SAP TM Made Simple | S/4HANA Transportation Management for MM Consultants

SAP TM Made Simple | S/4HANA Transportation Management Explained for MM Consultants New to SAP Transportation Management (TM) and coming from MM? This 10-minute explainer walks through the whole TM process in plain language. Along the way it compares TM to the MM concepts you already know: purchase orders, outline agreements, pricing procedures, service entry sheets and invoice verification. You'll learn: ✔ The core TM document chain: PO/SO → freight unit → freight order → freight settlement → service PO + SES → invoice ✔ Embedded vs. side-by-side TM, and basic shipping vs. advanced TM ✔ TM master data: org units, carriers, locations, zones, lanes, resources ✔ How planning, carrier selection and tendering work ✔ How freight costs are calculated and settled through MM ✔ How freight forwarders (LSPs) use TM ⏱ Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:20 What TM does: the four main areas 1:10 The document chain (from PO to invoice) 2:02 Embedded vs. side-by-side, basic vs. advanced TM 2:44 Master data and the transportation network 3:43 Conditions and incompatibilities 4:12 From purchase order to freight unit 5:11 Transportation planning and the optimizer 6:12 Carrier selection and tendering 6:48 Execution: deliveries, warehouse, tracking, customs 7:40 Freight pricing compared with MM pricing 8:16 Freight settlement: from freight order to paid invoice 8:58 TM for freight forwarders (LSPs) 9:54 Recap 📚 Based on my study of the SAP training courses S4TM1, S4TM2 and TM140.