SAP TM glossary: T
71 terms in plain words, with the official German SAP term. Key terms link to their own page.
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SAP TM 9.6
Master data and cross-processThe last release line of standalone SAP Transportation Management outside SAP S/4HANA, documented by SAP with its own release notes (What's New in SAP Transportation Management 9.6 FPS02, software component SAPTM 170).
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SAP Transportation Management
SAP TM Master data and cross-processSAP's application for planning, executing and settling transportation, covering for example forwarding orders, freight units, freight orders and bookings, charge calculation and settlement.
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SAP Transportation Management for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Master data and cross-processTransportation Management in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
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TACT rate upload
DE Upload von TACT-Tarifen Master data and cross-processTACT rate upload loads TACT rates into TM database tables so that air freight charge calculation can use them; it is repeated whenever IATA publishes new rates.
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TACT rates
DE TACT-Tarife Charges and settlementTACT rates are air freight rates published by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) between city pairs, possibly specific to carrier and unit load device (ULD) rate type.
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Tax determination
DE Steuerermittlung Charges and settlementTM itself does not calculate tax on settlement documents; it passes tax-relevant determinants to the logistics components that do.
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Tendering
DE Ausschreibung Carrier and tenderingThe process of offering a road freight order or ocean freight booking to carriers.
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Tendering manager
Carrier and tenderingThe tendering manager is the person who runs freight tendering: they send freight RFQs for a road freight order or ocean freight booking to carriers, set limits such as the maximum response time, and evaluate or award the freight quotations received.
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Tendering profile
DE Ausschreibungsprofil Carrier and tenderingA set of basic tendering data used to define a tendering plan.
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Tendering type
Carrier and tenderingThe tendering type defines how a tendering step is carried out; each step in a tendering plan or tendering profile has exactly one.
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Text collection
DE Textsammlung Master data and cross-processObject that stores texts related to a business document such as a freight order or forwarding order, categorised by text type, language and internal or external use.
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Text types
DE Textarten Master data and cross-processText types are used to manage texts related to a business document.
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Through rates
DE Durchgangstarifpreise Charges and settlementThrough rates let the system use stage categories to calculate a single rate across stages in a forwarding order or freight order.
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Total costs
DE Gesamtkosten Freight orderThe costs that VSR optimization minimises.
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Tracking
Execution and trackingTracking is the monitoring of transportation execution through reported events.
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Trade compliance check
DE Prüfung auf Einhaltung von Außenhandelsvorschriften Master data and cross-processA check for new or changed TM business documents that is carried out in SAP Global Trade Services.
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Trade lane
DE Verkehrsbeziehung Master data and cross-processA classification of transport activities that combines zones or locations with a transportation mode or means of transport and gives a direction from source to destination, for example all transports from Hamburg to New York.
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Trade lane upload
DE Upload von Verkehrsbeziehungen Master data and cross-processA function that creates or deletes trade lanes in bulk by uploading a list.
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Trailer handling during trailer swap
DE Anhängerhandling im Begegnungsverkehr Freight orderA function that determines the best location in the transport chain for swapping trailers between trucks.
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Trailer unit
DE Anhängereinheit Order and demandA transportation unit for the logistic processing of transports with trailers, needed when a trailer is moved by more than one tractor.
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Trailer-Unit-Based settlement
DE Anhängereinheitbasierte Abrechnung Charges and settlementAn execution-based way of settling with the customer per trailer unit delivered rather than per forwarding order.
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Transaction code
Master data and cross-processShort code entered in the command field to start an SAP GUI transaction or report.
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Transit procedure
DE Versandverfahren Master data and cross-processA customs procedure for moving duty-unpaid goods within a customs union: it is opened so that customs authorities permit the transport and closed so that they permit unloading.
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Transit procedure for freight documents
DE Versandverfahren für Frachtbelege Freight orderThe process of making the entries and settings in a freight document for opening, closing and optionally cancelling the transit procedure.
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Transit procedure for freight units
DE Versandverfahren für Frachteinheiten Order and demandThe process of opening the transit procedure for a freight unit in a forwarding order, before the freight unit is assigned to a freight document.
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Transit procedure: Close transit in freight documents
DE Versandverfahren: Beenden des Versandverfahrens in Frachtbelegen Execution and trackingThe step in which you close the transit procedure in a freight document by requesting permission to unload the goods, using the customs request for unloading at the relevant unloading location.
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Transit procedure: Open transit in freight documents
DE Versandverfahren: Eröffnung des Versandverfahrens in Frachtbelegen Freight orderThe step in which the transit procedure is opened in a freight document.
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Transit warehousing
DE Transitlagerung Execution and trackingAn integration of the planned goods flow in TM with the physical flow in EWM along the transport chain, based on execution documents from forwarding orders.
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Transit warehousing process
DE Transitlagerungsprozess Execution and trackingThe flow in which transportation is planned in TM and freight documents with transportation units are sent to EWM, where loading, unloading and staging take place.
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Transport-Driven execution
DE Transportgesteuerte Ausführung Execution and trackingAn outbound execution variant in which transportation planning comes first and warehouse work waits: once the delivery is created it is blocked for warehouse processing until it is released by manually setting the warehouse processing status to Ready for Warehouse Processing.
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Transportation allocation
DE Kontingent Carrier and tenderingAn object that stores carrier capacity in a geographical area with a means of transport, or for specific schedule departures, as minimum or maximum quantities per time bucket together with the quantities already assigned.
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Transportation charge management
TCM Charges and settlementTransportation charge management (TCM) is the area of TM concerned with calculating transportation charges and related invoicing.
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Transportation cockpit
DE Transport-Cockpit Freight orderThe central app for manual planning in SAP TM. Planners assign transportation demands (freight unit stages) to capacities (equipment types in the Public Cloud edition) and thereby create freight orders or freight bookings.
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Transportation demand
Order and demandThe need to transport goods that arises from business documents such as orders and deliveries.
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Transportation distance and transportation duration
DE Transportentfernung und Transportdauer Freight orderThe distance and travel time of a freight order management document, shown per stage and at header level; net duration is pure travel time between two stops without activities such as loading.
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Transportation Execution - Basic TM (7IW)
7IW Execution and trackingSAP Best Practices scope item for executing freight documents within Basic TM: monitoring and setting execution statuses for arrival, departure and check-out per location and stage, and header statuses such as "Ready for Transportation Execution", which also feed freight cost confirmation.
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Transportation group
Master data and cross-processA product attribute defined in Customizing that groups products with similar transport requirements.
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Transportation lane
DE Transportbeziehung Master data and cross-processA relationship between two locations, two zones or a combination of both, stating that they are directly reachable with a specific means of transport.
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Transportation lanes in tendering
DE Transportbeziehungen bei der Ausschreibung Carrier and tenderingA function for road freight orders that lets the system assign carriers automatically to peer-to-peer and broadcast tendering steps.
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Transportation management – freight order integration (SAP_COM_00905)
DE Transportation Management – Frachtauftragsintegration (SAP_COM_00905) Freight orderA communication scenario in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition that lets an external transportation management system create, read, update and cancel freight orders through the OData V4 service API_FREIGHTORDER. Inside the system you can also edit and cancel freight orders, calculate charges and create deliveries for them.
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Transportation management – freight unit integration (SAP_COM_00908)
SAP_COM_00908 DE Transportation Management – Frachteinheitsintegration (SAP_COM_00908) Order and demandCommunication scenario in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition that lets an external transportation management system read freight units.
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Transportation management – rate table integration (SAP_COM_0767)
SAP_COM_0767 DE Transportation Management – Tarifpreistabellenintegration (SAP_COM_0767) Charges and settlementCommunication scenario in SAP S/4HANA Cloud that lets an external transportation management system create, read, update and delete rate tables.
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Transportation management in advanced intercompany business processes
DE Transportation Management in erweiterten buchungskreisübergreifenden Geschäftsprozessen Master data and cross-processDescribes how TM supports advanced intercompany sales and advanced intercompany stock transfer.
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Transportation management monitoring with CCMS
CCMS DE Transportation Management Überwachung mit CCMS Master data and cross-processUse of the Computing Center Management System (CCMS) monitoring architecture to watch a TM system landscape.
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Transportation manager
Master data and cross-processTransportation manager is a TM user role.
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Transportation mode
DE Verkehrszweig Master data and cross-processThe way goods are moved, such as road, rail, sea or air.
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Transportation mode category
Master data and cross-processA grouping of transportation modes.
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Transportation network
TN DE Transportnetz Master data and cross-processThe component used to define locations, transportation zones, transportation lanes and schedules.
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Transportation network cockpit
DE Transportnetz-Cockpit Master data and cross-processA map-based function that displays transportation network master data such as locations, zones, transportation lanes, trade lanes, schedules and default routes.
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Transportation order
Master data and cross-processAn umbrella name for TM freight documents such as freight orders.
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Transportation planner
Freight orderThe transportation planner is the user role responsible for transportation planning, for example creating freight orders and using key performance indicators in the transportation cockpit to judge whether the plan is efficient.
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Transportation planning
Master data and cross-processThe SAP TM process of turning transportation requirements, such as orders and deliveries from SD, MM and LE, into a transportation plan of freight orders and freight bookings.
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Transportation planning - sample inbound process
DE Transportplanung - Beispieleingangsprozess Master data and cross-processAn SAP Help process description for the Public Cloud edition that shows how goods receipt transports are planned.
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Transportation planning - sample outbound process
DE Transportplanung - Beispielausgangsprozess Master data and cross-processAn SAP Help process description for the Public Cloud edition that shows how deliveries to customers are planned in TM. Prerequisites include released freight agreements with rate tables, charge calculation configuration, a control key on the relevant sales document types and the logistics integration profile S002 - Planning Cloud Outbound with freight unit building rule SFUBR2.
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Transportation planning with mixed packages and deconsolidation
DE Transportplanung mit gemischten Packstücken und Dekonsolidierung Freight orderA process in which orders from different customers travel together across several stages and are deconsolidated on the last stage in a delivery tour.
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Transportation planning with trailers
DE Transportplanung mit Anhängern Execution and trackingA process in the TM-EWM integration based on EWM transportation units that supports planning and execution with trailers.
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Transportation proposal
Freight orderA set of alternative planning results that the VSR optimizer generates for a selected freight unit, from which the planner chooses one.
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Transportation requirement
TRQ Order and demandUmbrella term for TM documents that represent transportation demand from ERP documents, namely order-based (OTR) and delivery-based (DTR) transportation requirements.
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Transportation requirement routing and scheduling
TRS DE Routing und Terminierung von Transportbedarfen Order and demandA foundation module that provides route determination, transportation duration determination and scheduling for transportation requirements.
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Transportation service levels
DE Transportservicegrade Order and demandA way to describe the priority of transportation services, for example Express or Standard.
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Transportation stages and Dates/Times in the freight unit
DE Transportabschnitte und Termine in der Frachteinheit Order and demandDescribes how stages and dates/times get into a freight unit: from a forwarding order both stages and dates are copied, from order- or delivery-based transportation requirements only the dates.
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Transportation stops
DE Transport-Stopps Freight orderIn freight orders, freight bookings, freight units and transportation units, a transportation stop states what action happens at which location and when.
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Transportation unit
TU DE Transporteinheit Order and demandA business document that represents a trailer, one or more railcars, a container or a package together with its load.
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Transportation unit in EWM
TU Execution and trackingA transportation unit (TU) in EWM is the warehouse-side object that corresponds to a TM freight order in the integration based on EWM transportation units.
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Transportation unit resource
DE Transporteinheitsressource Master data and cross-processA resource type representing an instance of a transportation unit, such as a container, used to map capacity and availability for transport.
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Transportation zone
DE Transportzone Master data and cross-processAn object that groups locations, for example all customers supplied by one warehouse.
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Transportation zone hierarchy
DE Transportzonenhierarchie Master data and cross-processA hierarchy that assigns transportation zones to other zones.
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Transportation-Mode-Specific codes
DE Verkehrszweigspezifische Codes Master data and cross-processCodes defined for particular transportation modes, such as air-freight location codes for airports or airline codes and standard carrier alpha codes assigned to business partners.
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Transportation-relevance check
Order and demandThe decision whether a logistics document is passed to TM for planning.
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Transshipment location
DE Umladelokation Master data and cross-processA location where goods are unloaded from one vehicle resource and loaded onto another during transport.
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Triangulation
Order and demandCombining a request for empty return and a request for empty provisioning into one transport, so that an empty container or railcar goes straight from one customer to the next instead of via the yard.
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