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SAP Transportation Management Integration with EWM

One of SAP’s main strengths is the level of “out-of-the-box” integration between various SAP solutions. When it comes to SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM), integration capabilities

Anton Karnaukhov November 14, 2024

SAP Transportation Management Optimizer Demystified

The most mysterious part of SAP’s Transportation Management solution is the Optimizer, and it’s not even close. With almost every other functionality in SAP TM, we

Anton Karnaukhov January 29, 2024

SAP Transportation Management Ocean Planning Guide

In this blog post, we are going to focus on SAP Transportation Management capabilities in the context of ocean planning. SAP S4/HANA TM has firmly

Anton Karnaukhov March 8, 2023

SAP Business Network for Logistics – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Author’s Note: This post was originally published in August 2021 and has been updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness to cover the current SAP Business Network

Anton Karnaukhov August 17, 2021

Overview of Key Innovations in Transportation Management Included in SAP S/4HANA 2020

With the recent release of SAP S/4HANA 2020 we’ve had a chance to compile a list of key innovations being released in the Transportation Management

Anton Karnaukhov July 8, 2020

SAP Transportation Management – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

We decided to compile and share a list of question about SAP Transportation Management (TM) that we hear most frequently from companies that are interested in learning more about SAP TM. A lot of these questions are fairly basic and high-level, so this FAQ will be most helpful to people who have limited knowledge of SAP Transportation Management capabilities and requirements.

Anton Karnaukhov May 12, 2020

Carrier Portal Options with SAP Transportation Management

Having a carrier portal is a rather common requirement for companies that are looking to implement a Transportation Management System (TMS). Fortunately, SAP has a number of solutions that can help provide your carriers with a web portal that they can access via the Internet and utilize to display and edit critical transportation-related information as well as collaborate with you in a typical end-to-end transportation management cycle.

Anton Karnaukhov February 10, 2020

BRFplus – a hidden gem within your SAP system

No matter how much one tries to minimize customization in an SAP system some volume of custom business logic is usually unavoidable. Historically this meant introducing custom ABAP syntax in various user-exists, enhancements, BAdI\’s and custom programs. Given the complex and interdependent nature of an SAP system, it becomes imperative to carefully manage such ABAP-based customization in order to ensure that business logic is in sync across various functional areas and is not duplicated. That\’s where SAP Business Rules Framework Plus (BRFplus) comes into play – a fairly new piece of functionality from SAP that makes it possible to manage all of your custom business logic in a single place and in a re-usable way.

Anton Karnaukhov March 21, 2015

Baby, You Can Drive My Car (SAPPHIRE News from BestXperts)

You know that Beatles\’ song, Drive My Car?

Sure, on the surface it\’s about one person\’s dream of fame – but at heart it\’s about taking risks.

You can go ahead and hit the road with your vision – and maybe a driver – but you don\’t have to get bogged down by planning every step before you even start.

Explore the theme of getting started, paired with some reasonable risk-taking, by joining two SAPPHIRE presentations by Anton Karnaukhov and our client, Woodgrain Millworks.

Mike O'Dell May 23, 2014

Feature planning in an agile SAP implementation

In one of our previous posts we talked about the core roles and basic team structure in an agile SAP implementation. We are now ready to take a look at one of the first steps in planning the implementation and assessing the work that will need to be done by each team – defining the project features.

A feature (aka epic or epic story) is the next level down from the overall project in that a single project contains one or more features. There is no black and white rule on what makes up a feature but here are some guiding principles that we try to utilize:

Anton Karnaukhov April 17, 2014