Transportation Management Features

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Strategic freight management

Optimise freight procurement with advanced analysis, forecasting, and simulation
Streamline the quote-to-contract process and automate rate determination
Evaluate and prepare bids with predictive, insight-driven quotation rounds
Exchange information efficiently with logistics service providers

Order management

Generate optimal routing proposals dynamically for rules-based orders
Manage changes in transportation demand with real-time order-to-cash and procure-to-pay processes
Synchronise sales and order scheduling to support customer delivery commitments
Integrate order and delivery data in SAP ERP

Transportation planning

Use manual, map-based, or automated planning and dynamic replanning functions
Build pallets with flexible, rules-based optimisation
Visualise load planning of vehicle space and loading
Track and manage driver resources with default assignments in an interactive cockpit or Gantt chart

Transportation execution

Automate updates in freight documents and share truck information
Enable capacity monitoring, management, and tracking with real-time event management
Communicate with business partners flexibly by using collaboration tools
Leverage comprehensive templates for road, sea, and air carriers

Freight costing and settlement

Advance freight charge calculation and manage mode-specific charges and tariffs
Allocate freight cost accurately across orders and materials
Settle freight with capabilities such as accruals posting and carrier self-invoicing
Manage invoice disputes with tolerance settings and workflows

Analytics and reporting

Support real-time, data-driven decision-making with graphical dashboards running on SAP HANA
Deliver flexible reports across transportation areas
Use an interactive dashboard to assess freight costs
Determine optimal rates and combinations of modes, routes, resources, and carriers

SAP S/4HANA

One platform for logistics and transportation

Reduce data redundancy, effort, and cost – while empowering your business to run more simply – with a centrally deployed system that brings together transportation and logistics processes.