Transportation management

Transportation management covers the transportation planning phase and the activities related to the carrier picking up the load and shipping the product from the warehouse to the customer's location. Transportation requirements and planning is the key step in the order to cash process as it entails the order being shipped to the customer on time. To be successful in the supply chain, it is essential to understand logistics activities and overcome any hurdles or delays.

Here are the key steps that will be covered in this and the following chapter that will help you understand the transportation requirements, planning, and execution phases in SAP TMS:

1. Integrating a sales order from SAP ECC into SAP TMS
2. Transportation requirements and transportation planning
3. Freight order processing
4. Carrier tendering process
5. Delivery/shipment proposal to SAP ECC

SAP TMS also helps you place the relevant constraints, such as cost or resource...