SAP Transportation Management

Pros: SAP TM relies on SAP BI platform to deliver reporting and analytics. As with many other SAP products, SAP customers have access to standard SAP Business Warehouse content for SAP TM that provides out-of-the-box extractors, data providers, and queries.

Cons: SAP TM does not have extensive GIS capabilities built in capabilities. Needs improvements.

Overall: Transportation process includes inbound and outbound shipments and shipment cost calculation and settlement.
Well connects with HANA and modeling from studio BW.
Transportation in SAP MM and SD in Logistics Execution PO processing Inbound delivery Goods receipt Invoice verification Sales order processing Outbound delivery Goods issue Billing Inbound shipment Outbound shipment MM ordering SD order processing LE Logistics Execution Vendor Customer managements goods.
Comprehensive transportation zone and lane management, freight tendering, collaboration portal, transportation and route optimization made easy for organizations.
Testing made easy for SD/MM/PPmodules for integrations.
Customizing on partial or open billing makes certain meaningful changes for the records.

Pros: Support with multiple use cases
UI

Cons: Complexity
Bugs

Overall: SAP TM's (sophisticated) functionality as part of their 9.3+ release provides a solution for al industries and use cases. SAP TM has a very complex optimizer which can churn a lot of data and give you optimized shipments, but a lot of parameters must be figured out by users to get desired results. SAP TMS projects can sometimes be exhausting because of the amount of data you need to gather, but sometimes, it gives an opportunity to re-evaluate your entire logistics and supply chain processes.

Recommendations to other buyers: Make sure you know you are ready for TMS before you buy this product

Pros: This software is made for company's that do manage big warehouse and moves of materials and products around the world, it helps for releasing the orders, also has many functionalitys and security hierarchy, so every user know and do, what is has to do.

Cons: Sometimes this software becomes a little bit slow, and it a company with a very big flow of products, items and in/out activity, could become a bottleneck in the warehouse and recieve/left packages.

Overall: A good experience, implementing and customizing it, it was very hard and big difficult, but the customer was pleased with it.

Comments: SAP transportation management solutions TMS provides benefits and features to connect retail processes throughout the business process.
SAP TMS offers one efficient way for data entries process and settlements, makes consolidation for inbound, outbound, domestic and international consignments.
Freight settlements easily manageable with SAP TMS across the geographic locations.
Integration with financials for freight auditing, carrier payment, customer invoicing, internal settlement, and cost distribution.
Streamlining transportation operations benefits all by enhancing compliance, reducing transport costs and order fulfillment time and creating transparency for business processes.