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“powerful, future ready TMS that rewards data and process design”
“Logistics Management Is Reliable But Processes Remain Labor Intensive And Complex”
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SAP was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. The company employs over 105,000 people globally and develops software solutions for enterprise resource planning (ERP) and related business functions. SAP’s early products, SAP R/2 and SAP R/3, were widely adopted for managing core business processes. Its current ERP platform, SAP S/4HANA, uses in-memory computing to support data-intensive operations and integrates capabilities such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. SAP offers a portfolio of software applications that support various business functions across industries. These applications are designed to operate on a unified digital platform. As of 2025, SAP reports over 230 million cloud users and provides more than 100 solutions. The company’s offerings are used by organizations to manage finance, human resources, procurement, supply chain, and other operational areas.
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SAP Transportation Management (TM) Likes & Dislikes
1. End-to-end planning cockpit: one screen to rate shop, build loads, optimize routes and tender to carrier in minutes instead of juggling spreadsheets. 2. Native S/4HANA integration: Freight costs flow straight into the order and finance modules no more manual accruals at month-end 3. Powerful optimization engine: We routinely run 3000 shipments per night, the algorithm squeezes in multi-stop milk-runs we never saw before.
Fundamentally, it does what it is supposed to help manage carrier shipments and billing processes. And coming from SAP as a more mature product, it is very stable and integrates fairly well with other solutions from SAP and SAP partners.
The best part is how detailed and configurable the system is, you can tailor it as per your requirements. The freight order management and carrier collaboration features are useful
1. Steep data requirement: Dirty location or equipment masters cripple the optimizer cleansing is a must do project of its own. 2. User interface inconsistency: the Fiori apps look modern, but power users still need the old school GUI for some functions. 3. Limited out-of-box analytics: basic freight KPI's are there, yet you need embedded SAC or BW for deeper lane and carrier scorecards.
Not enough automation and/or AI (yet, though maybe coming) means it is still fairly labor intensive.
The setup and configuration can be overwhelming, it is not something you can just plug and play, you need experienced consultants and clear roadmap, report could be more intuitive too, sometimes it feels like you need a developer just to get basic insights.
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SAP Transportation Management (TM) Reviews and Ratings
- Operations Associate50M-1B USDSoftwareReview Source
powerful, future ready TMS that rewards data and process design
We replaced a 15- year-old in-house TMS with SAP TM two years ago to run our mixed fleet and 3PL network across North America and Europe. Once we stabilized master data and got planners trained on the new cockpit, our on-time-delivery KPI climbed from 92% to 97% and we shaved roughly 6% off annual freight spend thanks to better consolidation and real-time cost visibility. The learning curve and integration work were not small, but today the system is a reliable backbone for order-to-delivery. - MATERIAL COMPLIANCE SPECIALIST1B-10B USDEnergy and UtilitiesReview Source
Freight Order Features Shine While Setup and Reporting Remain Challenging
SAP TM has been a mixed review for us, mostly positive but with a few lags with that, it's good but no doubt, once it is properly set up, it can really streamline logistics and transportation planning. - BUSINESS INTEGRATION STRATEGY MANAGER, E10B+ USDEnergy and UtilitiesReview Source
Logistics Management Is Reliable But Processes Remain Labor Intensive And Complex
Overall, the product works well to manage our logistics. However, our users find that it often takes far more actions (clicks, data entry) to complete a process than is efficient. Also, you need to keep in mind that you will need more than just SAP TM for a complete solution. We have integrations to Project 44 (for carrier data), SAP LBN (for carrier invoicing), and a 3rd party procure-to-pay suite for links to POs and ASNs. - LOGISTICS SYSTEMS MANAGER10B+ USDManufacturingReview Source
System Offers Centralized Data But Customization and Support Remain Challenging
It is a very robust system, but it is very difficult to customize to your own processes. Additionally the customer service is very slow to respond. - Sap Fullstack Integration Developer10B+ USDFinance (non-banking)Review Source
Exploring Automation and Integration Opportunities in Commodity Trading Operations
To complement/replace our existing non-SAP Commodity Trading systems, we did a PoC at our company on this SAP Module and overall we saw opportunity for Automations and Scalability (e.g. Freight Order creation and Shipment Planning). Module is well integrated with the others we already have in place.