Business Scenario Maps Key Performance Indicators Partner Opportunities Logistics for Mill Product companies can involve complex movements of materials utilizing multiple modes and routes. Transportation planning is a key activity to ensure customer delivery satisfaction while minimizing the large cost component. Business Goals & ObjectivesImproving Customer Service Collaborate with business partnersLowering Working Capital Lower work-in-process inventoryReducing Operating Costs & Increasing Efficiency Lower logistics costs
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Transportation Planning![]() |
The Transportation Planning process as part of SAP SCM creates optimizes shipments and transfers these shipments into the connected R/3 systems for execution. To do so, it reads transportation relevant business documents from the connected SAP R/3 systems, assigns the loads represented by these documents, to resources (trucks, railcars, …) to create planned shipments, assigns carriers to these shipments and tenders these shipments to the assigned carriers.
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Transportation Execution![]() |
Transportation Execution is a complete and integrated solution to create, execute and monitor shipments. Transportation Execution provides shipping, collaborative shipment tendering, express ship interface and distance determination functionality.
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Supply Chain Visibility & Tracking![]() |
Supply chain visibility and analytics enable monitoring, measurement and control of supply chain processes. This covers tracking and tracing as well as the calculation of operational and strategic key performance indicators. Visibility covers inbound, outbound and internal areas of business processes. |
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