SAP S/4HANA TM (Transportation Management) 2020 Functional

Provide an overview of sap s/4hana tm 2020, covering master data, sales/purchase integration, freight units, distance/duration tools, planning optimizer, settlement, and migration strategies.

Define and maintain a transportation management organization structure by creating organization models and party organizations, detailing purchasing, sales, and planning and execution units in SAP S/4HANA TM.

Define resource master data in SAP S/4HANA TM by configuring resource classes, means of transport, and speed and distance profiles for planning.

Learn how the transportation network master data defines locations (plant, business partner, shipping point), zones and lanes with means of transport and carriers, plus replication and deletion.

This lecture demonstrates replicating a business partner, creating locations, shipping points, zones, and a transportation lane with a carrier in SAP S/4HANA TM master data.

Explore how sales orders and purchase orders integrate with transportation management in SAP S/4HANA TM, configuring control keys and logistic integration profiles to build freight units.

Define freight unit types and freight unit building rule in SAP S/4HANA TM, trigger freight unit creation from sales orders via logistic integration profile, and configure planning and delivery windows.

Configure a freight order type in SAP S/4HANA TM by defining default rate, number assignment, carrier selection, dangerous goods, custom clearance, and planning and execution settings.

Learn how SAP S/4HANA TM determines distance and duration using geocoding, third-party GIS, and configurable strategies, with location coordinates and process control.

Explore how to define and apply incompatibilities between freight units and carriers across SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management, including weight-based constraints and scenario testing in optimization.

Learn to create and apply a selection profile in SAP S/4HANA TM, blending time related, geographical, and additional attributes to filter freight units for planning.

VSR optimizer overview explains how SAP S/4HANA TM uses multiple optimizer engines to plan shipments, rank carriers, arrange loads, and schedule routes, guided by planning profiles.

Explore how the SAP S/4HANA TM carrier selection identifies reliable, cost-efficient carriers for freight orders by triggering from freight units and planning, with background jobs, and with allocations and penalties.

Explore carrier selection in SAP S/4HANA TM, from cockpit and freight order views to one-step planning and background tendering, including carrier ranking, incompatibilities, and allocations.

Explore the freight tendering process in sap s/4hana tm, including peer-to-peer and broadcast rfqs, carrier responses, and automatic or manual award workflows.

Explore how to configure free trade agreements in SAP S/4HANA TM, define charge types and calculation sheets, and build skill-based rate tables for base rates and fuel surcharges.

Explore how to configure freight settlement in SAP S/4HANA TM (Transportation Management), implement cost distribution across freight orders, and generate settlement documents and service bills through settlement management.

Learn to create a sales order, generate a freight unit and freight order, post a settlement document, and perform cost distribution of freight costs across deliveries in sap s/4hana tm.

Explore SAP S/4HANA TM migration strategy, contrasting migration and upgrade paths, side-by-side and embedded deployments, and the data replication framework for master data migration and business partner handling.

Learn the SAP S/4HANA TM 2020 simplifications from the Esfahani 20-20 list, including side-by-side integrations, data replication, and the Eleftheria module decommissioning.