Context Pricing freight agreements in SAP Transportation Management (TM) often relies on the combination “Origin × Final Destination.” In day‑to‑day planning, however, many businesses operate a “star” model – a fixed origin such as a distribution center serving multiple variable destinations. The standard TM cockpit doesn’t support this model. In a linear stage flow the…
When managing transportation resources in SAP Transportation Management (TM), planners often need to know where their vehicles are in real time. SAP TM offers a Transportation Cockpit where trucks and trailers can be planned, monitored and visualised on a map. However, showing live positions on the map requires more than just activating a feature –…
Learn how to draw real road geometries on the SAP TM Planning Cockpit map by calling HERE Routing v8, decoding polylines, and injecting ROUTE_POINTS via the ADJUST_NEW_OBJECTS BAdI.
When SAP customers talk about transport management, two acronyms appear: LE ‑TRA (the Logistics Execution – Transportation component) and SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM). LE‑TRA belongs to the Logistics Execution module of SAP ECC and provides basic shipping functions such as grouping deliveries into shipments, simple route and schedule definition, delivery monitoring and freight cost calculation….