SAP TM glossary: A
56 terms in plain words, with the official German SAP term. Key terms link to their own page.
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Acceptance or rejection of a freight request for quotation
DE Annahme oder Ablehnung einer Frachtanfrage Carrier and tenderingThe carrier's answer to a freight request for quotation, which must be given within the response time.
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Account determination
Charges and settlementAccount determination finds the general ledger (G/L) account for a posting.
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Accruals
Charges and settlementFreight cost accruals are postings of expected transportation costs to Financials, made ahead of invoice verification.
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Ad hoc loading
DE Ad-hoc-Laden Execution and trackingAn Advanced Shipping and Receiving feature that assigns freight units to road freight orders directly on the warehouse floor while the handling units are loaded.
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Adjustment of distances and durations for the DDD buffer
DDD DE Entfernungen und Dauern für den EDE-Puffer anpassen Master data and cross-processA report for manually adjusting distances and durations stored in the buffer of distance and duration determination (DDD).
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ADR 1.1.3.6 points check calculation
DE Berechnung für Punkteprüfung gemäß ADR 1.1.3.6 Master data and cross-processA dangerous goods check that calculates points according to section 1.1.3.6 of the ADR, the international agreement on carrying dangerous goods by road, to decide whether the exemption described there applies.
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ADR dangerous goods note
DE ADR Beförderungspapier für Gefahrgüter Freight orderA standard print form for road transports of dangerous goods under the ADR, printed from a freight order with a default template delivered by SAP. It is only produced when products in the freight order are classified as dangerous goods in Product Compliance, and the system fills it with data from specific freight order fields.
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Advanced RFQs
DE Erweiterte Anfragen Carrier and tenderingAn option in the freight agreement RFQ type that provides improved usability and features for freight agreement requests for quotation.
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Advanced shipping and receiving
Advanced SR DE Erweiterter Warenannahme- und Versandprozess Execution and trackingAn integrated end-to-end process for sending, receiving and transporting goods that coordinates the steps from a truck's arrival at the gate to the final goods receipt in the warehouse.
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Advanced SR for decentralized EWM and TM
DE Erweiterter W/V-Prozess für das dezentrale EWM und TM Execution and trackingA deployment option of Advanced Shipping and Receiving in which a decentralised EWM and TM system runs transportation logistics on the basis of outbound deliveries that stem from sales orders.
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Advanced TM
Master data and cross-processThe full scope of SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain for Transportation Management.
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Agency business
Charges and settlementAgency business refers to agency business documents, which SAP Help lists as a configuration step for the cost pull variant of cost distribution: costs distributed on the freight side are transferred to the forwarding side and used for settlement with a customer or an internal organisation.
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Agreement and calculation sheet determination
DE Vereinbarungs- und Berechnungsschemaermittlung Charges and settlementThis is the logic by which TM finds the most suitable agreement, and thereby its calculation sheet, during charge calculation in order to determine a rate.
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Agreement determination
Charges and settlementAgreement determination is the step in charge calculation where the system selects the applicable agreement for a business partner and organisational unit.
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Agreement maintenance
DE Vereinbarungspflege Charges and settlementAgreement maintenance is the creation and upkeep of freight, forwarding, internal and mutual agreements as the starting point for charge calculation.
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Agreement type
Charges and settlementThe agreement type distinguishes forwarding, freight and internal agreements.
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Agreements and charge calculation
DE Vereinbarungen und Kostenberechnung Charges and settlementThis topic covers the charge-calculation settings you make within agreements, since TM calculates transportation charges from agreements and charge management master data.
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AI-Assisted goods receipt analysis
DE KI-gestützte Wareneingangsanalyse Execution and trackingA function that checks delivery documents attached to a consignment order with AI. Using the Document Information Extraction service with generative AI, it extracts header, item and reference data and inserts them into the consignment order, aiming to reduce manual checks at the gate.
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Air cargo security
ACS DE Luftfrachtsicherheit Freight orderA TM function that helps ensure official air cargo security requirements are met before transport.
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Air cargo security in business document processing
ACS DE Luftfrachtsicherheit bei der Geschäftsbelegabwicklung Freight orderDescribes how the air cargo security check works while documents are processed: the system checks that required security data is entered and that the security statuses of related documents are compatible.
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Air freight
Freight orderTransportation by air, which SAP TM handles mainly through air freight bookings and air forwarding orders.
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Air freight bookings for shippers
DE Luftfrachtbuchungen für Verlader (Auslieferung) Freight orderThe scenario for shippers who manage outbound air freight in TM, as part of multimodal transportation with several stages and modes.
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Air freight charge calculation
DE Berechnen der Kosten für Luftfracht Charges and settlementAir freight charge calculation lets TM calculate air freight charges either from TACT rates published by IATA, following TACT rules, or from contract rates in standard rate tables.
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Air Freight-Specific consolidation processes
DE Luftfrachtspezifische Konsolidierungsprozesse Order and demandProcesses in Forwarding Order Management for consolidating air cargo: several forwarding orders or HAWBs can be combined in one air freight booking or MAWB, for example as gateway consolidation.
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Air waybill
AWB Freight orderThe transport document of air freight.
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Air waybill direct cost pull
DE Direkte Kostenübernahme aus Air Waybill Charges and settlementAir waybill direct cost pull transfers charge lines from the air waybill charge item to the forwarding side, so that execution costs become the basis for settling with customers or the internal organisation.
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Allocation
Carrier and tenderingIn SAP TM, a transportation allocation stores the capacity agreed with a carrier for a geographical area with specific means of transport, or for specific departures of a schedule.
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Allocation analysis
DE Analyse: Kontingent Carrier and tenderingOverview page for shipper transportation managers showing transportation allocation KPIs for the current and previous month: weight, volume and amounts (net, gross, minimum, maximum) and total and average utilisation.
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App extensibility: Freight order management
DE App-Erweiterbarkeit: Frachtauftragsmanagement (Key-User) Freight orderThe key user options for extending the freight order management apps in the Public Cloud: Manage Freight Orders, Manage Ocean Freight Bookings, Manage Air Freight Bookings and Manage Freight Units.
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App extensibility: Manage locations (Key user)
DE App-Erweiterbarkeit: Lokationen verwalten (Anwendungsexperte) Master data and cross-processIn the Public Cloud edition, key users can extend the Manage Locations app with custom fields.
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Application log
Master data and cross-processLog in which TM stores system messages from processing, separate from what is shown on the user interface.
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Appointment
DE Termin Freight orderA time window defined in the freight order for when pick-up or delivery at the customer is to take place, with start and end times.
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Approval check
DE Genehmigungsprüfung Order and demandA workflow-based check that tests whether a forwarding order or forwarding quotation stays within value ranges defined in a condition, and triggers an approval workflow when documents are saved.
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Archiving
Master data and cross-processMoving completed TM business documents out of the active database.
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Arrival
Execution and trackingThe point at which a transport reaches a stop.
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Attributes for process control
DE Attribute zur Prozesssteuerung Order and demandHeader attributes in a forwarding order or forwarding quotation, such as transportation mode, shipping type, movement type, traffic direction and air waybill type, that steer how the order is created and executed.
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Authorizations
DE Berechtigungen Master data and cross-processSAP Help topic on user authorisation in TM. Access is controlled by authorisation objects that are based either on business documents, with fields mapped one-to-one to document fields on the root node of the underlying BOPF object, or on an authority context using the field TM_CONTEXT. Checks are defined and activated at business-object level in transaction SU21, and SAP delivers the TM objects under object class SCTS.
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Auto-Confirmation profile
DE Profil für automatische Bestätigung Order and demandA user-specific set of criteria used when organisational units interact, in particular customer service and gateway.
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Automated processing of delivery document data
DE Automatische Verarbeitung von Lieferbelegdaten Execution and trackingExtraction of delivery document data with generative AI as part of AI-assisted goods receipt analysis.
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Automatic attachment creation
DE Automatische Erstellung von Anlagen Master data and cross-processConfiguration that makes TM attach output documents automatically to a freight document when they are generated through the post-processing framework (PPF).
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Automatic change management for forwarding settlements
DE Automatisches Änderungsmanagement für Speditionsabrechnungen Charges and settlementThis describes how a logistics service provider implements forwarding order changes depending on the settlement stage.
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Automatic change management for freight settlements
DE Automatisches Änderungsmanagement für Frachtabrechnungen Charges and settlementThis covers changes to freight orders, freight bookings or service orders after a freight settlement document exists, typically following a dispute with the service provider.
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Automatic change management process for settlements
DE Automatischer Änderungsmanagementprozess für Abrechnungen Charges and settlementThis process handles changes to orders after settlement documents already exist.
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Automatic consignment building
DE Automatische Erzeugung von Sendungen Freight orderA function that lets the system build consignment orders for a freight order automatically by grouping its freight units.
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Automatic derivation of item statuses
DE Automatische Ableitung von Positionsstatus Execution and trackingA function that reports item statuses such as Loaded and Unloaded automatically when the shipping point status is set to Checked Out or Departed, or the warehouse stop to Loading Completed or Unloading Completed.
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Automatic freight cost confirmation and posting
DE Automatische Frachtkostenbestätigung und -buchung Charges and settlementA function that confirms and posts freight costs automatically during freight document processing.
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Automatic freight unit building
Order and demandAutomatic freight unit building is a setting that decides whether freight units are created automatically when a relevant business document, such as an order or delivery, is saved, or whether freight unit building has to be triggered separately.
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Automatic load planning
DE Automatische Laderaumplanung Freight orderAlso called load optimisation: the optimiser for load planning and load consolidation creates a load plan for a business document, respecting height, width, length and weight limits of the loading space and, for vehicles with two axle groups, maximum axle load.
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Automatic planning
DE Automatische Planung Freight orderThe umbrella for TM's optimiser-based planning functions: vehicle scheduling and routing (VSR) optimisation, load consolidation and load planning.
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Automatic reassignment of package items
DE Automatische Neuzuordnung von Packstückpositionen Execution and trackingA transit warehousing function in which TM automatically reassigns unexpected package items reported by EWM. After unloading is finished and the truck has left, EWM sends a loading appointment notification; if it contains package items other than the planned ones and TM is configured not to create discrepancies, TM moves those items, for example from another freight order to the freight order named in the message.
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Automatic recalculation of cost pull charges in forwarding orders
DE Automatische Neuberechnung der Kostenübernahmekosten in Speditionsaufträgen Charges and settlementIn a cost pull scenario, when charges change in a freight order or freight booking, the system recalculates the cost pull charges in the related forwarding orders.
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Automatic status updates
DE Automatische Statusaktualisierungen (einfaches Szenario) Execution and trackingThe logic by which setting one status in a freight document makes the system update related statuses.
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Automatic tendering
Carrier and tenderingVariant of freight tendering in which the system runs the tendering process for a road freight order or ocean freight booking without the tendering manager driving each step, for example in background execution together with carrier selection.
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Award confirmation
DE Vergabebestätigung Carrier and tenderingAn optional step in strategic freight procurement where carriers give a soft confirmation of capacities allocated to them before the business share is awarded in a freight agreement.
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Award summary
DE Vergabeübersicht Carrier and tenderingA tab in the freight agreement RFQ master that summarises the logistical information with graphs.
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SAP APO
SAP APO Master data and cross-processSAP Advanced Planning and Optimization, part of SAP SCM. Current SAP Help refers to SAP APO documentation for Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS) dynamic route determination, noting that it does not support compartments.
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