TM 9.

0 Solution Manager Content

Dr. Christian Knirsch, Christoph Eichin / Product Unit Transportation & Logistics
December 2012 Public
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Introduction
Purpose of this Presentation
SAP TM defines different standard processes, process steps, and scenarios that are used in typical
business cases in transportation management.

Solution Manager delivers processes [] as well as scenarios with the main information how to
configure the software to implement the processes respectively scenarios. (Essential
Content Guidelines, p.1)

Solution Manager Content enables consultants and customers to implement end-to-end

configuration examples, i.e. scenarios.

In this presenation we will show you what we delivered

with the latest Support Package (SP35, RtC: Dec 04,
2012) and how you can retrieve the respective
documents.

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SAP Transportation Management Scenarios
Predefined Transportation Scenarios with SAP TM 9.0
Scenarios include
predefined processes and configuration data
integrated end-to-end transportation scenarios

Scenarios Covered in SAP TM 9.0

Domestic Inbound Transportation
International Inbound Logistics
Outsourced Transportation
Domestic Outbound Freight Management
International Outbound Transportation
LCL Ocean Freight
Air Freight

Scenario Deliverables
Scenario Description
Scenario Configuration Guide
Test Case

Customer / Partner Benefits

Reduced implementation time, effort, and costs
More efficient, lower operations costs

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Domestic Inbound Transportation
Scenario Overview
Processing of inbound shipment for goods purchased from domestic suppliers the shippers
transportation planning and the execution through the logistics service provider are integrated
Vendor 1 Vendor 1
(Plant Hamm, DE) (Plant Lippstadt, DE)

Consignee 1
(Plant Dingolfing, DE)

Multi-pickup
scenario Main carriage with multi-drop delivery (Variant 1)

Vendor 2
(Plant
Dortmund,DE)
Vendor 1
(Plant Ldenscheid, DE)

Direct main carriage with multi-drop delivery (Variant 2) Consignee 1

(Plant Munich, DE)
Vendor 2
(Sindelfingen, DE)

Overland shipment in a full truck load scenario with multiple pickups at different vendors Inbound delivery
and multi-drop delivery to different consignee plants (Variant 1)

Overland shipment on a truck from supplier to consignee with multi-drop to plants (Variant 2) Inbound delivery

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Domestic Inbound Transportation
Scenario and Process Details

Purchasing Transportation Manager Dispatcher Warehouse Carrier Settlement

Agent Manager Specialist

Managing Managing Planning Freight Executing and Inbound Settling Freight

Purchase Orders Transportation
Requirements
Creating purchase Creating order-based
orders in SAP ERP transportation
Select vendors via requirements in SAP
purchasing contracts TM
Note: Suppliers may differ Automatically created by the
from vendors system based on the
purchase orders
Creating freight units
Automatically created by the
system according to
freight unit building rules
Creating delivery-based
transportation
requirements
Automatically created by the
system based on
inbound delivery
and Selecting Monitoring Processing Orders
Carriers Freight
Automatic planning Reporting event Processing goods Calculating transportation
Optimizer planning messages in SAP receipt charges
(Multi-pick, multi-drop EM Posting to stock Calculating charges according to
scheduling & routing) Loading/unloading freight Sending proof of delivery freight agreements
Creating freight orders order and freight units (POD) to vendor Applying haulage charges
Automatic carrier selection Confirming departure and Triggering SAP TM update depending on the weight of
and assignment based arrival for transportation the goods and the distance
on transportation lanes request
Processing freight
Sending the documents settlement documents
to the carrier Creating and transferring freight
settlement documents to
SAP ERP
Verifying the carrier invoice in
SAP ERP
Performing evaluated receipt
settlement (ERS)

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International Inbound Logistics
Scenario Overview

Managing both international and intermodal shipments with goods purchased from
overseas vendors with integrated purchase order, transportation, and invoice management
Vendor 1
(Mainland China)

Consignee
Port of Port of (Dresden,
Loading Destination Germany)
(Shanghai, China) (Hamburg, Germany)

Main Carriage On-carriage

Pre-carriage

Vendor 2
(Mainland China)

Packing the Pre-Carriage: Main Carriage: On-carriage: Inbound Delivery:

purchased Transporting the goods Transporting the goods on a Transporting the goods on a Delivering the goods
material in by truck from vendors scheduled vessel from China to scheduled train from Hamburg to the consignee in
containers to port-of-loading Germany to Ludwigshafen Dresden
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International Inbound Logistics
Scenario and Process Details
Purchasing
Agent
Managing
Purchase Orders
Creating and releasing
purchase orders in
SAP ERP
SAP TM automatically
creates transportation
requests and freight
units
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Booking Specialist
Booking and
Planning
Main Carriage
Manual and/or automatic
planning
Consolidating containers
Checking dangerous goods
Planning at stage level with
scheduling and routing
Selecting ocean carriers via pre-
booked transportation
allocations
Confirming ocean carrier
booking
Sending shipping instruction
Transportation
Planner
Planning Pre- and
On-Carriage
Planning pre- and on-
carriage
Considering port delivery and
pick-up date/time constraints
Creating freight orders
Notifying the vendors
Dispatcher
Dispatching and
Monitoring Inbound
Transportation
Tracking transportation
events in SAP EM
Processing events from pre-, main
and on-carriage
Updating inbound delivery, freight
unit, booking order, delivery
for goods receipt
Printing house bill of lading
Carrier Settlement
Specialist
Settling Freight
Orders
Calculating transportation
charges
Calculating charges including
ocean-specific rates,
dangerous goods surcharges,
etc. according to freight
agreements
Processing freight
settlement documents
Creating and transferring freight
settlement documents to SAP
ERP
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Domestic Outbound Transportation
Scenario Overview

Managing the transport of domestic outbound freight including multiple variants of

VSR optimization, carrier selection, tendering, and dispatching

Customer 1
(Sutherlands, TX)
Customer 2
Shipper Plant (Arlington, TX)
(Chicago,USA)

Customer 13
(Miami, FL)

Customer 19
(Knoxville, TN)

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Domestic Outbound Transportation
Scenario and Process Details
Customer Service
Agent
Managing Sales
Orders
Creating sales orders in
SAP ERP
Creating order-based
transportation requests
Creating deliveries in SAP
ERP
These are automatically
transferred to SAP TM and
result in a delivery-based
transportation requests
Checking order
requirements
SAP TM automatically
creates freight units
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Transportation Manager
Planning Freight
& Selecting Carrier
Manual and/or automatic
planning
Optimizing multiple
transportation options:
truckload, less-than-
truckload, intermodal, and
multi-stop scenarios
Analyzing what-if scenarios with
different transportation
modes and carriers
SAP TM automatically selects
the resources and the carrier
based on cost, priority
customer requirements, and
the delivery date
Tendering
Freight
Tendering freight orders
Tendering freight orders to
selected carriers
Updating freight orders and
carrier selection allocations
SAP ERP automatically
creates outbound
delivery
Dispatcher Carrier Settlement
Specialist
Executing and Settling Freight
Monitoring Freight Orders
Sending freight order to Calculating transportation
carrier and loading it into charges and distributing
the system costs
Calculating charges according to
Creating and printing the
weight, distance rates,
master bill and bill of
surcharges as defined in the
lading
freight agreements
Tracking transportation
Processing freight
events in SAP EM and
settlement document
handling exceptions
Creating freight settlement
Enabling web interface-based
document in SAP TM and
event notification
transferring it to SAP ERP
The system updates the events
where it results in a purchase
automatically
order
Creating service entry sheet
(SES)
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International Outbound Transportation
Scenario Overview
Transporting full containers intermodally (NVOCC*) - from forwarding order processing over
ocean carrier booking, freight planning, execution and tracking to order settlement
Shipper
(Newark, USA)
Freight Forwarder Port of Destination
Warehouse (Rotterdam, Holland)
(Newark, USA)
Consignee
(Dsseldorf,Germany)
Port of Loading Main Carriage
(Newark, USA)

Drop-off
Carriage Final Delivery

Packing material at the Drop-off Main Carriage: Final delivery: Delivering the
shippers location in Carriage: Transporting the goods on an ocean liner using pre- Transporting the goods goods to
three containers (20 ft. Transporting booked freight capacity consignee (with
standard dry containers) from port-of-destination to proof of delivery)
the goods to
and delivering the the consignee by truck
the port-of-
containers to the freight
forwarders warehouse loading by
*Non-vessel operating common carrier
truck
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 International Outbound Transportation
Scenario and Process Details
Customer Service Booking Specialist
Agent
Managing Managing Freight
Forwarding Bookings
Orders
Creating forwarding order Creating ocean freight
pre-booking and
The system automatically sending it to the
creates freight units carrier
Receiving the booking
confirmation from the
ocean carrier
Sending the confirmed
booking to the carrier
Sending the booking order to
the carrier
Calculating ocean freight
charges
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Transportation Dispatcher Carrier Settlement Customer Settlement
Planner Specialist Specialist
Planning Freight Executing and Settling Freight Settling
and Selecting Monitoring Orders Forwarding
Carrier Freight Orders
Creating freight order Monitoring events Creating freight Recalculating charges
for main carriage and Executing and monitoring settlement document
pickup Creating forwarding
transportation events for and transferring it to
settlement document
Printing the house bill of pickup, departure, SAP ERP
and transferring it to
lading and sending onboard, arrival, and Posting accruals for
SAP ERP
them to the shipping proof of delivery in pre- supplier, invoice
carriage, main carriage, verification, processing, Creating customer
line and the fixed
and on-carriage in SAP and payment invoices for the
trucking carriers for
EM carriers in SAP ERP
pickup and delivery Self-billing
Handling exceptions
Creating freight order
and calculating
charges for drop-off
and final delivery
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Outsourced Transportation
Scenario Overview

Managing outsourced transportation processes - with shipper transportation

planning, 3rd party shipment execution, and event monitoring

Shipper Plant
(Chicago,USA)

Carriage
Customer
(Bellevue, USA)

Packing of sold A third party carrier transports the goods in a full truck load scenario to the customers location Delivering the
material in goods to the
boxes customer

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Outsourced Transportation
Scenario and Process Details

Customer Service Transportation Manager Dispatcher Carrier Settlement

Agent Specialist

Planning Freight Executing and

Managing Tendering Settling Freight
and Selecting Monitoring
Sales Orders Freight Orders
Carrier Freight

Creating and releasing Performing automatic Tendering freight Printing documents Calculating transportation
sales orders in SAP planning and Performing peer-to-peer charges
Creating transportation
ERP reviewing planning and broadcast tendering according to freight agreements
milestone in SAP EM
Including driver notes output SAP TM sends email-based based on the Creating freight settlement
requests for quotation transportation order
Creating order-based Checking the carrier document and
(RFQ)
transportation ranking and Monitoring cargo in transferring it to SAP
Evaluating Responses
requests in SAP TM assigning the carrier transit ERP
Selecting the carrier based Posting accruals for supplier
Updating sales order and Handling exceptions in invoice verification,
on costs
reviewing OTR and SAP EM processing and payment
planning output Triggering delivery
creation in SAP ERP
Restarting tendering

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LCL Ocean Freight
Scenario Overview

Managing international ocean freight shipments via forwarding houses

including import and export handling and container consolidation
Shipper 1 Consignee 1
(Chiyoda-Ku, Japan) (Brawley, US)

Export Station CFS CFS Import Station

(Tokyo, JP) (Yokohama, JP) (Los Angeles, US) (San Diego, US)

Pickup Pre-carriage Main Carriage On-carriage Delivery

Shipper 2 Consignee 2
(Ota-Ku, Japan) (Sedona, US)

Picking up goods Transporting goods Shipping consolidated containers from Transporting deconsolidated Delivering goods to
from the shipper from export station Yokohama to Los Angeles via carriers goods from CFS to import consignee
on an LTL basis to CFS on an FTL warehouses at port of loading and port station on an FTL basis
basis of discharge

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 LCL Ocean Freight
Scenario and Process Details

Customer Service Booking Specialist Transportation Dispatcher Carrier Settlement Customer Settlement
Agent Planner Specialist Specialist

Forwarding
Managing Managing Freight Planning Executing and Settling Freight Settling
Forwarding
Forwarding
Order Bookings Freight Monitoring Orders Forwarding
Order
Processing
Orders Transportation Orders
Settlement
Creating forwarding Creating ocean freight Creating freight orders Monitoring and Creating freight Creating forwarding
orders booking and sending for pick-up, pre- executing settlement document settlement document
it to the carrier carriage and drayage transportation and transferring it to and transferring it to
Selecting schedules with SAP ERP SAP ERP
Receiving confirmation Printing the documents events for pickup,
exact sailing date
from the carrier and for customs on the onboard, departure, Posting accruals for
Creating customer
The system automatically updating the booking export side arrival, and proof of supplier, invoice
verification, processing,
invoice for the
creates freight units delivery in SAP EM
Sending the confirmed Planning stages and payment shipper in SAP ERP
Sending the forwarding booking to the carrier Planning pick-up manually Creating the import
order confirmation to Planning pre-carriage and documents Self-billing
the shipper Printing the house bill of drayage to airport using Creating credit memo and
lading schedules sending it to
transportation suppliers
Calculating charges for
pick-up, pre-carriage,
drayage, and main All these actions describe the process on the export side.
stage
The process on the import side is almost identical.

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Air Freight
Scenario Overview

Managing international air freight shipments via forwarding houses

including import and export handling with intra- and intercompany settlement
Shipper 1 Consignee 1
(Chiyoda-Ku, Japan) (Brawley, US)

Export Station Gateway Gateway Import Station

(Tokyo, JP) (Narita, JP) (Los Angeles, US) (San Diego, US)

Pickup Pre-carriage Main Carriage On-carriage Delivery

Shipper 2 Consignee 2
(Ota-Ku, Japan) (Sedona, US)

Picking up goods Transporting goods Shipping loose goods from Narita to Los Transporting deconsolidated Delivering goods to
from the shipper from export station Angeles via carriers warehouses at goods from gateway to consignee
on an LTL basis to gateway on an airport of loading and airport of import station on an FTL
FTL basis discharge basis

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 Air Freight
Scenario and Process Details

Customer Service Booking Specialist Transportation Dispatcher Carrier Settlement Customer Settlement
Agent Planner Specialist Specialist

Forwarding
Managing Managing Freight Planning Executing and Settling
Forwarding
Forwarding
Order Monitoring Settling Freight Forwarding
Order
Bookings Freight
Processing
Orders Transportation Orders Orders
Settlement
Creating forwarding Creating air freight pre- Creating freight orders Monitoring Creating freight Creating forwarding
orders from template booking and sending for all stages transportation settlement settlement document
it to the carrier execution events for documents for all
The system automatically Printing the documents
Receiving the for customs on the pickup, onboard, stages (including
creates freight units main stage)
confirmation from the export side departure, arrival,
Sending the forwarding ocean carrier and proof of delivery
Planning stages Creating internal
order confirmation to Sending the booking order to settlement
Planning pick-up manually Creating the import
the shipper the carrier documents
Planning pre-carriage and documents
Printing and sending the drayage to airport using
house bill of lading schedules

Calculating charges for

pick-up, pre-carriage,
drayage, and main
stage All these actions describe the process on the export side.
The process on the import side is almost identical.

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Air Freight Online Demo

TM 9 0 Air Freight Scenario Export

External link:
http://demo.tdc.sap.com/SpeedDemo/142
9920a3b30afbd
Expiration Date: 31.07.2013

TM 9 0 Air Freight Scenario

Import
External link:
http://demo.tdc.sap.com/SpeedD
emo/5c948c45901a269e
Expiration Date: 31.07.2013

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Summary Shipper Scenarios

Travel & Logistics Consumer Consumer

Chemical Automotive
Services Products Products
Shipper Shipper Shipper Shipper Shipper

Main Features: Main Features: Main Features: Main Features: Main Features:
Order Integration Forwarding Order Integration Order Integration Order
(Purchase Order) Order Mgmt (Purchase Order) (Sales Order) Integration
Usage of EM-Integration Creation of Carrier Selection (Sales Order)
Dangerous Invoice inbound delivery & Tendering Automatic and
Goods integration in ERP Cost Distribution manual
Container (freight EM-Integration EM-Integration planning
consolidation settlement) Invoice Carrer selection
Automatic and Integration and different
manual planning Tendering
Invoice options
integration Invoice
Integration

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Summary LSP Scenarios
Travel & Logistics Services
Logistics Service Provider
Main Features:
Forwarding Order Mgmt
Booking & Freight Order Mgmt
Schedules
Default Route
Internal Settlement (inter- and
intracompany)
Import/Export
Container Consolidation
Usage of Inco-Term FOB
(Free on Board)
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Travel & Logistics Services
Logistics Service Provider
Main Features:
Forwarding Order Mgmt
Booking & Freight Order Mgmt
Schedules
Transportation Proposal
Internal Settlement (Inter- and
Intracompany)
Import/Export
Gateway Consolidation
Usage of Inco-Term
ExWorks
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Business Process Repository
How to get there: https://implementationcontent.sap.com/bpr

Business processes Scenarios

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Business Process Repository
Business Processes, Process Steps, and Scenarios in SAP TM 9.0

Business Processes Process Steps Scenarios

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Business Process Repository
Scenarios in SAP TM 9.0
Example: LCL Air Freight
Scenario
Scenario Description
Configuration Guide

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Agenda

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Document Types

1. Scenario Descriptions
general description of the business case including an overview of the processes used

2. Process Descriptions
short description of the processes including the individual process steps

3. Integration Guides
step-by-step description how to integrate SAP TM with other SAP applications

4. Scenario Configuration Guides

step-by-step description how to configure your system for the given scenario

5. Test Case Descriptions

description of an actual example of the scenario including detailled example data

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Poll

1. Did you already know that Solution Manager Content documentation exists?

2. Did you know where to find it in the system?

3. Have you ever used it (e.g. in a demo or during an implementation project)?

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Demo

This Demo is also available offline:

How to setup a Solution Manager Implementation Project

External link:
http://demo.tdc.sap.com/SpeedDemo/93219df04b6c4893
Expiration Date: 31.07.2013

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Q&A

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Thank you for your attention!

Contact information:

Christoph Eichin Dr. Christian Knirsch

TM Program Office SolManCont Coordinator in SAP TM
christoph.eichin@sap.com christian.knirsch@sap.com