SAP TM glossary: C
126 terms in plain words, with the official German SAP term. Key terms link to their own page.
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Calculation base
Charges and settlementA calculation base is the set of data on which rates are maintained in a freight agreement or rate table, for example gross weight, net volume, destination location or ownership type.
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Calculation date type
Charges and settlementSetting that defines which date the system uses as the reference for charge calculation, that is, for rate validity, the exchange rate and agreement validity.
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Calculation level
Charges and settlementThe calculation level states the level of a business document at which charges are calculated: header, item or stage.
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Calculation method
Charges and settlementA calculation method lets the system calculate transportation charges according to a specific logic, for example break-weight, deficit weight, standard or clipping.
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Calculation option
Charges and settlementThe calculation option is a settlement profile setting that controls how charges are proposed when a further forwarding or freight settlement document is created after a first one.
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Calculation profile
Charges and settlementA calculation profile is the central place for the settings the system uses when calculating transportation charges.
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Calculation resolution base
Charges and settlementThe calculation resolution base is a setting on calculation sheet lines that determines the level at which the system determines rates, for example item level or container level.
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Calculation rule
Charges and settlementA calculation rule can be assigned to a calculation sheet line item to define how the amount is calculated, as an alternative to a rate table.
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Calculation sheet
Charges and settlementA calculation sheet is a hierarchical table used to calculate transportation charges.
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Calculation type
Charges and settlementThe calculation type indicates whether a value in a rate table is absolute or relative.
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Calendar resource
DE Kalenderressource Master data and cross-processA resource that is assigned to a calendar and optionally to a shift, used to define operating times of locations.
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Capacities and utilization in rail freight orders
DE Kapazitäten und Auslastung in Bahnfrachtaufträgen Freight orderDescribes how the system determines capacities and utilisation in rail freight orders.
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Capacity decrease
DE Kapazitätsabnahme Master data and cross-processA setting that reduces the usable capacity of a vehicle resource, including passive ones, when it stops at several intermediate stops and partitions separate goods for different customers.
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Capacity demand and rates
DE Kapazitätsbedarf und Tarifpreise Carrier and tenderingA single user interface for capacity demand and rates when negotiating freight agreement RFQs with carriers.
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Capacity selection settings
Master data and cross-processSettings that define which resources, such as trucks, trailers and containers, are selected for planning.
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Cargo left behind at Port/Airport
DE Fracht am Hafen/Flughafen zurücklassen Execution and trackingHandling of cargo that reached the port or airport of loading but could not be shipped on the planned voyage or flight, for example because of a capacity shortage.
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Cargo management
DE Frachtmanagement Freight orderA freight order management function to distribute freight units within one freight order or booking: over several containers (ocean booking), unit load devices (air booking), compartments (freight order) or packages (package units).
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Carrier
Carrier and tenderingA business partner that performs transportation services; in SAP TM, carriers are business partners with the business partner role Carrier.
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Carrier categorization
DE Spediteurtypen Carrier and tenderingA function to distinguish carrier categories, such as carrier, subsidiary and agent, and the related business partners in freight order management.
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Carrier collaboration
DE Zusammenarbeit mit Spediteuren Carrier and tenderingFunctions that let a shipper work with carriers in TM in SAP S/4HANA even if the carrier does not use TM. With access set up through collaboration users linked to carrier business partners, carriers can for example respond to freight agreement RFQs or confirm freight orders.
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Carrier determination
DE Spediteurermittlung Carrier and tenderingA function that determines one carrier automatically for freight units, consignment orders and freight orders using simple rules.
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Carrier invoice
DE Spediteurrechnung Charges and settlementIn an invoice submission process, a carrier invoice is the invoice your service provider submits against one or more freight orders after executing them, and it forms the basis of settlement.
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Carrier notification process management
DE Verwaltung des Spediteurbenachrichtigungsprozesses Carrier and tenderingThe function that manages how carriers are notified about tendering events by e-mail or SMS, such as publication of freight RFQs, cancellation of tendering, or award or rejection of a freight quotation.
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Carrier profile
DE Spediteurprofil Carrier and tenderingA profile describing the transportation capabilities of a carrier, that is a business partner with the role Carrier.
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Carrier ranking
Carrier and tenderingA ranked list of carriers held in a document, for example in an ocean freight booking, that can be used to propose carriers in the tendering plan.
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Carrier selection
DE Spediteurauswahl Carrier and tenderingThe function that assigns suitable carriers to subcontractable documents such as freight orders or freight bookings, manually or automatically.
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Carrier selection settings
Carrier and tenderingSettings that control how carrier selection runs, including the process it performs: regular carrier selection, tendering, or determination of direct shipment options.
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CDS view
Master data and cross-processCore Data Services views are the data sources behind TM analytical overview pages; SAP Help describes overview pages built on two CDS views each, such as C_FrtOrdExecutionStsQ for freight order execution monitoring.
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Change controller
Freight orderFunction that checks whether freight orders, freight units, freight bookings, transportation units or service orders have changed and decides how the system processes those changes.
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Charge calculation
DE Kostenberechnung Charges and settlementCharge calculation determines the charges for transporting goods between locations based on rates maintained in rate tables, including local ones.
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Charge calculation and settlement
DE Kostenberechnung und -abrechnung Charges and settlementIn the warehouse billing context, TM calculates charges for warehouse services used and settles them in Sales and Distribution (SD).
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Charge calculation for air freight bookings
DE Kostenberechnung für Luftfrachtbuchungen Charges and settlementCharge calculation specific to air freight bookings, which carry service charges for logistics service providers or header carriers at header level and charges for invoicing carriers at stage level.
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Charge calculation for ocean freight bookings
DE Kostenberechnung für Seefrachtbuchungen Charges and settlementCharge calculation specific to ocean freight bookings, which carry service charges for header carriers or logistics service providers at header level and charges for invoicing carriers at stage level.
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Charge calculation for rail freight orders
DE Kostenberechnung für Bahnfrachtaufträge Charges and settlementCharge calculation for rail freight orders in which each stage can have a different invoicing carrier.
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Charge calculation of freight bookings for stage invoicing carriers
DE Kostenberechnung von Frachtbuchungen für auf Abschnittsebene rechnungsstellende Spediteure Charges and settlementCalculation of freight charges in freight bookings for each stage invoicing carrier and for the header carrier, based on the freight agreement determined for each of them.
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Charge calculation of warehouse services
DE Kostenberechnung von Lagerleistungen Charges and settlementWhen a warehouse billing measurement (WBM) is distributed from Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) to TM, TM creates a corresponding service order or forwarding order.
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Charge calculation overview
DE Kostenberechnungsübersicht Charges and settlementSAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition overview of how transportation charges are calculated.
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Charge category
Charges and settlementA charge category classifies charges at a level above the individual charge type, with charge subcategory as a further level.
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Charge correction advice management
CCAD DE Charge-Correction-Advice-Management Charges and settlementThis process lets a logistics service provider create a charge correction advice document (CCAD) to correct errors in invoices received from a carrier for air freight services.
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Charge elements
Charges and settlementCharge elements are entries within the charge hierarchy of a freight document, sitting below charge items.
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Charge estimation
DE Kostenschätzung Charges and settlementCharge estimation lets you estimate freight, forwarding and internal charges for a single route from minimal input, for the whole route or for individual stages.
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Charge management and service product catalogs
DE Kostenmanagement und Serviceproduktkataloge Charges and settlementCharge Management and Service Product Catalogs is the TM component in which you set up the master data used to calculate transportation charges such as revenues, costs and profits.
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Charge management settings for air freight
DE Kostenmanagementeinstellungen für Luftfracht Charges and settlementThis is the overview of charge management master data and Customizing settings needed when TM is used for air freight.
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Charge type
DE Kostenarten Charges and settlementA charge type classifies charge lines in calculation sheets and rate tables, and this classification strongly influences how the system calculates the charge.
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Charge usage
Charges and settlementCharge usage is an attribute of a calculation sheet that states whom the calculated charges are meant for, with values such as Customer, Customer and Service Provider, All, or Internal.
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Chargeable weight
Charges and settlementChargeable weight is the weight used as the basis for rating, which can differ from the gross weight.
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Charges grid
DE Kostentabelle Charges and settlementHierarchical table on the Charges tab of a business document that holds the charge calculation result, made of charge items and charge lines.
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Charges overview
DE Kostenübersicht Charges and settlementThe charges overview displays the results of charge calculation on the Charges or Internal Charges tab of business documents such as forwarding quotations and orders, freight orders, freight bookings, service orders and settlement documents.
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Charges template
DE Kostenvorlage Charges and settlementA charges template is a freight agreement without a carrier that contains the charge types possible for freight documents.
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Check-in
Execution and trackingAn execution event recording that a vehicle has arrived and been admitted at a location, for example at the gate.
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Classification of goods
DE Klassifizierung von Gütern Master data and cross-processThe classification of goods to be transported (commodities) by characteristics of your choice, using commodity codes that can be grouped by commodity code type.
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Classification of resources
DE Klassifizierung von Ressourcen Master data and cross-processGrouping of resources with the same characteristics or type, such as vehicle or handling resources, into resource classes.
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Classify products - commodity codes for transportation
DE Produkte klassifizieren - Commodity Codes für das Transportwesen Master data and cross-processA Public Cloud app (F7151) for assigning commodity codes to products.
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CMR
Freight orderA road waybill based on the CMR standard, used for road transport.
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Co-Load
DE Beiladung Freight orderAn air freight process in which a logistics service provider ships via another provider, the consolidator, using the consolidator's air waybill stock and contract instead of booking directly with the airline.
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CO2 emissions
DE Nachhaltigkeit Master data and cross-processCarbon dioxide emissions caused by transportation.
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Collective rate determination
DE Ermittlung von Sammeltarifpreisen Charges and settlementCollective rate determination applies when you create a collective settlement document from several forwarding orders or freight orders.
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Collective settlement
DE Sammelabrechnung Charges and settlementCollective settlement groups several freight documents into one freight settlement document (FSD) that is posted to Materials Management (MM) for further processing in financials.
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Command line planning
DE Planung per Befehlszeile Freight orderKeyboard-based planning in the transportation cockpit: you enter commands of the form input element ID – target element ID, using the unique element IDs shown in the cockpit tables, instead of using the mouse.
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Commodity codes assigned to items locally
DE Positionen lokal zugeordnete Commodity Codes Master data and cross-processAn option in which commodity codes are maintained as value lists in TM Customizing and assigned directly to items.
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Commodity codes assigned to material master
DE Dem Materialstamm zugeordnete Commodity Codes Master data and cross-processAn option in which commodity codes come from a source based on SAP Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) in the material master.
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Commodity codes for transportation
STCC DE Commodity Codes für das Transportwesen Master data and cross-processIn the Public Cloud edition, classification codes for goods created from numbering schemes and assigned to products.
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Communication channels in tendering
DE Kommunikationskanäle bei der Ausschreibung Carrier and tenderingThe channels available for exchanging tendering information with carriers, including e-mail and B2B messages.
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Communication of settlements with SAP ERP
DE Kommunikation von Abrechnungen mit SAP ERP Charges and settlementA background function that processes the actions for communicating freight, forwarding and internal settlements and credit memos to SAP ERP, as well as credit management updates from TM to SAP Credit Management.
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Communication scenarios
DE Kommunikationsszenarios Master data and cross-processIn SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, TM integration is delivered as predefined communication scenarios, each describing how two communication partners exchange data through inbound and/or outbound services and supported authentication methods.
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Company code and plant in posting freight settlements
DE Buchungskreis und Werk beim Buchen von Frachtabrechnungen Charges and settlementIn freight settlement, the company code is used to book freight accruals in financial accounting, and a plant is needed to create the service purchase order during the posting of a freight settlement document.
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Company codes
DE Buchungskreise Charges and settlementCompany codes are used in freight documents, freight units and transportation units to support freight settlement when transport services are subcontracted to carriers or transportation service providers.
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Compartment
DE Ladeabteil Master data and cross-processA part of the loading space of a vehicle or trailer, used to keep goods apart, for example refrigerated goods and fruit, or different fuels in one tanker.
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Compatibility
Freight orderWhether objects may be combined in transport.
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Condition
DE Bedingung Master data and cross-processConfigurable rule object that TM uses to determine dependent values, for example to filter freight units, determine freight unit building rules, incompatibilities, the sales organisation, rate tables and agreements, means of transport or package type assignments.
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Condition type
Master data and cross-processClassification of a TM condition that defines the area in which the system takes the condition into account, which input values are available and which output values it determines.
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Confirmation and completion of a forwarding order
DE Bestätigen und Abschließen eines Speditionsauftrags Order and demandThe steps after a forwarding order is created and edited: confirming its data to the ordering party and later closing it.
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Confirmation of forwarding orders
DE Bestätigung von Speditionsaufträgen Order and demandA background processing function that confirms forwarding orders automatically instead of manually in the worklist apps.
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Consideration of equipment data during FU or TU creation
DE Berücksichtigung von Equipmentdaten bei FE-/TE-Erzeugung Order and demandA function that takes equipment groups, equipment types and their physical properties into account when freight units and transportation units are created.
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Consideration of scheduling constraints
DE Berücksichtigung von Terminierungsrandbedingungen Freight orderA function that lets scheduling and VSR optimisation consider extra constraints so that trip durations are extended, for example to allow driver breaks.
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Consignee
Master data and cross-processThe party that receives the goods.
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Consignment orders
DE Sendungen Freight orderA business document that groups transportation requirements sharing the same source and destination location, shipper, ship-to party and Incoterm.
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Consignment orders for customer Pick-Up
DE Sendungen für die Kundenselbstabholung Freight orderConsignment orders that a logistics service provider creates when the customer organises the pick-up.
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Consistency check for scenario template
DE Konsistenzprüfung für Szenariovorlage Master data and cross-processCheck in the scenario builder that verifies the test data in a scenario template is consistent, meaning that objects referenced by other objects exist in the template.
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Consistency check of package building constraints
DE Konsistenzprüfung der Randbedingungen für die Erzeugung von Packstücken Order and demandA report that checks whether package building constraints are defined consistently, with checks grouped in categories such as products, package type assignments, normalised quantities and integration.
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Consolidation
Freight orderCombining goods or transportation demands into shared capacity.
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Constraints and costs settings
DE Randbedingungen und Kosteneinstellungen Master data and cross-processSettings in which you define freight-unit-dependent and equipment-dependent costs and constraints for optimisation.
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Constraints for VSR optimization
DE Randbedingungen für die VSR-Optimierung Freight orderThe rules VSR optimisation respects when assigning freight units to capacities.
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Consumption of Order-Based transportation requirements
OTR, DTR DE Verrechnung auftragsbasierter Transportbedarfe Order and demandWhen TM creates a delivery-based transportation requirement (DTR) from an SAP ERP delivery whose order was already sent to TM, the DTR takes over the freight units of the related order-based transportation requirement (OTR).
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Container
Freight orderIn SAP TM a container appears as an item with equipment group and type, for example a 20-foot container, in forwarding orders and freight bookings.
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Container freight station
CFS Master data and cross-processLocation where freight is consolidated and deconsolidated for container transport; TM offers it as a standard location type.
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Container unit
DE Containereinheit Freight orderA TM document that models the logistical handling of one or more containers, each of which can contain several freight units.
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Context determination
DE Kontextermittlung Freight orderA transportation cockpit function that widens the selection to resources, drivers and documents linked within the planning horizon to what you selected, for example the trucks, drivers, containers and trailer units of selected road freight orders.
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Context determination in VSR optimization
DE Kontextermittlung in der VSR-Optimierung Freight orderAutomatic inclusion of all dependent objects, meaning freight units and road freight orders, when VSR optimisation starts, so that the plan is consistent with dependencies such as incompatibilities, time windows and capacity decrease.
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Continuous move
DE Anschlusstransport Carrier and tenderingAn optimisation option in automatic carrier selection that tries to combine subcontractable documents, such as freight orders, into a continuous move for one carrier.
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Control key
Order and demandA Customizing setting that determines which documents in a document chain are integrated into TM. Together with a logistics integration profile it is assigned, for example, to combinations of sales document type, sales area and shipping condition to make sales documents relevant for transportation planning.
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Controlled change process for freight and forwarding settlements
DE Gesteuerter Änderungsprozess für Fracht- und Speditionsabrechnungen Charges and settlementWhen settled charge lines change, the system updates the invoicing status of the affected freight orders, freight bookings, service orders or forwarding orders.
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Conversational planning
DE Dialogorientierte Planung Freight orderAn AI-assisted feature in the transportation cockpit that lets planners carry out planning operations in natural language using generative AI. It needs Intelligent Scenario Lifecycle Management setup and an SAP BTP service key, and SAP Help states it is available only in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.
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Coordination between customer service and gateway agent
DE Abstimmung zwischen Kundendienst- und Gateway-Mitarbeiter Order and demandA process in which a customer service agent assigns a forwarding order to a freight booking and a gateway agent then confirms or rejects that assignment.
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Cost analysis
DE Kostenanalyse Charges and settlementOverview page for transportation managers or cost owners with cost KPIs for the current and previous month, analysed by invoicing week, transportation mode category, carrier, charge type, purchasing organisation, source and destination country or region.
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Cost calculation for continuous moves
DE Kostenberechnung bei Anschlusstransporten Carrier and tenderingThe way carrier selection computes costs when documents form a continuous move.
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Cost distribution
Charges and settlementCost distribution allocates the charges of a freight order, freight booking or service order to underlying items such as forwarding orders, deliveries or delivery items.
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Cost distribution for LSPs
DE Kostenverteilung für LDLs Charges and settlementFor a logistics service provider, one organisation typically takes customer orders as forwarding orders while another executes them with freight orders, settled through standard charge calculation and freight settlement.
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Cost distribution for shippers
DE Kostenverteilung für Verlader Charges and settlementFor a shipper, TM creates freight units from purchase orders, sales orders and deliveries and plans them in freight orders or freight bookings.
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Cost distribution in service orders for shippers and LSPs
DE Kostenverteilung in Serviceaufträgen für Verlader und LDLs Charges and settlementA service order is linked to a freight document or freight document item, and the system distributes its cost to the eventual consumer of the service.
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Cost distribution management
DE Kostenverteilungsmanagement Charges and settlementCost distribution management allocates freight costs at charge element level across several charge sources.
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Cost distribution profile
Charges and settlementA cost distribution profile is a Customizing setting (Basic Functions > Cost Distribution > Define Cost Distribution Profiles) that holds the distribution level and distribution rules used to distribute freight costs.
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Cost pull
DE Kostenübernahme Charges and settlementCost pull uses execution costs as a basis for settling with customers or the internal organisation by transferring distributed costs from the freight side to the forwarding side.
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Cost-Based selection of packaging materials
DE Kostenbasierte Selektion von Packmitteln Order and demandA function of the package building optimiser that selects the most cost-effective combination of packaging materials for each set of items, based on packaging material costs.
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Credit limit check
DE Kreditlimitprüfung Order and demandA function that assesses the risk of losses on receivables from business partners in a forwarding order, using integration with SAP Credit Management.
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Credit memos
DE Gutschriften Charges and settlementCredit memos record credits for reasons such as damaged goods, transport delays, missed service levels or overcharges.
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Credit memos for forwarding orders
DE Gutschriften für Speditionsaufträge Charges and settlementA credit memo for a forwarding order gives a customer a credit in forwarding settlement when you have over-invoiced transportation services.
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Credit memos for freight orders
DE Gutschriften für Frachtaufträge Charges and settlementA credit memo for a freight order obtains a credit from a carrier in freight settlement when you have overpaid or over-accrued for a transportation service.
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Critical quantity
Order and demandA field of the freight unit building rule that names the quantity, such as gross weight, that is decisive when freight units are built.
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Cross-Delivery handling units
HU DE Lieferübergreifende Handling Units Execution and trackingHandling units such as cartons or pallets that are packed with items from two or more deliveries, supported in the TM-EWM integration for outbound processes.
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Customer analysis
DE Kundenanalyse Charges and settlementCustomer analysis lets you review the transportation history of shippers and logistics service providers to which you send rate proposals for forwarding agreement quotation items.
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Customer billing
DE Invoice Integration Charges and settlementCustomer billing is the invoicing of customers for transportation charges.
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Customer freight invoice request
CFIR Charges and settlementBusiness object for customer-side freight settlement in TM, listed alongside the supplier freight invoice request (SFIR) as its counterpart.
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Customer freight quotation
Order and demandA price offer for transportation made to a customer.
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Customer returns: Inbound process
DE Kundenretouren: Eingangsprozess Order and demandA sample process in Advanced Shipping and Receiving for bringing customer returns back in.
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Customer/Vendor integration
CVI DE Debitoren-/Kreditorenintegration Master data and cross-processIn SAP S/4HANA the business partner is the central object for partner data, and Customer/Vendor Integration creates customer or vendor master data from a business partner where needed.
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Customizing
Master data and cross-processThe system configuration area in which TM settings are maintained; SAP Help repeatedly refers to Customizing for Transportation Management for settings such as CO2 emission parameters per vehicle type, customs profiles or prerequisites for carrier profiles.
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Customizing for CO2 emissions calculation
DE Customizing für die Berechnung von CO2-Emissionen Master data and cross-processCustomizing in which the parameters for calculating CO2 emissions of a vehicle type are set, in CO2 equivalents (CO2e).
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Customs
Execution and trackingCustoms processing in SAP TM is configured in Customizing, which controls how customs relevance is determined, which steps are triggered and which customs statuses are shown in business documents.
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Customs activities and profiles
DE Zollaktivitäten und -profile Master data and cross-processCustomizing objects that control customs processing in TM: customs activities stand for customs processes such as export or transit, and customs profiles bundle these activities.
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Customs groups
DE Zollgruppen Master data and cross-processA customs group bundles freight unit items that need one customs declaration, and at least one group is needed to run a customs process.
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Customs relevance check
DE Zollrelevanzprüfung Master data and cross-processA check assigned to a customs activity that decides whether a business document is relevant for a customs process such as export or transit.
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Customs statuses and cumulated customs statuses
DE Zollstatus und kumulierte Zollstatus Master data and cross-processStatuses that the system sets at the steps of customs processing, for example the result of the relevance check or progress such as an export declaration being requested or approved.
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Customs transit discharge
DE Zollversandbeendigung Execution and trackingA process for obtaining approval from SAP Global Trade Services to unload a freight order, based on the Customs Reference Number (CRN).
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Customs update for export declarations
DE Zollaktualisierung für Ausfuhranmeldungen Master data and cross-processA setting on a customs profile that lets users change an existing export declaration in update mode instead of cancelling it and creating a new one.
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Cut-off
Freight orderA deadline before departure by which cargo or data must be available.
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