SAP TM glossary: D
71 terms in plain words, with the official German SAP term. Key terms link to their own page.
-
Dangerous goods
DG Master data and cross-processGoods subject to transport regulations because of their hazards.
Member details
-
Dangerous goods checks
DG checks DE Gefahrgutprüfung Master data and cross-processChecks that make sure dangerous goods are transported in line with the applicable rules, run automatically when a business document is saved or triggered manually.
Member details
-
Dangerous goods print forms
DE Druckformulare für Gefahrgut Freight orderSAP-delivered default templates for documents that must accompany dangerous goods transports, printed from freight orders or freight bookings via the PPF output management framework.
Member details
-
Dangerous goods processing based on product compliance
DE Gefahrgutabwicklung basierend auf Produkt-Compliance Master data and cross-processA variant of dangerous goods handling in TM that takes DG data from Product Compliance.
Member details
-
Dangerous goods processing based on PS&S
DE Gefahrgutverarbeitung basierend auf PS&S Master data and cross-processA variant of dangerous goods handling in TM in which the checks run in TM and use DG data from Product Safety and Stewardship (PS&S).
Member details
-
Data management
DE Datenverwaltung Master data and cross-processSAP Help section that groups the functions TM offers for managing its data; the page itself only points on to the topic Data Management in Transportation Management.
Member details
-
Data replication framework
DRF DE Datenreplikations-Framework Master data and cross-processA framework for replicating master data such as business partners, products and locations between source and target systems.
Member details
-
Dates/Times in freight order management
DE Termine im Frachtauftragsmanagement Freight orderAn overview of the dates and times used in freight order management, including acceptable and requested dates/times (pick-up and delivery windows), appointments, planned departure and arrival, and loading/unloading or coupling/uncoupling windows.
Member details
-
Decision table
Master data and cross-processTable inside a condition in which input values for the data access definitions are mapped to output values.
Member details
-
Deconsolidation
Freight orderBreaking up consolidated cargo so that the goods of different customers can be delivered separately.
Member details
-
Default route
DE Standardroute Master data and cross-processA predefined sequence of transshipment locations, with transportation mode, carrier, schedule and other details per stage, that the system considers as a possible route between two locations.
Member details
-
Default units of measure
Master data and cross-processUnits of measure that are proposed by default, for example for items.
Member details
-
Delay
Execution and trackingA delay is an execution event signalling that a transport is running later than planned.
Member details
-
Delivery creation
DE Lieferungserstellung Freight orderTM can trigger the creation of outbound, inbound and customer returns deliveries in Logistics Execution.
Member details
-
Delivery creation from TM
Order and demandA process in which TM proposes inbound or outbound deliveries based on planning results, such as consolidation and dates, and sends the proposal to Logistics Execution, where the delivery is created.
Member details
-
Delivery deletion
DE Löschen von Lieferungen Order and demandAn Advanced Shipping and Receiving feature for deleting LE inbound and outbound deliveries from TM in SAP S/4HANA in embedded scenarios.
Member details
-
Delivery deletion initiated from TM
DE Über TM initiierte Lieferungslöschung Order and demandIn SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition you can delete inbound, outbound and customer returns deliveries in Logistics Execution from the Manage Freight Units app using Delete Delivery.
Member details
-
Delivery integration
Order and demandIntegration of inbound and outbound deliveries with TM so that transportation demand and planning reflect delivery documents.
Member details
-
Delivery profile
DE Lieferprofil Order and demandA group of user-specific settings that the system applies when deliveries are created from TM. It controls, for example, whether existing planning results are fixed, how deliveries are cut for unplanned freight units (per freight unit, order or order item), incompatibilities that keep freight units apart, and whether blocked freight units or freight orders are included.
Member details
-
Delivery proposal
Order and demandA proposal for inbound or outbound deliveries that TM creates from planning results and sends to SAP ERP or Logistics Execution, where the deliveries are created.
Member details
-
Delivery split
DE Liefersplit Execution and trackingDividing a delivery into more than one delivery, with TM adapting the related freight units.
Member details
-
Delivery splits and updates
DE Liefersplits und -aktualisierungen Order and demandIn SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, when freight units are planned on the basis of a delivery, TM can request an outbound delivery split in Logistics Execution and update inbound and outbound deliveries.
Member details
-
Delivery splits and updates in logistics execution triggered by TM
DE Von TM angestoßene Liefersplits und -aktualisierungen in Logistics Execution Order and demandIn the embedded (internal) integration, TM can request a split of an outbound delivery in Logistics Execution based on planning changes and can update inbound and outbound deliveries.
Member details
-
Delivery splits and updates triggered by TM
DE Von TM angestoßene Liefersplits und -aktualisierungen Order and demandIn a side-by-side setup with SAP ERP, TM can request a split of an outbound delivery based on planning changes and update dates in it, such as goods issue, loading, transportation start and delivery date.
Member details
-
Delivery splits triggered by logistics execution (LE)
DE Von Logistics Execution (LE) angestoßene Lieferungssplits Order and demandAn outbound delivery split made in Logistics Execution or in EWM (processed in LE) for which TM already holds freight units.
Member details
-
Delivery splits triggered by SAP ERP
DE Von SAP ERP angestoßene Liefersplits Order and demandIn a side-by-side setup, an outbound or inbound delivery is split in SAP ERP or SAP EWM (processed in ERP first) and the change is transferred to TM. A delivery split/update type defined in Customizing can determine how freight unit planning is updated, but it is only checked when other criteria, such as the triggering application, do not decide this.
Member details
-
Delivery splits, updates, and deletions initiated from LE/WM
DE Über LE/LV initiierte Lieferungssplits, -aktualisierungen und -löschungen Order and demandIn SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, changes made to a delivery in Logistics Execution or Warehouse Management are checked by the system and reflected in the related freight units.
Member details
-
Delivery type
Master data and cross-processClassification of deliveries in logistics execution that TM integration uses as a criterion.
Member details
-
Delivery update and split
Order and demandAn ERP integration scenario for side-by-side setups that lets TM update and split outbound deliveries in ERP. It is configured as service group connections in an integration scenario configuration, one from ERP to TM and one from TM to ERP.
Member details
-
Delivery updates
DE Aktualisierung von Lieferungen Order and demandAn Advanced Shipping and Receiving feature for changing specific TM-relevant header and item fields in LE outbound deliveries, also when deliveries have been passed to EWM and freight units exist.
Member details
-
Delivery updates in TM triggered by logistics execution
DE Von Logistics Execution angestoßene Lieferungsaktualisierungen in TM Order and demandIn Advanced Shipping and Receiving, specific fields of an LE outbound delivery can be changed after freight units exist and the delivery has been distributed to EWM, in embedded and decentralised scenarios.
Member details
-
Delivery window
DE Zeitfenster für Anlieferung Freight orderThe window around the requested delivery date/time within which delivery is acceptable, defined by tolerances for early and late delivery with and without penalty costs.
Member details
-
Delivery-based planning
Order and demandPlanning transport on the basis of deliveries rather than orders.
Member details
-
Delivery-Based transportation requirement
DTR DE Lieferungsbasierter Transportbedarf Order and demandA TM document that represents transportation demand from a delivery created in SAP ERP; each one corresponds to a single delivery.
Member details
-
Delivery-based transportation requirement type
DTR type Order and demandThe document type of a delivery-based transportation requirement (DTR), defined in Customizing.
Member details
-
Demand horizon
DE Bedarfshorizont Freight orderThe period whose demands are considered in planning: freight units and freight orders whose pick-up or delivery date/time falls inside it are selected.
Member details
-
Departure
Execution and trackingDeparture is the point at which a means of transport leaves a stop, recorded as an execution event.
Member details
-
Depersonalization of data
DE Entpersonalisierung von Daten Master data and cross-processOption to anonymise personal data before it is used in the scenario builder, for example when data comes from a productive system.
Member details
-
Determination of direct shipment options
DE Ermittlung von Direktsendungsoptionen Carrier and tenderingA function that determines direct shipment options for each carrier and service level when freight units are created.
Member details
-
Determination of distances and durations based on selected documents
DE Ermittlung von Entfernungen und Dauern basierend auf ausgewählten Belegen Master data and cross-processA function that calculates distances and durations for the start and destination locations found in selected business documents and stores them in the distance and duration determination (DDD) buffer.
Member details
-
Determination of distances and durations based on selected geography
DE Ermittlung von Entfernungen und Dauern basierend auf einer ausgewählten Geografie Master data and cross-processA report that precalculates distances and durations for a set of start and destination locations and stores them in the DDD buffer for reuse.
Member details
-
Determination of freight unit building rules
DE Findung von Frachteinheitsbildungsregeln Order and demandThe logic by which the system finds the freight unit building rule to apply to each business document item when it creates freight units.
Member details
-
Determination of locations within a transportation zone
DE Ermittlung der Lokationen einer Transportzone Master data and cross-processA report that lists all locations contained in a transportation zone, either only those directly contained or also those contained via the zone hierarchy.
Member details
-
Determination of normalized load consumption quantities
NLQ DE Ermittlung normalisierter Laderaumverbrauchsmengen Order and demandDuring package building, the system works out normalised load consumption quantities (NLQs): how much load space a product and unit of measure take up in a top-level package.
Member details
-
Determination of package type assignments
DE Bestimmung von Packstückartzuordnungen Order and demandThe step in package building in which the system decides how best to package a product by finding package type assignment values.
Member details
-
Determination of the route
DE Festlegung der Route Order and demandSpecifying the route in a forwarding order or forwarding quotation, either as requested by the ordering party, by entering the individual stages manually, or by letting the system determine it and copying the result.
Member details
-
Determination of the valid available capacity
DE Ermitteln des geltenden Kapazitätsangebots Master data and cross-processThe process by which the system determines the capacity available at a resource at a given point in time.
Member details
-
Determination of transportation distance and transportation duration
DDD DE Ermittlung der Transportentfernung und Transportdauer Freight orderThe distance and duration determination (DDD) function that calculates the transportation distance and duration of stages in freight orders, freight bookings, transportation units and freight units.
Member details
-
Determination of transportation durations for BPS-Based scheduling
DE Ermittlung von Transportdauern für BPS-basierte Terminierung Order and demandUse of transportation requirement routing and scheduling (TRS) to determine transport durations in order-based scheduling, so that Business Process Scheduling (BPS) in advanced Available-to-Promise can schedule with them.
Member details
-
Determine logistical references automatically
DE Logistikreferenzen automatisch ermitteln Charges and settlementAn automatic match algorithm proposes logistical references for charge lines that lack them in a carrier invoice or carrier credit memo.
Member details
-
Determine NLQs based on documents
NLQ DE NLMs basierend auf Belegen ermitteln Freight orderFunction that calculates the normalised load consumption quantity (NLQ) per product and unit of measure from historical consolidation data in road freight orders.
Member details
-
Determining the distance and duration for a single transportation lane
DE Entfernung und Dauer für einzelne Transportbeziehung ermitteln Master data and cross-processA procedure to have the system propose the distance and duration of one transportation lane.
Member details
-
Deviating business partner addresses
DE Abweichende Geschäftspartneradressen Order and demandA function to overwrite, in a business document, the business partner address copied from master data, for the whole document or for individual items.
Member details
-
Dimensional weight profile
Charges and settlementA dimensional weight profile is used to calculate the chargeable weight of a product.
Member details
-
Direct creation of capacity documents and selection of schedules
DE Direkte Erstellung von Kapazitätsbelegen und Auswahl von Fahrplänen Order and demandCreating capacity documents such as freight orders, freight bookings or transportation units directly for the stages of a forwarding order, or selecting existing capacity documents and schedule departures.
Member details
-
Direct creation of freight orders
DE Direkte Erstellung von Frachtaufträgen Freight orderCreation of a freight order directly when a forwarding order or an order- or delivery-based transportation requirement is saved.
Member details
-
Direct shipment
DE Direktsendung (Direct Shipment) Freight orderIn air freight, a process carried out by the shipper and the carrier on the basis of the master air waybill, without a house air waybill and without consolidation in the main carriage.
Member details
-
Direct tendering
Carrier and tenderingA tendering process in which a road freight order or ocean freight booking is sent straight to a specified carrier without a freight RFQ. The carrier confirms or rejects it, and the system generally awards the carrier unless they reject.
Member details
-
Discrepancies and events
DE Abweichungen und Ereignisse Execution and trackingRecording of quantity discrepancies, other discrepancies and unplanned events such as delays in freight orders, freight bookings and container, trailer and railcar units.
Member details
-
Dispute case resolution and accruals update
DE Klärungsfalllösung und Rückstellungsaktualisierung Charges and settlementA dispute is resolved when you and the service provider agree on the disputed charge or logistics item, and the system then updates the freight order with the changed charges.
Member details
-
Dispute management
Charges and settlementDispute management in TM handles differences between what a requester of transportation services expects to pay and what a service provider invoices.
Member details
-
Dispute management for freight settlements
DE Klärungsmanagement für Frachtabrechnungen Charges and settlementDispute management for freight settlements helps a requester of transportation services resolve differences with a service provider collaboratively.
Member details
-
Dispute management for invoice submission
DE Klärungsmanagement für Rechnungsübermittlung Charges and settlementIn invoice submission, the system automatically evaluates an incoming service provider invoice and creates a dispute case when its values differ from those expected in the freight order, for example because of unplanned costs.
Member details
-
Dispute management with additional agreement parties
DE Klärungsmanagement mit zusätzlichen Vereinbarungspartnern Charges and settlementThis function lets you maintain several disputes in one freight document when additional agreement parties are specified in it.
Member details
-
Distance and duration determination
DDD DE Entfernungs- und Dauerermittlung (EDE) Master data and cross-processA function that determines the distance of a transportation lane, or between two locations, and the travel time of the means of transport.
Member details
-
Document assignment when execution has already started
DE Belegzuordnung, wenn die Ausführung bereits begonnen hat Execution and trackingAssigning requirement documents, such as freight units, to a capacity document like a road freight order even after its execution has started or finished.
Member details
-
Document flow
Master data and cross-processThe display of the predecessor and successor documents linked to a business document.
Member details
-
Document type
Master data and cross-processA document type (business document type) is a Customizing object that classifies a TM business document, for example a forwarding order type or a freight order type.
Member details
-
Document-Based dangerous goods records
DE Belegbasierte Gefahrgutsätze Order and demandDG data entered at item level in a forwarding order, freight order or freight booking when no DG master data exists, typically when transporting goods on behalf of customers.
Member details
-
Double-Deck and split deck resources
DE Doppelstock-Ladedeckressourcen Master data and cross-processVehicle resources with a second loading level (split deck), which TM supports in load planning with fixed and flexible variants.
Member details
-
Driver
DE Fahrer Master data and cross-processA person who can operate vehicles and carry out transport tasks based on qualifications, defined as a business partner with the role Driver.
Member details
No entries under this topic.
Go deeper as a TM Hub member
Free. On every key term: the Fiori apps and transactions, release availability and practitioner notes from the TM Hub authors.
Definitions are written in our own words and checked against SAP Help; SAP and the SAP product names are trademarks of SAP SE. This glossary is protected by copyright and by the database right (§87a ff. UrhG); systematic extraction or reuse of substantial parts is not permitted. All letters