Intercompany process in SAP TM 8.0

[former_member214696]

Dear consultants,

We are working with SAP TM 8.0 and we have some doubts regarding business process in TM.

We need to include a intercompany process for transport. We have a company who is responsible for transport (we have not internal carriers or trucks). All of the transport is done by external providers.

Our transport company is responsible for managing purchasing transports with different transport providers. After transport process, this transport companies bill the services to the rest of the companies.

Is this intercompany process managed in TM or in ECC?

With my best regards

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Nope this is not supported with TM8.0-ERP integration.

You have to manage this in ECC separately

[former_member214696]

Hi Frank

I will try to response your questions:

Transport Company is a different company code. Also as we are managing different environments (SAP clients in ECC) by country/business, we need also to define in which ECC environment will be located this company for financial purposes.

How is the Transport Company billing to the rest of the company. Is that based on fixed agreements or based on a cost plus a percentage overhead for managing the transports?. Both of them could be possible. Normally rates are fixed (by contract or by customer) but second option could be possible.

Thanks a lot in advance and best regards

Edited by: Ángel Montero Cortés on Jul 27, 2011 6:49 PM

[FrankOvergoor]

Good afternoon,

Your question is a nice one and not simple to answer, since what is supported is depending a lot of the details.

In general SAP identifies two main TM customer target groups, shippers and LSP's.

Within Consulting we also have a third target group and these are embedded LSP's, these are shippers with their own Transport department or company that is managing the transports for the rest of the company.

The Transport Company in your company looks like an embedded LSP, to identify waht you should do I have two questions.

As I understand you correctly you have a separate company that is managing your transports. Is this Transport company also a separate SAP Company code or legal entity?

How is the Transport Company billing to the rest of the company. Is that based on fixed agreements or based on a cost plus a percentage overhead for managing the transports?

Based on the answers on these questions, there are multiple solutions possible.

In general in the TM 8.0 it would be possible to bill the rest of the company also with intercompany billing, depending on some details there is maybe some additional development in BADI's etc. needed.

The TM 8.1 and future release will have improved functionality in this area, since these releases are planned to support LSP processes better.

Kind regards,

[Former Member]

Hi Frank,

Could you please share thoughts on how the inter company process can be achieved in TM8.0

If the transport company is a separate legal entity and there are fixd agreement between the transport company and rest of the companies.

regards,

Murugesh

[Former Member]

Hi,

you can use the external transport provider as a forwarding agent( with vendor master record (account group 0005)).

can raise po for transport service ,create service entry and post invoice for the vendor.

thanks