TRAINING

SAP TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

2 : INTRODUCTION TO TM
BUSINESS OBJECT MODEL

SAP TM
Business Object Model Introduction
SAP TM

SAP ERP

TRQ Q

TOR B

TND
TND
R
R

TRQ D

BOR
BOR

ITEM

FWD
FWD

HDR

Booking

HDR

Tendering

HDR
ITEM

TOR
TOR FU

TRQ B

PO
PO
ITEM

STO
STO
ITEM

Sales
Sales
Order
Order

HDR

OTR
OTR

ITEM

FU
FU

ITEM

Leg 2

TRQ D
HDR

DTR
DTR

ITEM
DO
DO
Charge
Charge
s
s

SHP
SHP

Leg 1

ITEM

ITEM

DO
DO
Charge
Charge
s
s

FOR
FOR
2
2
TOR

FOR
FOR
1
1

FCD
FCD
PO
PO
SFIR

SES
SES

HDR
CFIR

Outb.
Outb.
Invoice
Invoice

Inb.
Inb.
Invoice
Invoice

HDR

FWS
FWS
D
D

FOR
FOR
x
x

TOR

Leg 3

ITEM

DLV
DLV

TOR

FOR
FOR
3
3

FSD
FSD

TOR Q
HDR

TND
TND
R
R

HDR

Subcontracting

HDR

Booking

Business Document Forwarding

Quotation-FWQ

An offer by a freight forwarder to

a customer for the
transportation of goods

The offer binds the freight

forwarder for a certain period of
time to execute a subsequent
forwarding order for a certain
amount of money

The quotation process in

Forwarding Order Management
is seamlessly integrated with the
tendering process in Freight
Order Management

Business Document Forwarding

Order- FWO

An order from an ordering party

to a freight forwarder to
transport goods from one or
multiple shippers to one or
multiple consignees
Contains information about
o Goods to be transported,
Packaging / Resource
Information
o Quantities
o Ship-from and Ship-to
Location
o Pickup and Delivery Dates
o Involved Parties
o Incoterms
The forwarding order can be
received via EDI message (e.g.
from another TM system) or it
can be manually entered via UI

Transportation
Requirement

(OTR/DTR)

ERP Order (such as Sales Order or Purchase

Order) is integrated with Business
Document Order-Based Transportation
Requirement
Transport relevant information of the ERP

Order (such as items, quantities, source

location, destination location, pickup date,
delivery date, business partners) are stored
in the Order-based Transportation
Requirement

Transportation Planning is done based on the

Order-based Transportation Requirement in
order to optimize the requested transports
with respect to the available capacity /
resources

Based on the Transportation Planning ERP

Deliveries are created in SAP ERP

ERP Delivery (such as Inbound Delivery or

Outbound Delivery) is integrated with
Business Document Delivery-Based
Transportation Requirement
The Delivery-Based Transportation

Order Driven Transportation

Requests
Basic Process

Enter SOs, POs or STOs in ERP

Automatic creation of Order Based

Transportation Requests in TM based on ERP
& TM Customization and relevance

Freight Units can be manually or

automatically created in TM

Initial manual or optimized planning can be

performed

Deliveries can be created from TM

Delivery Based Transportation Requirements

consume Order Based Transportation
Requests

FO

Order Driven Transportation Requests

Basic Components