“Email the carrier and wait” is still how a surprising number of supply chains run. A shipment leaves the dock, and from that point forward, visibility depends on someone remembering
Freight cost rarely shows up as one clean line item. It creeps in through a carrier rate that nudges up, an empty mile nobody flagged, an invoice paid against the
Supply chain transformation sounds straightforward when it is reduced to a technology decision. Move to SAP S/4HANA. Add the right supply chain solutions. Connect the systems. Train the teams. Go
A shipment’s late and so the production schedule has got to be changed. Someone discovers that the required component is sitting in another warehouse, three countries away. The logistics team
I want to be honest with you upfront: there is no perfect shortlist of SAP modules. What works for a mid-sized automotive Tier 1 supplier running just-in-time production in Bavaria
SAP S/4HANA projects usually fail in the weeks before they start. Something in the preparation phase that nobody caught. A requirement nobody pinned down. A data problem nobody looked at closely
Carrier emails, manual rate checks, no real picture of where shipments are until something goes wrong. A lot of logistics teams are still working this way. SAP TM is what
Time. Cost. How much the organization actually has to change. On nearly every SAP S/4HANA project, one of these gets underestimated. Usually it’s more than one. Let’s look at all
Global supply chains generate more data today than at any point in history — yet most shippers still can’t answer a basic question in real time: where is my shipment,
For years, SAP LE-TRA handled transportation execution quietly in the background. Shipments got created, carriers got notified, freight costs got calculated. It did its job without demanding much attention. That