Transportation Management, optimized end to end.
Plan, tender, execute, settle, and analyze every shipment on one platform, integrated natively with S/4HANA. Faster vehicle scheduling and routing, load consolidation, lower freight cost, higher on-time delivery.
Global transportation network
Supply-chain performance shapes the customer experience.
SAP TM is a modern, end-to-end platform for planning, monitoring, and analyzing transportation, built for growth, productivity, and cost reduction. It gives you real-time insight into inbound and outbound freight based on sales orders, purchase orders, deliveries, stock transfers, and returns, and it integrates seamlessly with sales order scheduling, order-to-cash and procure-to-pay, and your other logistics applications.
In other words, freight stops being a black box between the sale and the books. From the order to the settled invoice, it is one system.
Everything a transportation network needs.
Sales order scheduling
Schedule against reality: SAP TM accounts for truck availability and ocean-ship departure schedules when it sequences orders, so the plan reflects what can actually move.
Strategic freight management
Automate the quote-to-contract process, forecast future transportation demand, and negotiate and manage freight rates in one place.
Order & freight management
Integrate orders, purchase orders, deliveries, stock transfers, and returns from S/4HANA and third-party ERPs into one freight workflow.
Planning & optimization
Manual and automated, map-based planning with route and capacity optimization, improved resource utilization, and lower freight cost.
Carrier selection
Select carriers automatically by cost, priority, allocation, and business share, with the rules you set.
Combined shipment
Combine inbound and outbound deliveries on a single shipment, with none of the limitations of legacy transportation modules.
Charge management
Calculate freight cost during planning, not after, so the cost of a plan is known before it is committed.
Settlement & billing
Freight settlement, agency billing, and carrier and service billing, handled inside the system.
Dock & yard scheduling
Our in-house solution for slot booking and yard moves, so docks and yards stop bottlenecking the network.
Dangerous goods
Compliant handling and documentation for hazardous materials, built into the freight process, not bolted on.
Driver management
Assign, track, and manage drivers as part of the same plan that moves the freight.
Real-time analytics
Real-time reporting across freight cost, on-time performance, and network health, to make better decisions faster.
Planning that pays for itself, load after load.
The optimizer weighs trucks, ships, lanes, and schedules together, then proposes the plan that moves the most freight for the least cost without breaking a delivery promise. It is map-based, it accounts for real constraints, and it consolidates loads other systems cannot.
- Map-based planning with route and capacity optimization
- Sales-order scheduling around truck and ocean departure windows
- Combine inbound and outbound transports to fill capacity
- Improved resource utilization and lower freight cost
- On-time delivery protected, not traded away for savings
Start where you are. Grow without re-platforming.
SAP TM scales from a focused freight operation to a fully optimized, multi-document network. Both tiers run on the same core.
- Freight agreements and charge management
- Basic transportation planning with worklists and manual freight-unit selection
- Freight settlement and agency billing
- Dangerous goods management
- Direct tendering to service agents
- Inbound and outbound freight aligned to sales orders, POs, deliveries, stock transfers, and returns
- Map-based planning with route and capacity optimization
- Advanced charge calculation
- Carrier and service billing
- Driver management
- Native SAP EWM integration
- Full TM analytics
Transportation Management, now native to S/4HANA.
Since S/4HANA 1709, Transportation Management runs embedded inside S/4HANA, replacing the legacy LE-TRA module, which SAP is retiring. Running TM as part of the digital core, rather than a separate system, removes whole layers of integration overhead and cost.
- No master-data transfer to TM, so the CIF interface is no longer needed
- A reduced database footprint
- No duplication of configuration objects or transaction documents
- Lower total cost of ownership
- One real-time logistics core, with a clean migration path off LE-TRA
Wired into the rest of your SAP estate.
TM is most powerful when it is not an island. We connect it across the landscape you already run, and to third-party systems where you need them.
Embedded TM · S/4HANA
Run TM natively inside S/4HANA for a single, real-time logistics core, with no cross-system data transfer.
SAP EWM
A direct, web-services integration: planning results flow to EWM, transportation units are created automatically in the warehouse, and execution confirmations such as loading and quantity discrepancies flow back to TM.
SAP EM
Monitor transportation execution end to end. Dispatchers, shippers, and ordering parties track planned events or report actual ones across freight units, orders, bookings, transportation units, and resources.
SAP GTS
Handle customs processing and run trade-compliance checks on TM business documents before goods move.
SAP LBN
Collaborate with carriers and partners on the SAP Logistics Business Network, connected to your core.
Move more freight, for less, without the surprises.
Bring us your network and your freight bill. We will show you where SAP TM takes cost out and certainty in.