1. SAP Transportation Resource Planning
An Introduction
June 2015

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SAP Transportation Resource Planning delivers support to
provision the right resource at the right time and right location
to fulfill the customer demand at a minimal cost.
It allows you to
Increase the visibility of transportation resources
Determine supply and demand of empty transportation resources incl. forecasts
Take decisions to avoid or optimize repositionings based on calculated
provisioning and return locations
Balance the stock of empty resources
Trigger plan execution in the transportation management system
Monitor resource related KPIs
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Key business needs addressed by SAP Transportation
Resource Planning
Provide visualization on resource availability and support the
determination of the available to promise date
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Calculation of supply and demand of empty resources to allocate best the
appropriate resource
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Reliably forecast the supply and demand of resources3
Strategies to avoid repositionings of empties and to increase the
utilization of the transportation resources
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Integrated event triggered handling of service recoveries in exceptional
cases
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Architectural overview
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Transform the
business model to
dramatically
increase the
visibility of
transportation
resources on stock as
well as in transit and
ease integration into
transportation network
and costs
Benefit from enhanced
computation models to
faster determine
current and
forecasted supply&
demand of empty
transportation
resources and avoid
cost intensive
repositionings
Enjoy lower costs by
reducing both
resources and
transportation of
empties to fulfill the
customer demand at
the right time and right
location
Visibility Resource Planning Cost
Making a difference for your business
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Thank you
Ralf Hierzegger
Product Owner, Business Solution Architect
Custom Development
SAP SE
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Dr. Harald Hengelbrock
Product Owner
Co-Innovation Dev
SAP SE
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D-69190 Walldorf, Germany
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