HOW TO EFFICIENTLY MANAGE TRANSPORT- RELATED PROCESSES USING SAP TM MODULE

One of the main problems that companies face on a daily basis is the management of the transport process: costs, control of freight forwarder invoices and, in general, all the logistical steps that need to be monitored for activities that do not have transport as a core business but have to cover certain costs to send goods to customers.

The Transportation Management (TM) module of SAP has been developed to manage the transport processes within the company. It can be used both by companies that use freight forwarders and by those that provide this type of service.

What is the purpose of the SAP TM module?

There are a number of operational and economic benefits associated with this solution:

  • Optimisation and planning of transport, which helps to generate increased productivity by managing the entire process more efficiently and effectively;
  • Monitoring of the flow of goods, from the beginning to the end of the process;
  • The possibility of entering and monitoring, thanks to the TM module, plannable costs and managing unplannable costs. The latter, in particular, are reduced because, through optimised processes, it is possible to enter parameters that avoid unexpected costs;
  • Possibility to automate the generation of accruals and control charges and carrier invoicing. In other words, the system calculates the costs incurred in a given period, allowing management to have a clear idea of how much the company will have to pay in real time;
  • Monitoring the impact of the various items on transport costs (orders and materials);
  • Transport planning, both manual, based on maps, and automated, using dynamic replanning functions;
  • Real-time visualisation of the space available on the vehicles that are to make the deliveries;
  • Constant tracking of vehicle drivers through the use of predefined assignments and the interactive cockpit;
  • Upstream analysis and reporting to support decision-making processes in order to review all outflows in terms of costs and establish the most consistent planning;
  • Downstream reporting to highlight costs incurred during the different steps until the end of the process.
  • Possibility of managing multimodal transport systems.

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