Drive Smarter, More Resilient Transportation Operations with SAP Transportation Management
Transportation performance drives cost-to-serve, customer promises, and resilience—especially in complex, multi‑entity and cross‑border networks. Many organizations face fragmented processes, limited visibility, and rising freight costs while modernizing their SAP landscape.
SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) is the enterprise TMS from SAP that integrates planning, execution, and settlement across all modes. It consolidates orders, optimizes loads and routes, automates freight costing and settlement, and provides real‑time visibility through SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Network for Logistics. Through embedded analytics the performance of internal & external process stakeholders can be measured.
Running on SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP TM connects transportation with inventory, order management, warehouse execution, and finance - improving efficiency, accuracy, and sustainability across the logistics chain.
As a leading consulting and systems integrator for SAP SCM, msg helps enterprises design, implement, optimize, and run SAP TM - using our proven, risk‑managed delivery approach (PROFI) focused on business outcomes and value, not just go‑lives.
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Jarrett Leesch
VP Supply Chain Sales
Typical transportation challenges we address with SAP TM
- Freight spend increases without clear drivers of the spend increase or levers for control
- Manual planning/dispatching causing errors and inconsistent execution
- Limited track & trace and exception visibility across carriers/modes
- Disconnected carrier collaboration and time‑consuming coordination
- Manual carrier invoice verification and time-consuming invoice workflows
- Utilization of embedded analytics to enable a KPI-driven transportation process
- Divergent ways of working across plants, regions, and business units
- Transformation pressure: LE‑TRA sunset and aging TMS/legacy processes
Benefits of SAP TM
For logistics and supply chain leaders seeking improved planning, real‑time visibility and cost control, and IT/Operations teams modernizing legacy TMS solutions, SAP TM is the solution that:
- Standardizes transport planning and execution across plants, countries, and entities while still adhering to local/regional regulations
- Improves freight spend governance and cost transparency by lane/mode/carrier
- Manages complex, global multimodal networks (road, rail, air, sea) in one system
- Increases service reliability through proactive, structured exception handling
- Integrates seamlessly with SAP EWM, SD, MM, FI/CO, SAP GTS and SAP Business Networks
- Enables scalable rollout with templates, accelerators, and governance
- Delivers operational KPIs for continuous improvement and auditability
Business Value - Tangible Outcome
Whether you are a C-Level executive, transportation director or transport dispatcher, SAP TM delivers the outcomes businesses are looking for.
Cost‑to‑Serve Control
Visibility to drivers, scenario modeling, and guided decisions
Planning Efficiency
Less manual effort, higher planner productivity, optimizer supported planning, fewer errors
Service Reliability
Improved predictability, fewer escalations, happier customers
Operational Visibility
Real‑time milestones, alerts, and faster disruption response
Analytics
Embedded KPI monitoring to track the performance of your transportation processes
Scalability
Repeatable rollouts across countries, sites, and business units
Risk Reduction
Controlled LE‑TRA migration with a proven msg approach
SAP TM also delivers optimization and cost savings. By enabling businesses to have smooth, aligned transportation management processes, SAP TM can:
- Reduce transportation spend by up to 30% through optimization and automation
- Improve on‑time performance by up to 20% with better planning and exception control
- Accelerate freight settlement by up to 50% via integrated billing workflows
- Cut CO₂ emissions with optimized routes, consolidation, and fewer empty miles
- Speed decision‑making with real‑time analytics and predictive insights
Our SAP TM Service Portfolio
We partner end‑to‑end — from early assessments & architecture through implementation & test to post‑go‑live optimization and AMS. Our approach emphasizes measurable outcomes, strong governance, and business continuity.
- Transportation process assessment and target operating model (TOM)
- SAP TM fit‑gap analysis, scope definition, and value hypothesis
- Solution architecture, data & integration strategy (SAP and non‑SAP)
- Roadmap planning for DACH/Europe multi‑country rollouts
- Business case build‑out, KPI definition, and success measurement
- Design review of your current SAP TM implementation to identify improvement potentials & further benefits realization
- Program/project management (agile, waterfall) with governed milestones and risk logs
- End‑to‑end process design and configuration aligned to strategy
- Integration design and test management across connected systems
- Cutover planning, go‑live support, and structured hypercare
- Enablement for planners, dispatchers, and finance teams
Transform and migrate seamlessly from SAP LE-TRA to SAP TM. Using accelerators and data governance frameworks, we reduce downtime and risk throughout your transformation journey.
- Migration planning, impact analysis, and risk mitigation
- Data mapping, cleansing approach, ownership model, and governance
- Transition approach (phased vs. big‑bang) with decision support
- Cutover rehearsals and operational continuity planning
- Post‑migration stabilization and performance tuning
We extend functionality through custom configurations and industry-specific enhancements that give you a competitive edge.
- Functional enhancements prioritized by business impact
- Process extensions for automation, global tracking and tracing, geo maps
- Individual developments (i.e. custom RF screens, mobile transactions, or Fiori apps)
- KPI‑driven improvement cycles (planning quality, tendering success, exceptions)
- Ongoing rate management and analytics refinement
- Continuous improvement governance and backlog management
- Functional and technical user training
- Transportation resources training on RF/UIs and transportation automation systems
- Change management planning and execution
- Documentation and knowledge transfer
Ensuring lasting agility with SAP TM through continuous support, proactive monitoring and optimization services focused on keeping your transportation management operations smooth and flowing post deployment.
- Application Management Services (AMS) with SLAs aligned to business criticality
- Incident, problem, and change management
- Release and regression testing for quarterly and project waves
- Proactive performance monitoring and tuning
- On‑demand advisory for process enhancements and new rollouts
Why msg is the right partner for you
- SAP Gold Partner and proven global scale delivering SAP logistics solutions across regions
- SAP Supply Chain and SAP TM certified experts—deep functional and technical skills
- SAP SCM specialization: transportation within an end‑to‑end supply chain context
- Risk‑managed delivery: strong governance, test discipline, and cutover readiness
- Integration excellence: upstream/downstream dependencies managed methodically
- Accelerated deployment using best practices, industry templates, and automation
- Global delivery with regional experts and near‑shore teams for cost and speed
- Lifecycle engagement: design → implementation → optimization → AMS
- Predictable outcomes via standardized project methodologies and KPIs
- Value continuity: focus on measurable in both business and IT results
SAP TM Functions
SAP TM is recognized as one of the top transportation management systems and is a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. SAP TM covers your transportation management requirements with functions such as:
- Freight capacity management
- Freight procurement and carrier agreements
- Freight contract management
- What-if modeling for freight sourcing
- Carrier compliance tracking and reporting
- Order communication and consolidation across systems
- Rule-based routing proposals
- Integration with order-to-cash and procure-to-pay
- Order and delivery visibility with S/4HANA integration
- Central and decentralized transportation planning
- Single-mode and multimodal transport planning
- Domestic and international transport planning
- Constraint- and resource-based planning and replanning
- Transportation Cockpit
- Load planning and optimization
- Mode, route, and resource optimization
- Freight tendering and carrier selection
- Transportation execution from pickup to delivery
- Real-time status integration with SAP EWM and SAP Yard Logistics
- Trade compliance integration with SAP GTS
- Transportation document output
- Carrier collaboration via SAP Logistics Business Network
- Freight cost calculation based on rates and tariffs
- Cost allocation to orders and deliveries
- Freight settlement, invoicing, and verification
- Dispute and claims handling
- Freight cost reporting and transparency
- Integration with S/4HANA finance processes
- Transportation planning and control
- Transport cost and status dashboards
- KPI tracking with embedded analytics
- Real-time transportation reporting
Ready to modernize your transportation management with a leading TMS solution?
- Book an expert session with our SAP TM specialists
- Request an LE‑TRA → SAP TM migration readiness assessment
- Plan your transportation roadmap with msg supply chain experts
Jarrett Leesch
VP Supply Chain Sales