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Transportation Management

Business Scenario

 


Business Scenario Maps

  • Replenishment Based Distribution
  • Shipment Tendering
  • Transportation - Track, Trace and Manage Railcars
  • Key Performance Indicators

  • Inbound Freight and Duties
  • Transportation Costs
  • Transportation Cycle Time
  • Partner Opportunities

  • Partner Opportunities in Mill Products - Fabricated Metal Products
  • Geographical Information System Provider for Transportation

  • 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 & Objectives


    Improving Customer Service

    Collaborate with business partners

    Lowering Working Capital

    Lower work-in-process inventory

    Reducing Operating Costs & Increasing Efficiency

    Lower logistics costs

     



    Business Processes

    Transportation PlanningSAP Component or Feature Available
    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.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP ERP
  • SAP Transportation Operations for Mill Products
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    Transportation ExecutionSAP Component or Feature Available
    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.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP ERP
  • SAP Transportation Operations for Mill Products
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    Supply Chain Visibility & TrackingSAP Component or Feature Available

    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.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP ERP
  • SAP Transportation Operations for Mill Products
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    SAP Product Available Partner Product Available SAP Product Available with Future Releases Partner Product Available with Future Releases Future Focus