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Optimise your transportation business processes with SAP Transportation Management (TM)

While savings and efficiencies can often be generated through outsourcing transportation to Logistic Service Providers, substantial benefits can be yielded for those companies that run transportation internally – “shippers”. The core challenge for shippers to stay competitive in today’s globalized world is to be able to provide and extend their supply chain to ensure service excellence, while reducing logistics costs and transportation complexity.

To be successful, logistics and transportation managers will need to:

With over 40 years in the consulting business and in-depth SAP Supply Chain Logistics experience within various industries, Westernacher is your right partner to take on these challenges.

Underlying technologies are often the key inhibitor to this success:

• Inadequate functionality leading to manual processes and workarounds

• Patchwork of off-the shelf and/or ‘home grown’ information systems

• Separate technologies for each mode of transport each with separate support teams and users

• Stand-alone solutions with little integration

With SAP Transportation Management (TM), all these challenges can be overcome with a fully inte-grated transportation solution that reaches back into your ERP or other third party systems.

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Transport Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Settlement

Improving operational efficiency while ensuring service excellence and reducing your transportation costs

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• Manage the transportation logistics network in a holistic manner

• Minimize risk factors across the entire supply chain

• Reduce operational costs

• Maximise utilisation of assets

• Deliver to expected customer service levels while remaining flexible and responsive to unexpected events

• Ensure compliance with all regulations and policies

By implementing SAP’s Transportation Management (TM) solution, your company can quickly materialise essential benefits when it comes to optimising your transport business.

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Introducing the transport management solution from SAP

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SAP TM enables shippers to manage inbound and outbound, domestic and international freight across various transportation modes in a single envi-ronment and provides improved traceability and visibility of orders, shipments and logistics processes.

Optimize your transportation business processes with SAP Transportation Management (TM)

If your company:

• is a shipper of goods • has customers with high

expectations for shipment performance • focuses on fulfillment

reliability • deals with high shipment

volumes and high seasonal demand • faces dynamic changes in

customer orders • has no automated systems

for carrier selection and tendering processes, • wants to reduce transport

costs and efforts while increasing service levels

then you should consider talking to us to help you derive and design your busi-ness needs and transporta-tion processes and SAP’s Transportation Management solution.

Improved on-time delivery performance through better multi modal planning and higher transparency.

Reduced transportation costs by determining the most effective transportation modes and routes, including the sequence of pickups and deliveries.

Improved transportation efficiency, readiness and agility by operating, orches-trating and monitoring trans-portation processes in a highly automated way.

Better transport vehicle utilization through better planning and carrier collaboration.

Key Benefits with SAP TM

Improved control across the entire transport manage-ment process from quoting, to planning, execution, monitoring and settlement through higher visibility and traceability.

Want to find out more?Call us to set up a free consultation. We will review your specific requirements and demonstrate how SAP Transportation Management (TM) can optimize your transportation processes to create business benefits.

With over 40 years in the consulting business and in-depth SAP Supply Chain Logistics experience in various industries.

From manual and fragmented to automated and integrated

Capacity Procurement & Network Planning

Order Management

Freight Execution & Monitoring

Customer Billing & Freight Settlement

TM, EM, ECC (possibly other SAP modules and/or third party systems)