Fact-Based Tactical Routing in SAP TM

Addressing the challenge of resources deployment
One of the greatest challenges in transportation nowadays is how to in increase operational excellence through more effective deployment of resources.

One way to achieve this is to extract information from the ever-increasing stream of ‘big data’ produced by operational processes and use it to increase effectiveness and cut costs.

This whitepaper provides an example of this, by showing the interaction between two state-of-the-art transportation systems: the latest release of the operational Transportation Management System SAP TM 9.0 and ONR, a tactical transportation planningtool.

System capabilities
We give an overview of the possibilities both systems offer and how their integration is set up. We look in detail at how SAP TM 9.0 produces information such as distance driven, amounts transported, number of orders etc that ONR then uses to produce a tactical planning ranging from a few weeks to several months.

This tactical plan can be used to estimate resources utilization as the basis for decisions on hiring extra resources, launching marketing campaigns or even subcontracting resources.

How integrated systems can add value
The whitepaper not only reflects the technical integration between the two systems, but shows how the operational and tactical planning processes interconnect such that both systems benefit from each other‘s output.