SAP ACM - TSW Integration
Our team was responsible for all integration milestones and the development extensions based on the standard SAP TM objects.
SAP ACM - TSW Integration With SAP TM On SAP S/4 HANA For A Manufacturing Provider
Customer
A provider of food, agriculture, financial, and industrial products, as well as a manufacturer of agricultural products.
Challenge
Our customer lacked the ability to track all transportation costs.
Solution
To ensure transparency in transportation costs and enhance the value associated with the physical movement of bulk agricultural commodities, the solution involved integrating SAP ACM and SAP TSW with SAP TM.
Products and Services
- SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)
- SAP S/4HANA
Project Score
The primary integration process we implemented encompassed the following key integration points:
I. Integration of SAP TSW nominations into the SAP TM system and integration of data from Load Data Capture (LDC) into documents in SAP TM.
Upon the creation of nominations (specific to agricultural business for product shipments) in SAP TSW, Freight Unit documents are generated in SAP TM.
Subsequently, TM Freight Orders are created, synchronized with TSW nominations.
Simultaneously, the Load Data Capture (LDC) document is generated in SAP ACM, enabling users to record weight, grade, or other logistical data for bulk inbound and outbound shipments.
LDC updates the corresponding Freight Orders data and is synchronized with a specific nomination.
II. Allocation of freight costs to the relevant trading contracts.
The subsequent phase of integration between SAP TM, SAP ACM, and SAP TSW involved enhancing standard cost distribution, cost calculation options in Freight Orders and Freight Settlement Documents (SAP TM), and trading contract splitting (TSW and ACM).
Key Features
While navigating LDC in SAP ACM proved straightforward and transparent, our experts encountered several complexities on both the TSW and TM fronts:
1. Managing a diverse array of transportation scenarios within nomination documents, each with its own integration requirements.
2. Implementing parallel processing to mitigate potential system strain when handling large volumes of incoming nomination documents.
3. Overcoming challenges in cost distribution by customizing standard classes and methods, introducing trading contract splitting to accurately calculate percentage ratios, and allocating transportation expenses.
4. Offering visibility into the status of cost distribution documents, with automated triggers for cost redistribution as necessary.
Results
Following the seamless integration of three SAP modules, the agricultural company experienced a significant uptick in process automation for transportation planning, resulting in substantial cost reductions.
Every facet of transportation, from scheduling to collaboration, execution, and payments, underwent a transformation towards heightened transparency.
With prompt settlement of freight costs tied directly to nominations and their alignment with appropriate trading contracts, customer profitability saw notable enhancement.
