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Transportation Management with SAP TM 9.0
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Globalization has played a crucial role in the expansion of supply chains across countries and continents into ever-changing worldwide networks. Manufacturers, driven by the desire to produce cost-effective, high-quality products are continuing to extend their supply-demand chains, introducing new challenges to these networks. This seismic shift has lead to the phasing out of internal logistics functions, and a move towards third-party logistics providers (3PLs), enabling manufacturers to focus on their core business areas. 3PLs are challenged daily by demanding customers, changing regulations, compliance standards, and gaps between their information technology (IT) maturity and customers’ expectations. Hence, 3PLs have started to simplify, modernize, and standardize their IT systems. The aim is to build a system landscape that can address all of their requirements, while replacing most of the existing complex and fragmented systems with a robust platform. In particular, applications that deal with critical functional areas, such as order management, transportation planning, execution, warehousing, finance, billing, and pricing and costing are in need of attention. TMS (transportation management systems) has therefore emerged as one of the critical areas, if not the most critical one. Implementation of a TMS is key. If executed well, a good TMS can deliver many benefits to an organization in terms of optimization, improved efficiency, reduced errors, and increased revenue. However, a number of projects fail to achieve these objectives for a host of reasons, including incorrect product selection, overcustomization of the system, lack of standardized processes, and little support from management. In realizing the maximum benefit from a TMS, the product selection process and implementation methodology play significant roles.
Jayant Daithankar and Tejkumar Pandit - Personal Name
978-1-4302-6026-4
NONE
Management
English
2014
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