The Transportation Planning process creates optimizes shipments and
transfers these shipments into the connected ERP systems for
execution. To do so, it reads transportation relevant business
documents from the connected SAP ERP 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
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
A shipment can have costs which represent the charges of the Transportation Service Provider (TSP, carrier), possible handling charges, surcharges such as fuel, and other accessorial or direct transportation costs. The Shipment Cost Document enables the calculation of the shipment costs for any given shipment.
This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings
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