SAP TM receives sales orders or deliveries from SAP ERP and creates corresponding transportation requirements and freight units.

Based on transportation requirements, transportation planning is done and freight orders are created in SAP TM.

If transportation planning was done based on sales orders, SAP TM creates deliveries in SAP ERP.

SAP ERP distributes outbound deliveries to SAP EWM and SAP EWM automatically generates corresponding warehouse requests of the type outbound delivery order.

Based on the freight orders, SAP TM automatically sends a loading appointment request message to SAP EWM.

The loading appointment request is transferred to SAP EWM, where a vehicle or TUs and planned shipping and receiving activities are created automatically and the outbound delivery orders are assigned to the TU activities.

You perform the warehouse activities related to the outbound delivery orders such as picking, packing, staging, and loading the goods. Note that all warehouse activities except loading can be performed before the arrival of the vehicle or TU to the door.

You execute the action Arrival at Checkpoint for the vehicle or the TU. The system automatically changes the status of the shipping and receiving activity from Planned to Active.

You assign a door to the vehicle or the TU.

If yard management is active, you move the vehicle or the TU from the yard to the assigned door.

If yard management is not active, you execute the action Arrival at Door for the vehicle or the TU.

You perform the warehouse activities, such as loading the goods, posting the goods issue, and printing the transportation documents.

With the goods issue posting in SAP EWM, the delivery information is transferred to SAP ERP, where the deliveries are automatically updated with the execution data. The delivery information is forwarded to SAP TM for the purpose of updating the consumed transportation requirements.

If yard management is active, you move the vehicle or the TU from the door to the yard.

If yard management is not active, you execute the action Departure from Door for the vehicle or the TU.

You execute the action Departure from Checkpoint for the vehicle or the TU. SAP EWM automatically changes the status of the shipping and receiving activity from Active to Completed.

With the departure from checkpoint in SAP EWM, a loading appointment notification message is transferred to SAP TM, where the freight orders are automatically updated with the execution data.

You set the execution status of the SAP TM freight order to Completed.

You carry out the freight settlement in SAP TM. The freight settlement document in SAP TM is the basis for the invoice verification and settlement in SAP ERP.