SAP TM glossary: S
69 terms in plain words, with the official German SAP term. Key terms link to their own page.
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Sailing schedule
Freight orderA schedule offered to the customer in an ocean freight scenario, connecting two gateways designated as container freight stations and naming the port of loading and port of discharge.
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Sales order integration
Order and demandIntegration of sales documents into TM so that outbound transport can be planned from orders.
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Sales organization
Order and demandAn organisational unit in TM organisational management with a sales function, used to sell transport services and create forwarding orders.
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SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain for Transportation Management
Master data and cross-processThe product name SAP uses for Transportation Management within SAP S/4HANA. Its functions are split into Basic TM, covered by the Enterprise Management licence, and Advanced TM, the full scope licensed through Enhanced LOB Functions.
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SAP SCM
SAP SCM Master data and cross-processSAP Supply Chain Management, the application suite on which earlier TM releases were documented.
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Scale
Master data and cross-processA scale is one dimension of a rate: it defines a parameter on which the rate depends, so a rate based on distance and weight needs one scale for distance and one for weight.
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Scale and local scale
DE Staffel und lokale Staffel Master data and cross-processA scale is a dimension of a rate that defines one parameter on which the rate depends, for example distance or weight.
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Scale maintenance
DE Staffelpflege Master data and cross-processScale maintenance is the step in which you create and maintain scales, including local ones, when setting up master data for charge calculation.
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Scenario builder
Master data and cross-processTool for quickly creating data for testing, demos and training, enabled only in non-productive systems.
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Schedule
DE Fahrplan Freight orderA sequence of stops, such as ports, airports or gateways, valid for a defined period, along which ships, trucks or planes move goods at recurring times.
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Schedule type
Master data and cross-processCustomizing setting that classifies a schedule and that you enter when creating one, for example for carrier or gateway schedules.
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Schedule-based freight document
Freight orderA freight order or freight booking that has a schedule assigned.
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Scheduling
DE Terminierung Freight orderThe function that determines start and end times for the dates of a freight order, such as departure and arrival and the pick-up and delivery of assigned freight units.
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Scope item
Master data and cross-processUnit of SAP Best Practices content activated in an SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition solution; the TM integration options available depend on which scope items are active.
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Seals
DE Siegel Execution and trackingSeals protect vehicle resources, containers or unit load devices from unauthorised access during transport.
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Security filing
Master data and cross-processTM support for the advance cargo filings that security authorities in several countries and regions require for imported goods, for example approval of US-bound ocean freight by US Customs and Border Protection before loading at the port of origin.
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Selection profile
DE Selektionsprofil Freight orderA user-specific definition of which business documents, such as forwarding orders, freight units and freight orders, are taken into account in transportation planning.
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Self-billing
ERS Charges and settlementA freight settlement process in which the service provider does not send an invoice; instead the shipper pays automatically on the basis of the charges in the freight order, freight booking or service order.
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Service charges
DE Servicekosten Charges and settlementService charges let you bill customers for additional services such as fumigation, packing and labelling, or insurance, even when these service items are not specified in the freight agreement attached to a freight order.
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Service entry sheet
SES Charges and settlementThe MM document that confirms the services ordered in a service purchase order.
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Service items
DE Servicepositionen Freight orderItems in a freight order or freight booking used to order additional services alongside transport, for example container fumigation or insurance.
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Service level
Order and demandA code describing the priority of a transportation service, for example Express or Standard.
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Service order
DE Serviceauftrag Freight orderA TM order describing tasks to be performed for items of a business document, such as cleaning or fumigating containers, or for the whole document, such as customs clearance for a freight booking.
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Service product catalogs
DE Serviceproduktkataloge Master data and cross-processA service product catalogue lists the services you make available to customers and acts as a template they can choose from.
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Service purchase order
Charges and settlementThe MM purchase order that TM creates when it posts a freight settlement document, with items for the freight costs.
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Settlement profile
Charges and settlementA Customizing object defined under Settlement > Define Settlement Profile that controls how settlement documents are processed.
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Shipment creation relevance
Freight orderCustomizing setting on the freight order type that specifies whether a shipment is created in the SAP ERP system from the planned freight order.
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Shipment type
Charges and settlementAttribute that classifies a shipment, for example as LTL. In TM it is an attribute of calculation sheets and calculation sheet items and can be used as a selection criterion in the master data cockpit; dangerous goods declarations also carry a shipment type field derived from the dangerous goods data.
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Shipper
Master data and cross-processThe party that sends the goods.
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Shipper scenario
Master data and cross-processUse of SAP TM by a company that ships its own goods, as opposed to a logistics service provider.
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Shipper's consolidation in Export/Import
SCO DE Shipper's Consolidation bei Export/Import Freight orderShipper's consolidation (SCO) in export/import combines orders from a single supplier for different ship-to parties, with packages separated at a deconsolidation point.
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Shipper's consolidation settlement
SCO DE Abrechnung von Shipper's Consolidation Charges and settlementA forwarding settlement scenario for a logistics service provider or carrier whose single customer ships goods from one location to several destinations in a country or region.
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Shipper's declaration
Freight orderA dangerous goods declaration the system can create for a freight booking, as required by IATA for dangerous goods tendered to air carriers.
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Shipping and receiving
Advanced SR Execution and trackingIn SAP TM, shipping and receiving is covered by Advanced Shipping and Receiving, an integrated end-to-end process for sending, receiving and transporting products.
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Shipping condition
Order and demandA sales document field that TM uses as the service level for order- and delivery-based transportation requirements.
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Shipping instruction
Freight orderMessage sent to the shipping company or airline for a freight booking once planning and consolidation are complete, carrying additional data such as the amount to be insured.
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Shipping point
Master data and cross-processA shipping point is defined in Logistics Execution, but in TM processes it is represented as location master data.
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Shipping type
Order and demandAn attribute describing how goods are shipped, for example full container load.
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Side-by-side TM
Master data and cross-processTM running in its own system and planning transport for orders and deliveries that come from a separate source system, such as SAP ERP or another SAP S/4HANA system.
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Source and destination location determination
DE Quell- und Ziellokationsermittlung Master data and cross-processThe logistics integration logic that identifies business entities and their locations in ERP documents, such as business partners, plants, shipping points or storage locations from SD, MM, LE or nJIT, and transfers them to the freight units.
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Specification of definitions
DE Festlegung von Definitionen Master data and cross-processThe function for creating resource-independent and date-independent templates used to define available capacity in capacity variants.
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Split quantity
Order and demandThe maximum capacity of a single freight unit, defined in the freight unit building rule with its unit of measure.
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Stackability
DE Stapelbarkeit Freight orderThe rules on whether products may be stacked, which load planning and load consolidation take into account.
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Stacking factor
DE Stapelfaktor Master data and cross-processA value that states how often a product or package, such as a pallet, can be stacked on itself.
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Stage
Freight orderA section of a transport between two stops in a TM business document.
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Stage type
Charges and settlementA stage type classifies a stage of the route in a forwarding order or freight order and can also be specified in an agreement item.
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Standard carrier alpha code
SCAC Master data and cross-processAn ocean-freight-specific code that identifies a carrier.
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Standard charge calculation
DE Standardkostenberechnung Charges and settlementStandard charge calculation is the process by which the system calculates transportation charges when triggered from Forwarding Order Management, Freight Order Management, Forwarding Settlement or Freight Settlement.
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Standard integration with SAP HANA spatial services
DE Standardintegration mit SAP-HANA-Raumdatenservices Master data and cross-processTM can use external geographical information system (GIS) services for geocoding, distances and durations, and georouting.
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Standard print forms
DE Standarddruckformulare Master data and cross-processStandardised templates delivered for SAP Output Management in TM to produce transportation documents, filled with data maintained in S/4HANA. Examples include the IATA Dangerous Goods Shipper's Declaration for air freight bookings and the Forwarding Instructions for freight orders.
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Status of a forwarding order
DE Status eines Speditionsauftrags Order and demandThe statuses shown mainly on the Status tab of a forwarding order.
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Statuses of business documents
DE Status von Geschäftsbelegen Master data and cross-processThe reference list of statuses that freight orders, freight bookings, freight units, transportation units, service orders and consignment orders can have.
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Stock transport order integration
STO Order and demandIntegration of stock transport orders (STOs) into TM so that transports between plants can be planned.
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Stock transport order process
STO DE Prozess mit Umlagerungsbestellungen Freight orderA process in the TM–EWM integration based on EWM transportation units for stock transport orders, which move stock between two plants of one company.
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Stop
Freight orderA transportation stop records an action performed at a location and the time it happens.
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Strategic freight procurement
DE Strategischer Frachteinkauf Carrier and tenderingThe process in which a shipper or logistics service provider investigates the best carrier rates for transports between specific locations (trade lanes) and then agrees contracts with the selected carriers.
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Strategic freight sales
DE Strategischer Frachtverkauf Charges and settlementStrategic freight sales helps a carrier or logistics service provider determine the best rates it can offer for transport between specific locations (trade lanes) and agree a contract with shippers or other providers.
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Strategy
Master data and cross-processIn the TM process controller, a strategy models a process as a sequence of methods and defines how the system executes a service, for example geocoding with strategy GC_GIS1.
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Strategy determination
DE Strategiefindung Carrier and tenderingIn carrier selection, the search for the transportation lane that most closely matches a business document such as a freight order, so that the strategy defined on that lane can be applied.
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Strategy spend estimation
DE Strategiekostenschätzung Carrier and tenderingA post-bid analysis step in strategic freight procurement in which carrier responses are compared using the optimiser for carrier selection.
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Subcontracting
Carrier and tenderingIn TM, handing a freight document over to a carrier for execution instead of executing it yourself; a rail freight order, for example, can be executed in-house or subcontracted, and a subcontracting print form exists for freight orders and freight bookings.
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Subcontracting of purchase order
DE Lohnbearbeitung von Bestellung Order and demandAn Advanced Shipping and Receiving feature that supports transporting components to a subcontractor and the finished products back to the manufacturer.
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Subsequent assignment of forwarding quotations
DE Nachträgliche Zuordnung von Speditionsangeboten Order and demandAssigning a forwarding quotation to a forwarding order after the order has been created, instead of creating the order from the quotation.
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Supplier freight invoice request
SFIR Charges and settlementA TM settlement business object on the supplier side, the counterpart of the customer freight invoice request (CFIR).
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Supplier returns processing based on QM notifications
DE Lieferantenretourenabwicklung basierend auf Q-Meldungen Order and demandA sample process for returning goods to a supplier after a failed quality inspection.
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Supported document combinations
DE Unterstützte Belegkombinationen Freight orderThe rules on which capacity documents may be created from which requirement documents when capacity documents are created from requirement groups.
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Synchronization of predecessor documents
DE Synchronisierung von Vorgängerbelegen Execution and trackingAn Advanced Shipping and Receiving inbound setting that synchronises predecessor documents referenced in a consignment order or freight order.
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Synchronization of transportation planning status
DE Synchronisation des Transportplanungsstatus Order and demandAn integration feature that keeps the transportation planning status of a delivery in SAP ERP in line with the planning status of the delivery-based transportation requirement (DTR) in TM. Every change of the planning status in TM triggers an update to SAP ERP. On the ERP side, the delivery header status can be Not Relevant, Not Processed, Partially Processed or Completely Processed.
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System integration
Master data and cross-processIn a side-by-side deployment, TM runs as a separate system with its own database and logic and exchanges business documents and master data with systems such as ERP, SAP GTS and EWM through service interfaces.
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