SAP TM glossary: B
31 terms in plain words, with the official German SAP term. Key terms link to their own page.
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Back-to-Back process
DE Back-to-Back-Prozess Order and demandAn air freight process in which goods are not consolidated in the main carriage, so a back-to-back house air waybill is assigned to its own master air waybill.
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Background download of rate tables and local rate tables
DE Download von Tarifpreistabellen und lokalen Tarifpreistabellen im Hintergrund Charges and settlementThis function downloads large rate tables or local rate tables in the background when you maintain them with a spreadsheet application.
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Background planning
Freight orderRunning TM planning without user interaction, as a background planning run based on selection and planning profiles rather than interactively in the transportation cockpit.
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Background processing
DE Hintergrundverarbeitung Master data and cross-processUmbrella for TM mass processing and background jobs.
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Base freight
Charges and settlementBase freight is the basic freight charge line used in SAP Help calculation sheet examples, shown with the charge type BASE_FRT and priced from a rate table, for example by transport duration between two locations.
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Basic freight
Charges and settlementCharge for the core transport service itself, as distinct from surcharges such as bunker or currency adjustment and from pick-up or handling charges.
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Basic settings for tendering
DE Grundeinstellungen für Ausschreibung Carrier and tenderingThe prerequisites for tendering: Customizing settings for tendering and a tendering plan.
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Basic TM
Master data and cross-processSAP's name for the defined, limited set of TM functions within SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain for Transportation Management that supports a simple transportation process, equivalent to the classic LE-TRA transportation process.
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Basic TM/EWM - Inbound Advanced Shipping and Receiving (7GP)
7GP Execution and trackingSAP Best Practices scope item for an inbound Advanced Shipping and Receiving process at a manufacturer's site, for example many orders placed with one supplier over a period, run with a basic TM licence together with an EWM licence.
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Basic TM/EWM - Outbound Advanced Shipping and Receiving (7GQ)
7GQ Execution and trackingSAP Best Practices scope item for an outbound Advanced Shipping and Receiving process at a manufacturer's site that receives many customer orders, run with a basic TM licence together with an EWM licence.
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Batch split
DE Chargensplit Execution and trackingSupport in the TM–EWM integration for loading one product from several batches, with the batches determined in EWM rather than in Logistics Execution.
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Bill of lading
DE Frachtbrief (USA) Freight orderA transport document for goods in transit.
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Booking confirmation status
Freight orderA status of the freight booking that shows where the booking stands in the confirmation exchange with the carrier.
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Booking order
Freight orderA document used to book transport capacity.
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BRFplus
BRFplus Master data and cross-processBusiness Rule Framework plus, the rules engine behind TM conditions.
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BRFplus for charge management and SP catalogs
DE BRFplus für Kostenmanagement und SP-Kataloge Charges and settlementBRFplus (Business Rule Framework plus) can be linked to Charge Management and Service Product Catalogs through rules to make business decisions in automatic charge calculation.
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Broadcast tendering
DE Simultane Ausschreibung Carrier and tenderingA tendering type in which freight requests for quotation go to several preselected carriers at the same time.
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Business Add-In
BAdI Master data and cross-processEnhancement point at which customer code can be plugged into standard TM logic.
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Business Add-Ins for logistics integration
BAdI DE Business Add-Ins für Logistikintegration Master data and cross-processThe set of BAdIs available in Customizing for Transportation Management under Integration > Logistics Integration for adapting how logistics documents are integrated into TM. Examples include BAdIs for adapting error handling, for adapting incoming business transaction document data, and for changing the transient transportation request data after mapping.
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Business partner
BP DE Geschäftspartner Master data and cross-processA person, organisation or group in which a company has a business interest, maintained centrally with general data and role-specific data.
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Business partner blocking
DE Sperren von Geschäftspartnern Master data and cross-processA function to block a business partner from being assigned to forwarding quotations or forwarding orders, and to prevent forwarding settlement documents from being created.
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Business partner determination
DE Geschäftspartnerfindung Master data and cross-processA function that lets the system determine the business partners in different business document types, including for forwarding orders with specific Incoterms.
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Business role
Master data and cross-processRole assigned to a business user that determines which apps the user sees.
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Buyer's consolidation
BCO Freight orderA process in which goods from different suppliers for one consignee are consolidated into one container before the main carriage and stay together through on-carriage instead of being deconsolidated.
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Buyer's consolidation in Export/Import
BCO DE Buyer's Consolidation bei Export/Import Freight orderBuyer's consolidation (BCO) in export/import processing: export forwarding orders from different suppliers for one ship-to party are consolidated into an export freight booking and loaded into a container at the consolidation point.
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Buyer's consolidation settlement
DE Abrechnung von Buyer's Consolidation Charges and settlementIn a buyer's consolidation, a logistics service provider or carrier loads goods that a customer buys from several suppliers in one country or region into a single container before main carriage, and delivers it to the customer's location.
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SAP Business Accelerator Hub
Master data and cross-processSAP's catalogue site at api.sap.com where integration services are published and documented.
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SAP Business Network for Logistics
Carrier and tenderingA cloud-based platform for optimising logistics processes by connecting business partners and enabling real-time collaboration.
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