S4611 – Basic Transportation Management in SAP S/4HANA

S4611 – Basic Transportation Management in SAP S/4HANA focuses on the practical decisions required to convert logistics demand into planned, tendered, executed, and settled transportation in embedded SAP S/4HANA TM. The four lessons move from foundational design through execution and configuration to validation, troubleshooting, and accountable handover.

The scenario features a shipper introducing basic Transportation Management to plan deliveries, select carriers, monitor freight execution, and control freight cost. Learners develop transportation-demand and freight-unit map, freight planning and capacity evidence pack, carrier assignment and execution workbook, and basic TM settlement and monitoring plan while resolving controlled failures covering a delivery creates freight units with an unsuitable split or planning profile; a planned freight order exceeds resource capacity or delivery time windows; a tender is awarded despite a service or capacity mismatch; a completed freight order is blocked from settlement by inconsistent execution status.

On completion, participants can create transportation demand, plan freight units, assign carriers, monitor execution, and review settlement-ready transport documents.

What You Will Learn

• Recognize the SAP objects behind transportation demand integration and their impact on visible transportation execution.
• Set up freight unit building with appropriate dependencies, defaults, and governance controls.
• Run transportation network data scenarios and capture the resulting messages, documents, and accounting effects.
• Verify manual and optimizer planning behavior under expected, exceptional, and restricted-access conditions.
• Trace carrier selection problems to the earliest inconsistent rule, record, or transaction step.
• Remediate tendering and subcontracting defects using proportionate changes and repeatable validation evidence.
• Summarize freight execution events findings for operational stakeholders without overstating unsupported conclusions.
• Create freight cost review improvement records covering ownership, monitoring, escalation, and closure evidence.

SkillDynamo Training Approach

Learners observe course-specific SAP demonstrations, repeat the workflow in guided exercises, test exceptions, evaluate evidence with checklists, troubleshoot root causes, and finish with an owned improvement and handover plan.