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What's New in TM 9.0? An Overview of SAP
TM 9.0 Innovations
Following our roadmap, this release adds freight forwarders to the TM industry coverage, and with it, extends
the modes to cover air freight management, with specific capabilities for airfreight order, capacity, cargo and
gateway management.

Enhancements however, have been holistic, covering ocean freight, manual and automated freight planning,
charge management and reporting for both shipper and freight forwarder industries.

Here a high level overview of the complete TM 9.0 solution and coverage.
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New developments/enhancements delivered with SAP TM 9.0 for freight forwarder industries.....

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.....as well as general enhancements for shipper industries ...


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That's just a small insight into what's new.
For more detail, I invite you to explore the following:

1. A full overview presentation (on the delta / new functionality) can be found here, as well as details on the
new TM - EWM integration scenarios .
2. SAP Documentation for SAP TM 9.0. on help.sap.com.
Here you will find:
New Release Notes for SAP 9.0 (describing the new, delta functional enhancements)
Online TM 9.0 System Documentation (describing the complete solution (incl. the new, delta
functionality)).
PDF version of TM 9.0 System Documentation (consolidated in 1 .pdf) > in SAP Service
Marketplace > see list of attached documents
TM 9.0 Terminology & Glossary > Available here via the SAP Service Marketplace (customer/partner
user required) in the list of attached documents
Guide for using SAP Event Management with SAP TM - Scenarios for SAP Transportation
Management
3. (Service Market Place log-on required)
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I strongly recommend customers and partners make use of the guides here in their SAP TM 9.0
implementations. These documents are written by consulting and development experts to provide you with a
solid overview and take you step-by-step through the needed configuration. They are an important help line to
save you time and questions.
All the below guides can be accessed by SAP customers, partners and colleagues in our SAP Service
Marketplace here (log-in required). Alternatively, via service.sap.com/instguides and then selecting SAP
Business Suite Applications => SAP TM => Solution Manager Content Documentation => Using SAP TM 9.0.

I have listed the guides out to give you an overview of what is available. It's worth going to the site!
SAP TM Scenario Descriptions & Scenario Configuration Guides
Domestic Inbound Transportation
Domestic Outbound Transportation
International Inbound Logistics
International Outbound Transportation
LCL Air Freight
LCL Ocean Freight
Outsourced Transportation
SAP TM Process Descriptions
Managing Transportation Requirements
Managing Bookings
Planning Freight & Selecting Carriers
Managaing Freight Orders
Managing Forwarding Orders
Tendering Freight
Executing & Monitoring Freight
Settling Costs for Internal Resources & Settling Freight Orders for LSP's and Shippers
Settling Forwarding Orders for Customers & Settling Internal Charges for Forwarding Orders
SAP TM Integration Guides

Basic Settings for SAP TM

Basic Settings & Integration for SAP ERP

Integration of SAP Event Management
Integration of Output Management
Basic Settings for Visual Business (for map visualization and map-based planning)
Integration of Dangerous Goods

Integration of Global Trade Services (for trade compliance)

Integration of SAP Business Warehouse (for reporting)

Other useful documents:
SAP TM 9.0 - Planning and Network Tutorial
SAP TM Optimizer - How-to Guide