Interested in learning the secrets of controlling and reducing transportation costs? This book will expertly guide you through Transportation Charge Management in SAP S/4HANA, highlighting the most important aspects of setting up Charge Management. Learn how to set up agreements/contracts with business partners and provide detailed rate structures. Dive into Charge Management master data, including master data objects, agreements, rate structures, rate tables, dimensions, and determinations. Explore how different types of agreements are set up and how they are linked to the master data objects, as well as key integration points. Learn how to perform strategic freight procurement/strategic freight sales in order to reach the best agreement possible for your organization. Understand how charges are calculated on the various business documents. Take a detailed look at the settings and confi guration required to accurately calculate charges. Explore practical examples, including scenarios that you might encounter in your logistics operations. With practical examples, tips, and screenshots, this book covers: - Transportation Charge Management processes - Charge Management master data - Strategic freight procurement and sales - Settings and confi guration

Navigate the changing landscape of transportation management! With this comprehensive guide, learn how to configure and use TM functionality in both SAP TM 9.6 and SAP S/4HANA 1809. Start with the TM fundamentals: solution options, architecture, and master data. Then walk step by step through key TM processes such as transportation planning, subcontracting, and charge management. Using well-tread industry best practices, optimize TM for your business! Highlights include: Order and capacity management Transportation planning Master data Carrier selection Subcontracting Execution and monitoring Charge management Settlement and calculation Integration Best practices

Managing the movement of goods from one place to another is just one small requirement of a Transportation Management (TM) software. To understand the complete process, there is so much more to consider. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the transportation processes supported by SAP TM 9.3 including functional highlights, system architecture options (including HANA), and integration aspects. Dive into planning, execution, and tracking processes and detailed configuration. Get best practices on how to best set up capacity management functionality and learn more about charge calculation and settlement. This hands-on guide is for those new to SAP TM, as well as experienced solution consultants, and includes step-by-step descriptions and screenshots. - A Comprehensive Overview of All of the Processes Enabled by SAP TM - Configuration Best Practices for All Modes of Transport - Instructions for Integrating Transportation Requirements - Tips on Integration with SAP ERP, EWM, GTS, EH&S, EM - Options for Manual, Semi-automated, and Completely Automated Planning

This updated bestseller is your ride to a comprehensive view of SAP TM business processes and use. Learn to plan and document transportation, select carriers, and create forwarding orders. Discover industry-tested best practices and optimize standard functionality to make SAP TM do everything you need it to do. Up to date for SAP TM 9.2 and 9.3!

SAP EM is SAP's standard solution for monitoring business process status and providing proactive exception management. Five years after the first edition, we now unveil far more details than before. In particular, we now include new chapters covering SAP Transportation Management and SAP Global Trade Services and their use of SAP EM and Operational Management. In addition, we also cover the new SAP EM releases all the way up to Release 9.2, which is in ramp up at the time of publication. We discuss SAP EM with HANA and even bring Fiori in to the discussion. Many tips, tricks and sample code are found throughout the book. We have also greatly spruced up the additional information chapter, which is now a "must have" for any SAP EM consultant or developer to use as a reference guide. The complete IMG, together with verified transactions, are listed in this chapter. If you want to see how to call the SAP EM web service using an ABAP proxy, then check out the section under "development stuff."

"Interested in what SAP S/4HANA has to offer? Find out with this big-picture guide! Take a tour of SAP S/4HANA functionality for your key lines of business: finance, manufacturing, supply chain, sales, and more. Preview SAP S/4HANA's architecture, and discover your options for reporting, extensions, and adoption. With insights into the latest intelligent technologies, this is your all-in-one SAP S/4HANA starting point!"--

SAP S/4HANA brings change to your routine controlling activities. Perform your key tasks in the new environment with this user guide! Get click-by-click instructions for your daily and monthly overhead controlling tasks, and then dive deeper into processes such as make-to-stock/make-to-order scenarios, margin analysis, and investment management. Finally, instructions for intercompany transactions and reporting make this your all-in-one resource! In this book, you'll learn about: a. Master Data See how your financials data is organized in SAP S/4HANA for management accounting. Understand the key reporting entities, from general ledger accounts and cost centers to specific master data for margin analysis. b. Functional Tasks Walk through your core controlling activities for overhead costs, manufacturing costs, sales costs, investments, and intercompany transactions. Learn how to assess each data type with step-by-step guidance and tips from the experts. c. Reporting Discover the reports that gather your cost data for assessment. Get insight into SAP S/4HANA innovations that impact reporting, including the SAP Fiori interface, the virtual data model, global accounting hierarchies, and more. Highlights include: 1) Organizational structures 2) Master data 3) Overhead controlling 4) Production controlling 5) Service controlling 6) Margin analysis 7) Event-based revenue recognition 8) Investment controlling 9) Intercompany scenarios 10) Reporting 11) Universal Journal 12) User interfaces (UI)

Materials management has transitioned to SAP S/4HANA--let us help you do the same! Whether your focus is on materials planning, procurement, or inventory, this guide will teach you to configure and manage your critical processes in SAP S/4HANA. Start by creating your organizational structure and defining business partners and material master data. Then get step-by-step instructions for defining the processes you need, from creating purchase orders and receiving goods to running MRP and using batch management. The new MM is here! Material master data Business partner master data Batch management Purchasing Quotation management Material requirements planning (MRP) Inventory management Goods issue/goods receipt (GI/GR) Invoicing Valuation Document management Reporting

Is your company striving to control and reduce transportation costs? Transportation management goes far beyond moving goods from point A to point B. Dive into the complex world of Transportation Settlement with this comprehensive guide, expertly written to introduce you to Transportation Settlement in SAP S/4HANA, highlighting the main processes and functionalities. Explore freight settlement, freight invoicing, forwarding settlement, internal settlement, group logistics, cost distribution and credit memos. Examine the processes and configuration, in detail, for shipper and freight forwarding scenarios, as well as how they are connected. Whether you are a functional consultant, technical expert, or business user, practical examples and use cases will help you understand how to leverage Transportation Settlement. Equip yourself with the knowledge to optimize SAP TM processes effectively. Using screenshots and examples, the author covers: - Freight settlement and freight invoicing - Forwarding settlement, internal settlement, and group logistics - Cost distribution and credit memos - Detailed processes and configurations

This book is the must-have resource for using SAP Logistics Execution System (LES) to efficiently manage your transportation and shipment requirements. In it you'll find detailed, practical information on all of your delivery process issues: from the creation of deliveries, to transportation planning, to settlements with your forwarding agents. Using an ongoing example throughout the book, you'll learn how to create delivery and shipment documents, control picking, and transfer packing data, as well as how you can control shipments and how to post the goods issue. You'll also learn about interfaces to other areas, such as dangerous goods management, plus availability checks and much more. Finally, the author explains how you can overcome the limits of the standard SAP system by leveraging user exits. The practical, hands-on approach helps you master key transactions, paths, and best practices for transportation management that you'll be sure to reach for time and time again. Based on Release SAP ERP 6.0, this book can also be used for older releases without any problem.