentation,
coordinate with the warehouse, ship product, and track every step.
Business Challenges
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• complexity of commercial transportation
• difficulty in managing a worldwide network of business partners and logistics service
providers (lSPs)
• The need for greater accuracy, speed, and flexibility to manage all the moving parts
Key Features
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• Service provider management – Select and evaluate logistics service providers
• Freight contract management – negotiate, award, create, and monitor freight contracts
with rates
• Tender management and volumes – Prepare and create contract tenders for mid- and
long-term contracting of transport capacity
• Transportation volume forecasting – determine midterm transport capacity based on
carriers, geography, and other factors
• Capacity and equipment tendering – Secure availability of freight space
• Freight order receipt – receive any types of requests for transportation services
• Freight subcontracting, tendering, and booking – order transportation services and
reserve freight capacity
• Routing guide – optimize planning with rules-based processes for planning, vehicle
scheduling, routing, and lSP selection
• Freight cost management – determine selling and buying costs and calculate profitability
• Event management – handle activities for track, trace, pickup, and delivery processes
• Freight cost settlement – Settle accounts, pay and bill freight costs
• Analytics – Analyze transportation-related key performance indicators and strategic
freight management data