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How to setup business partners for the TM collaboration portal
Hi, ever wondered how to properly setup business partners to be used for the SAP TM collaboration portal? Here we go... If you as a shipper or LSP want to collaborate with a carrier A through the SAP...
View ArticleTroubleshooting: Carrier does not see the expected documents in the SAP TM...
Hi, if a carrier logs on to the SAP TM collaboration portal and either does not see any content at all, or not the expected content, this may have one of the following root causes: If no content is...
View ArticleBlog on Strategic Freight Management from a Shippers LSPs Perspective
Transportation cost control has been under intense pressure in recent years. Upward pricing drivers have included lengthening supply chains due to globalization, customers demanding faster and more...
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An IoT PoC – Using HCP IoT Services and on premise SAP TM/EM for Cold chain...
An IoT Proof of Concept – Using HCP IoT Services and on premise SAP Transportation Management/Event management for Cold chain monitoring Here is a PoC which uses an IoT device (Ti Sensor Tag CC2650),...
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Effective Optmization Series: Cost for trucks and trailers
For Optimizer costs information is the basic driver for all planning steps. Internally it evaluates each transport plans by summing all the cost terms and selects the best with the lowest cost. Without...
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Effective optimization: Utilization and why you should avoid cost-functions
In this blog I want to cover two frequent questions: I want to have only FORs with more than x% utilizationI want to distribute the freight between two FORs in a specific way I want to discuss this...
View ArticlePerformance improvement for navigation from home tiles
There are a couple of new SAP Notes which will help to get rid off redundant and unnecessary HTTP calls, which may get executed when a user clicks on a home tile in the SAP TM collaboration portal, to...
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WKS: Duration display format in TM
When looking at durations in TM UIs you typically see something like this, in thehhhh:mm format, so for example 64 hours look like thisThis is ok for shorter durations, but when crossing the 100h it...
View ArticleNew performance notes available for SAP TM collaboration portal document lists
Hi, There are a couple of new performance related SAP Notes available, which reduce the time it takes to load a number of documents in the table or detail view in the SAP TM collaboration portal. The...
View ArticleCollaboration Portal: Enhanced filter capabilities by defining date range
Hi, a while ago, we had introduced the concept of restricting the number of displayed documents in the SAP TM collaboration portal by defining a number of days in the past, which is used during data...
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Saving time when Debugging: BOPF returned objects, here: eo_message
Everyone, who debugs in TM, faced the situation many times: any BOPF call returns an object, which is deeply nested, e.g. eo_change or eo_message. This post is intended to suggest a way to save time...
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Monday Knowledge Snippet (MKS) - 63 TM 9.3 Load Planning: Color Items by Weight
Today I want to introduce a small feature, that can help to better analyze and understand the result of the automatic load planning in TM using the 3-D Visualization (provided by SAP Visual Business)....
View ArticleCollaboration Portal: How to enhance GetKeyFigures with a custom specific date
Hi, as explained in this post, you can specify a number of days in the past in the user settings to restrict the number of documents, which is read from he back-end. This filter is of course also...
View ArticleCollaboration Portal: New consulting note for freight settlement available!
Hi there, check out the new consulting note for using freight settlement in the SAP TM collaboration portal! It provides answers to the most common mistakes that we see to happen due to wrong system...
View ArticleCollaboration Portal: How to hide thingGroups or parts of thingGroups on...
Hi, some of you may have already recognized that it is not possible to hide a thingGroup or row of a thingGroup on an overlay dialog using the sap.ui.viewModifications as described in the enhancement...
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