Tmp - The Tm Podcast

This episode is about the new 9.3 functionality, the package builder which can consider packaging rules to find out how many packages/pallets will be most likely used when transporting the materials as defined in the orders. PS: The packaging information is not considered in the delivery creation...

As good agile developers we did some refactoring in TM 9.3. This episode is about the UI part of the refactoring. We talk on why, where and how we refactored. TECH Warning: This one is really technical, if you liked the FBI episode, you will love it, if you don´t know what FBI (in TM context) is, you may skip this episode.

This Episode of TMP is about the NetWeaver Business client, the cool grandchild of the good old SAP GUI. We look into the settings, installation and the very cool search providers. You will love it (the NWBC, maybe also the episode)

This Episode is about Strategic Freight Procurement with SAP TM.

Visual Business is SAPs tool to display business data in an natural way. It allows to show objects on a map and/or in 3D and interact with them. This is used in transportation management and so we took the chance to talk about Visual Business as such and how it is used in the TM world.

The SAP TM Collaboration Portal is an web based component allowing collaboration between TM and the carriers. It covers freight procurement, tendering, execution and finally invoicing/dispute management. So a lot to talk about.

The trigger concept is used to handle locking situations, allow asynchronous updates and separation of concerns. This concept and the report to process this triggers are explained in this episode. The consulting notes mentioned are: 1. For trigger concept mentioned in the podcast is 1747234 2. TM Super Authorization: 1909959 The Application Operations Guide can be found here (for 9.0): https://websmp109.sap-ag.de/~form/handler?_APP=00200682500000002672&_EVENT=DISPLAY&_SCENARIO=&_HIER_KEY=501100035870000015092&_HIER_KEY=601100035870000179414&_HIER_KEY=601100035870000235568&_HIER_KEY=701100035871000571826&

This time it is a very specific topic: "Nature of Goods" (NOG) in Air freight. More precisely it is about "Nature and quantity of goods" and about Nature of goods for manifest.

This episode is about "Strategy to Action" :-> We talk about the way transportation execution is handled within TM.

The focus topic of this episode is Load Planning / Vehicle Space optimization with TM 9.1. As this is a brand new area for us there is a lot to talk about, and so we did :->

This episode is more on the techi side, so fun ahead! We talk about how to develop in the TM (= BOPF ) context and how not to develop in the same.

The new features coming with TM 9.1 are presented her, this time in video format.

The question "Where can I get TM information and documentation?" is something we hear a lot and we try to answer this in this episode. We try to be complete on the different types of documentation, who is the target audience, how can they be found, what are the available languages etc.

TM-Podcast episode 17 gives an overview of the Transportation Management trainings that are currently offered. We talk about the individual content of each training and the prerequisites that are required to successfully take part in this courses. Besides that we shortly talk about certification and the dependencies between the courses.

This first episode after our summer break talks about the TM optimizer, it´s concepts, techniques, options and everything else what came into our minds.

The Business Partner determination in TM.

In this talk we cover how TM is technically integrated with other systems such as SAP ERP or SAP GTS (A2A integration), resp. with business partners such as carriers (B2B integration) to exchange transactional data such as a transportation requirement or a transportation order. Both, mediated integration via SAP PI as well as point-to-point integration using WSRM is discussed w.r.t. technical and application specific configuration of the messaging runtime, pros and cons, principal requirements. For PI based integration, the PI architecture, PI pipeline steps, relevant PI configuration objects, and the role of SLD (system landscape directory) are explained. In addition, we discuss how shipped configuration templates, so called process integration scenarios, can be used to configure the PI runtime fot the TM specific A2A integration scenarios by using a wizard. For P2P based integration, the recommended central configuration is explained and prerequisites such as service groups are described. As round-up some

Geography and the transportation network is a very important aspect in transportation and hence also for SAP TM. In this episode we talk about all the relevant objects in the transportation network like locations, zones, lanes, hub hierarchies etc. We also touch points like GIS systems and ERP integration, but the focus is on rules on how to define the TM transportation network efficiently.

Automated Testing helps you keeping a TM stable and reliable without too much manual testing effort. In this episode we try to cover some aspects of it, specially we focus on using eCATT in the TM context and we also visit newer tools like Selenium.

This episode features our TM mobile applications and the technology behind it. After talking about mobile app technology in general, we give an overview of the available apps and the offered functionality. We have a closer look at the involved layers, which are necessary to connect the mobile app to your TM backend system. In the end we also talk about possible extensions.