Turning Insights into Action
Modern Supply chains are looking for predictive and actionable insights into logistics activities to manage today’s business challenges, yet it can be overwhelming knowing where to start. Having a logistics dashboard tailored for your business, can increase a logistics managers view of arrival and departure performance, freight costs and carrier billing. In this blog, I'll take you through the analytics dashboard available for SAP Transportation Management using SAP Analytics Cloud. Some of the data points are from Fleet management.
Topics I'll be covering in this blog:
- How does the SAP Transportation Management dashboard work?
- What KPI's can be tracked in SAP Transportation Management?
- Dashboard Overview
How does the dashboard work?
With the integration of SAC, users can monitor strategic and operational transportation KPIs in real-time, analyze transportation processes, assess issues and take immediate actions. All of these functions are role based giving the users a better user experience.
What KPI's can be tracked in SAP Transportation Management?
The dashboard contains 2 main elements - Shipment Execution KPI Dashboard and the Fleet Optimization and customer service level KPIs.
Within these 2 dashboards numerous KPI's can be tracked -
- Transportation planning
- Shipment Execution
- Transportation Cost Analysis
- Customer Service Levels
- Financial Overview
- Fleet Management
Dashboard Overview
Shipment Execution
SAP TM can manage inbound, outbound and a combination of inbound and outbound logistics. What does this mean? When a truck goes out to deliver a shipment, the truck can be planned to collect uplifts, returns or even inbound stock based on a completely different Purchase Order.
A Transportation Executive can have a look at the overall status of deliveries that are late or on-hold to take immediate action as well checking the performance of a carrier's performance. A carrier can be measured against their service level agreements. Filters can be used to analyze specific routes or shipment lanes.
Transportation Management always comes down to the dollars and cents. Saving just a few dollars on each shipment will add up over the course of 1 financial year saving money and freeing up resources.
The Transportation Manager or Finance Director can see detail of the Freight Costs. They can visualize the cost distribution by carrier, product and invoice charge analysis by carrier, mode and order type. They can see a summary view such as total gross weight, total invoice charge, and average cost. This comes in handy as one of the parameters used in transportation is weight. The shipper or customer can have an in depth view of the products being transported and the costs associated with them.
Fleet Optimization
KPI criteria shows the volume in bubbles on the map for each country which represents a market unit. Deep analysis can also be done for revenue, gross margins, costs, returns, etc. The cost distribution can also can also be seen by carrier, mode or order type giving insights into business.
To find some more information on KPI's in SAP Transportation Management, you can visit SAP Transportation Management | SAP Help Portal.
This blog was a functional overview of the dashboards in SAP Analytics Cloud for SAP Transportation Management and Fleet Management.
In my next blog I plan to cover the Analytics available for SAP Extended Warehouse Management. Thank you for reading my blog, please share your feedback in the comments section.
For more updates on Transportation Management please visit https://community.sap.com/topics/transportation-management
If you have any questions on Transportation Management please visit https://answers.sap.com/tags/01200615320800000686
Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravine-lala-logistics .
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