Brief
Transportation Management in SAP S/4HANA involves the strategic planning, execution, and optimization of transportation processes within the SAP S/4HANA system. This module enables businesses to efficiently manage their transportation operations, including route planning, carrier selection, freight cost calculation, and real-time tracking of shipments. By leveraging advanced analytics, automation, and integration capabilities, Transportation Management in SAP S/4HANA aims to enhance supply chain visibility, reduce transportation costs, improve delivery timelines, and ultimately contribute to the overall effectiveness of an organization's logistics and distribution network.
Course Content
S4H00 - SAP S/4HANA Overview
Course announcements
This course is also available in a self-paced e-learning format with an active subscription to the SAP Learning Hub, as S4H00E. This course provides an overview of SAP S/4HANA for learners who do not yet have any SAP background knowledge and want to build SAP S/4HANA skills. The course is recommended as entry point to the SAP S/4HANA curriculum and provides the basics that are required before continuing a learning path to specific areas of interest. This course covers a broad range of topics focusing on SAP S/4HANA solution capabilities and business process aspects.
Goals
This course will prepare you to
- Explain how SAP S/4HANA supports the digital transformation
- Navigate in SAP S/4HANA using SAP Fiori UX and other client technologies
- Describe system-wide concepts such as organizational elements or master data
- Describe key business processes of SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management and SAP S/4HANA LoB solutions
- Describe integration scenarios between SAP S/4HANA and SAP Cloud Solutions
- Use SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics capabilities
- Gain basic knowledge about SAP Activate to accelerate SAP S/4HANA adoption
Content
This course offers a comprehensive overview of SAP S/4HANA, covering essential topics such as navigation, core concepts, logistics, accounting, HR management, analytics, implementation best practices, and SAP services. It covers organizational elements, core data structures, logistics, processes, supply chain activities, accounting, human capital management, and embedded analytics. The course also highlights SAP Activate methodology and best practices for smooth implementation.
Prerequisites
Essential
n/a
Recommended
Basic business application/process background
S4H01 - SAP Business Suite to SAP S/4HANA Delta – Overview
Course announcements
This course provides knowledge relevant for learners who are familiar with the SAP Business Suite/SAP ERP and want to up-skill to SAP S/4HANA. It is the recommended entry point to the SAP S/4HANA curriculum to understand the basics that are required to know before continuing the learning path to specific areas of interest. This course covers a broad range of topics including the motivation for the development of SAP S/4HANA, the new user experience, embedded analytics, underlying SAP HANA technology, and business solution coverage.
Goals
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This course will prepare you to:
- Explain the need for a new business suite
- Describe the evolution of SAP S/4HANA and it’s key aspects
- Describe the next generation user experience
- Describe SAP HANA key technologies and capabilities
- Describe the key business processes of SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management
- Explain SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics capabilities
- Explain the need for a new business suite
- Describe the evolution of SAP S/4HANA and it’s key aspects
- Describe the next generation user experience
- Describe SAP HANA key technologies and capabilities
- Describe the key business processes of SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management
- Explain SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics capabilities
Content
- SAP S/4HANA Introduction
- Key Features
- User Experience
- SAP HANA
- The Digital Core
- Embedded Analytics
- SAP S/4HANA Introduction
- Key Features
- User Experience
- SAP HANA
- The Digital Core
- Embedded Analytics
Prerequisites
Essential
- Basic business application background
- Basic business IT knowledge
- Basic SAP Business Suite/ERP knowledge
S4TM1 - Business Processes in embedded TM in SAP S/4HANA
Course announcements
This course will help you to prepare for the blueprinting stage of your SAP Transportation Management implementation or enable you to use the system in your role as a business user.
You will gain an overview of the key business transactions and system capabilities to enable you to design the processes you will use within your own organization.
You will learn how SAP TM can help you to support Order Management, Transportation Planning, Subcontracting, Execution, Charge Calculation and Settlement.
Goals
This course will prepare you to
- Outline transportation management business processes in S/4HANA
- Identify and examine the SAP TM building blocks necessary for processing shipments of goods
- Engage in transportation network maintenance
- Create transportation relevance for orders and deliveries and manage forwarding orders
- Manage a transportation plan and shipment execution
- Calculate and settle freight charges and distribute costs
- Use SAP S/4 HANA using the Fiori UX
Content
- Overview of Enterprise Risk and Compliance concepts
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Describe Governance and Internal Control objectives and introduction of SAP Process Control
- Describing the Main Components of SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management
- Transportation Management in S/4HANA
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User Experience
- FIORI User Interface
- Working with Personal Object Worklists
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Transportation Management Master Data and Configuration
- Identifying Master Data Requirements: Business Partners and the Transportation Network
- Evaluating the Organizational Structures
- Defining Conditions
- Determining Freight Incompatibilities
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Transportation Requirement Management
- Defining Transportation Relevance for Orders and Deliveries
- Creating Freight Units
- Building Packages
- Managing the Freight Forwarding Process
- Transportation Planning
- Defining the Transportation Planning Process
- Defining Selection and Planning Profiles
- Accessing the Transportation Cockpit for Interactive Planning
- Creating Freight Orders using Optimization
- Optimizing Loads
- Booking Capacities
- Performing Carrier Selection
- Tendering Freight Orders
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Transportation Execution
- Triggering Delivery Creation
- Integration with Warehousing
- Generating Outputs
- Monitoring Transportation Events
- Analyzing Transportation Management Performance
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Charge Calculation and Freight Settlement
- Managing Charge Calculation Master Data
- Calculating Charges in Freight Orders
- Settling Freight Charges
- Distributing Costs
- Calculating and Settling Charges in Forwarding Orders
- Settling Freight Charges in a Group Logistics Scenario
- Managing Freight and Forwarding Agreements
Prerequisites
Recommended
- S4H00 - SAP S/4HANA Overview
- S4600 - Business Processes in SAP S/4HANA Sales
- S4601 - Business Processes in SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain Execution
S4TM2 - Pla006ning and Execution in SAP S/4HANA TM
S4TM3 - Charges and Settlement in SAP S/4HANA TM
Course announcements
This course will help you to prepare for the implementation stage of your SAP Transportation Management project or enable you to configure the system in your role as an application consultant. You will be able to create the necessary master data and configuration in SAP Transportation Management to perform charge calculation. Furthermore, the course explains how to set up SAP Transportation Management (TM) as well as its integration into Materials Management (MM) to facilitate freight settlement processes.
With this course you will be able to explain how to distribute costs to the originating delivery items. Furthermore, this course explains the Strategic Freight Procurement process and the necessary configuration steps to implement it in SAP TM.
Goals
This course will prepare you to:
- Set up all necessary master data for charge calculation
- Perform and check charge calculation
- Configure MM and TM for freight settlement processes
- Distribute calculated costs to their respective originating transportation requirements
- Understand and configure the Strategic Freight Procurement process
Content
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Transportation Management as Part of SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management
- Describing TM in S/4HANA
- Explaining Basic and Advanced Transportation Management
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Transportation Management Master Data and Configuration
- Creating Charge Calculation Master Data: Scale, Rate Table, Calculation Sheet, Freight Agreement
- Configuring Charge Types
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Charge Calculation
- Determining Agreements
- Calculation Special Charges
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Freight Settlement
- Creating Freight Settlement Documents
- Integrating to Materials Management (MM)
- Verifying Invoices
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Cost Distribution and Billing of Freight Cost
- Distributing Freight Costs
- Billing Freight Costs in SD
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Strategic Freight Procurement
- Preparing Strategic Freight Procurement
- Executing a Freight Procurement Process
- Embedded LSP Process
Prerequisites
Recommended
- S4H00 - SAP S/4HANA Overview
- S4600 - Business Processes in SAP S/4HANA Sales
- S4601 - Business Processes in SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain Execution
- S4TM1 - Business Processes in S/4HANA TM
- S4TM2 - Planning and Execution in S/4HANA TM
Audience
- Application Consultant
- Business Process Owner / Team Lead / Power User
- Change Manager
- Enterprise Architect
- Data Consultant / Manager
- Developer
- Development Consultant
- Program/Project Manager
- Technology Consultant
- Trainer
- User
Certification
C_S4TM_2020 - SAP Certified Application Associate - Transportation Management in SAP S/4HANA
The "SAP Certified Application Associate - Transportation Management in SAP S/4HANA" certification exam verifies that the candidate possesses fundamental knowledge and skills in the area of SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) and Transportation Management in SAP S/4HANA. This certificate proves that the candidate has an overall understanding of the solution within the application consultant for SAP Transportation Management profile and can implement this knowledge practically in projects under the guidance of an experienced consultant. This certificate builds on the basic knowledge gained through related Transportation Management in SAP S/4HANA training and refined by practical experience as part of an SAP TM or Transportation Management in SAP S/4HANA implementation team. This exam is an entry-level qualification to allow consultants to validate their knowledge of Transportation Management in SAP S/4HANA or SAP TM solution fundamentals. This certification exam is relevant for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition and SAP S/4HANA on-premise.