SAP TM Course Syllabus
Overview of Transportation Management
Transportation Management from a
management perspective
1.1: Understanding Transportation
Management.
1.2: Shipper, Freight Forwarder and LSP.
1.3: LTL/FTL/LCL/FCL Scenario’s in Logistics
Industry.
1.4: Transportation Management System VS
SAP TMS
2: SAP Transportation Management
Architecture
An overview of the technical architecture of
SAP TM and how integration is done.
2.1: Standalone SAP TM
2.2: Integrated SAP TM (SAP TM- SAP ERP)
2.3: Transportation Management E2E Cycle.
3. SAP Transportation Management Master
Data.
Transportation specific Master Data. Master
Data of SAP ERP and SAP TM.
CIF integration used for master data
transmission between SAP ERP and SAP TM.
3.1: Organization Master Data.
3.2: General Master Data.
3.2: Transportation Network Master Data.
3.3: Resources Master Data.
3.4: Charges Master Data.
3.5: Dangerous Goods Management
4. SAP Transportation Management
Requirement/Order Management.
Shipper scenarios and forwarder/carrier scenarios
to explain the capabilities of the customer order
objects.
4.1: Order Based Transportation Request.
4.2: Delivery Based Transportation Request.
4.3: Forwarding order Scenario.
5. Transportation Capacity Management
Management of freight capacities and schedules is
an important aspect of being able to move cargo.
5.1: Carrier Schedules.
5.2: Port Schedules
5.3: Departure/Destination Rules
6. SAP Transportation Planning. (Freight unit and
Freight Order Management in Standalone SAP TM )
Transportation planning deals with the activities
involved in the assignment of cargo items to
vehicles or reserved capacities on trucks, trains,
planes, or vessels
6.1: Freight Units Management:
a) Definition
b) Properties of Freight Unit
c) Freight unit building rule.
