Learn SAP S/4 HANA Transportation Management, BN4L Project44

Learn how to create and maintain a transportation management organization structure, including purchase organization and group, organizational unit function and role, and planning and execution units in TM.

Define means of transport and resource master in SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management by creating resource classes and vehicle resources with capacity, speed, and mode settings.

Create and manage locations, zones, and transportation lanes in sap s/4hana transportation management, using location types, zone hierarchies, and replication of product master data to streamline transportation planning.

Replicate master data from sales and distribution into tm by creating and validating a business partner, plant, and shipping point, then define zones, lanes, and means of transport with cost.

Explore SAP S/4HANA 1909 transportation management integration with sales orders, purchase orders, and deliveries using internal and external TM components, control keys, logistic integration profiles, and freight unit building rules.

Define freight unit type and freight unit building rule in SAP S/4HANA transportation management, covering number ranges, integration with logistic profiles, planning, and change control strategies.

Defines how to set up a freight order type in SAP S/4 HANA Transportation Management, including default freight order type, number ranges, planning and execution settings, and change control.

Learn how SAP TM determines distance and duration using geo coordinates and third-party GIS tools like PC Miller and HERE API, with strategies, geocoding, and buffering settings.

Learn to define incompatibilities between freight units and means of transport in SAP TM, demonstrated through the VSR optimization run, with condition tables and planning profile testing.

Understand selection profiles in SAP S/4HANA TM, combining time related selection attributes, geographical selection attributes, and additional selection attributes to select freight units for planning and optimization.

Discover how the SAP S/4HANA TM optimizer engines, including vehicle scheduling and routing, load planning, and carrier selection, drive both manual and automated planning through planning profiles.

Explore how to set up and run SAP S/4HANA TM planning profiles and transportation cockpit, including selection and planning profiles, optimizer options, and manual versus automatic planning.

Explore how SAP TM carrier selection triggers—from freight orders, worklists, or the transportation cockpit—and how planning and cost criteria determine the best available carrier.

Learn carrier selection options in SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management, including cockpit planning, one-step vs default planning, background jobs, manual and automatic assignment, and ranking for tendering.

Explore the freight tendering process in SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management, covering peer-to-peer and broadcast tendering, carrier selection, RFQ workflows, EDI 214 and 990 messaging, and tendering profiles.

Learn to configure freight tendering in SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management, including visibility, rejection regions, and communications, then create a peer-to-peer tendering profile for RFQ-based awards.

Set up freight agreements and charge calculation in SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management. Define charge types, rate tables, and calculation sheets, and apply scales across source and destination locations.

Configure freight settlement in SAP TM by defining settlement document types, profiles, and cost distribution to allocate charges by gross weight, then enable integration with settlement management and invoicing.

Demonstrate the freight settlement workflow in SAP S/4 HANA Transportation Management, posting settlement documents, generating a service order and a service entry sheet, and distributing costs across deliveries and invoices.

Discover SAP logistics business network (BN4L / LBN) architecture, including shipper and carrier tenants, rfq workflows, edi and xml messaging, and real-time track and trace via project 44 integration.

Explore the four types of business network: global track and trace, freight collaboration, material traceability, and intelligent insights. See how each enables real-time visibility and insights into logistics.

Explore the BN4L connectivity architecture between SAP S/4HANA TM and Albion, comparing direct server manager integration with mediated PI or CPI middleware and their interfaces.

Learn how the global track and trace business network automates real-time shipment status requests from sap s/4hana through external tracking partners, including tendering, freight collaboration, carrier responses, and invoicing.

Explore how freight contracting flows through the Business Network for Logistic and Freight Collaboration, from RFQ triggers and tendering to carrier selection, subcontracting, and API-driven updates via CPI.

Explore the freight execution visibility process in SAP Logistics Business Network, from RFQ to carrier award and freight order confirmation, using Fury app for event reporting.

Learn how carriers submit invoices and manage disputes in Albion, using EDI, Lbn connectivity, and the invoice freight documents app to resolve charge discrepancies through dispute cases and counteroffers.

Learn SAP S/4HANA TM migration strategies, including upgrade prerequisites to 9.5/9.6, side-by-side versus embedded deployments, and the data replication framework for master data and business partner replication.