The SAP modules are the same across sectors; what changes is which constraints matter, where the cost sits and what a failure looks like. A two-hour delay is a rounding error on a bulk energy movement and a serious incident on a just-in-sequence automotive line. Design has to start from that difference.
Transportation & Logistics
Carriers, forwarders and logistics service providers running freight as their core business rather than a support function. Typical scope covers forwarding and freight order management, subcontracting, multi-modal planning, and settlement in both directions — customer billing as well as carrier cost. Standalone SAP TM is usually the right architecture here rather than embedded.
Discuss your transportation requirements
Manufacturing
Inbound component flow is the constraint that matters: a late delivery stops a line, and the cost of that dwarfs the freight saving. Work usually centres on inbound visibility, supplier and carrier collaboration, dock scheduling aligned to production sequence, and integration between transportation planning and MM/PP.
Discuss your manufacturing requirements
Retail & FMCG
High order counts, tight delivery windows and thin margins per unit. The value tends to come from consolidation and load optimisation across many small orders, delivery window compliance for retail DCs, and freight cost allocation accurate enough to reveal which customers and SKUs actually make money once delivery is included.
Discuss your retail requirements
Life Sciences & Pharma
Condition matters as much as location. Scope typically includes temperature and excursion monitoring through IoT-enabled visibility, chain-of-custody records that survive an audit, lane qualification, and exception handling designed around a much lower tolerance for delay than general freight.
Discuss your life sciences requirements
Automotive
Just-in-time and just-in-sequence flows leave very little slack. Emphasis falls on inbound transportation planning tied to production sequence, milk-run and consolidation modelling, yard and dock control at plant gates, and visibility precise enough to trigger a response while there is still time to act.
Discuss your automotive requirements
Energy & Utilities
Bulk movements and project cargo behave differently from parcel or pallet freight — specialised equipment, permits, route restrictions and oversize handling. Typical work covers modelling these constraints in transportation planning, managing multi-leg project shipments, and freight cost allocation onto capital projects.
Discuss your energy requirements
High Tech
Global supply chains with high-value, low-weight goods and frequent product transitions. Work usually centres on multi-modal air and ocean planning, integration across a fragmented systems landscape via SAP BTP, and visibility across long international lanes with several handovers.
Discuss your high tech requirementsLogistics Service Providers & 3PL
Serving many clients on shared assets, which makes multi-party collaboration and clean cost separation the central problems. Scope commonly includes Business Network onboarding at scale, client-facing visibility portals, subcontracting flows, and settlement that reconciles both client billing and carrier cost.
Discuss your logistics service providers requirements