SAP TM And Third-Party Solutions Integration for a Transport Company

LeverX perfects the movement of goods, while leveraging the powers of SAP TM.

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LeverX perfects the movement of goods, while leveraging the powers of SAP TM.

Customer

An European transport company.

CHALLENGE

Our customer turned to us for a tricky three-way integration of the SAP TM system with third-party solutions.

SOLUTION

Our team integrated SAP TM with PTV, a geographical service provider, on one side, and two telematics solutions— FleetBoard and Dynafleet— on the other.

Project Scope

Geocoding

Geocoding is a core component of mapping and vehicle routing and optimization tasks. When the company enters addresses, geocoding converts them into longitude and latitude coordinates. Precise geographic locations on digital maps are essential data for SAP TM because it is a prerequisite for distance calculation.

Georouting

This option provides precise route planning. Defining waypoints enables detailed route creation.

Calculating toll costs

It was one more business requirement. Thanks to the toll calculation feature, transportation costs could be reduced significantly.

Time and distance estimation

It helps optimize routes for any fleet size.

Map layers

Besides a range of services, PTV offers visualizing geographic data on digital maps.

FleetBoard and Dynafleet

As for FleetBoard and Dynafleet, these telematics solutions deal with defining the truck’s current location (geographical coordinates), thus ensuring excellent truck navigation. Also, the integration with these services lets users read the tachograph records. A tachograph is a device that counts the vehicle’s speed and distance and monitors the driver’s activity.

Key Features

Leverx Group works with companies and organizations to address the complex challenges of today's business world. Each of our partners is an experienced, innovative, and proven leader in their respective fields.

Automotive

SAP PLM is a solid basis for the automotive industry. This solution helps digitize and automate manufacturing processes and work more efficiently with suppliers and partners.

Aerospace & Defense

The solution allows aerospace and defense companies to reduce the time to market for innovations without compromising safety while simulating innovation scenarios along a complex value chain.

Food & Beverage

SAP PLM provides the food & beverage industry with all the required technologies that help to develop sustainable, traceable, high-quality products within a shorter time.

Consumer Goods

With SAP PLM, this industry can exceed the diverse expectations of consumers and enable sustainably and profitably growth for the business.

Pharma

SAP PLM helps to make pharmaceutical production more effective and with lower risk.

It is possible with mobile maintenance scenarios and two SAP solutions, SAP Work Manager (SAP WM) и SAP Asset Manager (SAP AM). They provide access to information on asset statuses and allow you to maintain them comprehensively.

SAP WM is a mobile application with wider functionality that offers both on-premise and cloud hosting capabilities.

SAP AM is a more modern cloud-based solution that can be integrated with innovative SAP Cloud Platform IoT.

Both solutions help to improve enterprise asset productivity with constant monitoring, analytics, and timely diagnostics.

Technology Stack We Used

Mobile

Android (Kotlin)
iOS (Swift)

Mobile

Android (Kotlin)
iOS (Swift)

Mobile

Android (Kotlin)
iOS (Swift)

Mobile

Android (Kotlin)
iOS (Swift)

Mobile

Android (Kotlin)
iOS (Swift)

Mobile

Android (Kotlin)
iOS (Swift)

Document Management

Document Release
Material Master Release and Extension
Sales Order Release
Manufacturing Instruction Release

Request Management

Procurement Request
Tooling Change Request
Shop Floor Issue Request
Customer Issue Request
Plant Maintenance Work Request
Request for Quote

In the course of integration processes, our team conducted the following development improvements:

Geo map component enhancements

Because PTV, not SAP PM, provides a map, we arranged for the objects to be displayed on the map correctly.

Transportation cockpit

This is a standard TM application for planning transportation. We have made refinements of this solution as well.

Thanks to third-party services integrated into the customer’s SAP TM and our assistance during the project, the logistics company now feels the full force of newly gained functionality:

Geocoding
Georouting
Toll cost calculation
Estimation of time and distance
Map layers
Tracking of actual location and drivers’ activities

This guarantees truck route optimization, getting precise traffic and truck data, planning and executing safe journeys, as well as additional preconditions for significant cost savings.