SAP Transportation Management vs. Trimble MAPS PC*Miler

SAP Transportation Management is great when you are traveling for the first time as a corporate employee. It allows you to make a travel itinerary that is cohesive and includes flights, hotels, and car rentals in one easy to access document or email.

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IT is easy to find best route for my drivers when they ask. The accuracy of miles and routes for trucks is very good.

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• Capturing Logs and objects of each change/ transport
• Automatic movement of changes via the SAP Transportation Management queue
• Setting up workflow to automate the client specific and SID specific movements
• Express the configuration graphically very well
• Ease of changing configuration of SAP Transportation Management and moving it through the landscape.

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• Route Visibility
• Alternate routes
• Mileage accuracy for rates

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• The icons with SAP Transportation Management can be easy to mix up and can cause issue if the wrong buttons are pressed

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• Weight restriction roads
• Easier use of homescreen to get miles and rates
• Make it more container transport friendly
• It would be best to have an easier way to share route information with drivers with one click of the mouse.

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I think its a great tool that people at all different levels in the business can use. It makes it easy to consolidate and search for travel

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It is a good system and allows my team ease of use and familiarity

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As any SAP products is not very much user oriented, but its a transactional system. But for large volume operations, it should be more user friendly and easier and more readable interface. SAP in general needs to improve in that area. What is good, you can have a full e2e process overview and traceability of the order - which is one of the reasons we chose to use the product.

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It allows to integrate an e2e flow from business process to finance and people management, which in logistic business are the resources for logistic execution. Analytics are obviously allows us to analyze the metrics and make data driven decisions.

Incentivized

Much better for trucking use and routing. Mileage is much more accurate. Its easy to use and search for alternate truck routes if needed.

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• Enables movement of code changes through the landscape seamlessly
• We have a busy shop and it doesn't matter if a project with 1000+ changes or 100 changes, the system handles it very well. The business is happy that we can move all these changes at one go
• One feature would be to identify if the changes are to some core objects in the system then take an automatic backup or at least give that option.

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• Time saver for dispatchers
• Time saver for rate requests
• Ease of use for routing and verifying routes.

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