You want to perform carrier selection for a freight order created in SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain for transportation management. Which of the following can you use as decision criteria? Note: There are…

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Options

• ACosts from charge management
• BPriority from transportation lane
• CPriority from carrier selection settings
• DCosts from shipment cost document

• A
  15% (8)
• B
  73% (38)
• D
  12% (6)

Explanation

In SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management, carrier selection relies on priority-based criteria rather than cost-based documents. Transportation lanes (B) store carrier-to-route assignments with explicit priority rankings, making them a direct input to the selection engine. Carrier selection settings (C) allow you to define and rank preferred carriers at the configuration level, which the system evaluates when proposing a carrier for a freight order.

Why A is wrong: Charge management handles freight rate calculation and invoicing - it is a downstream process that occurs after a carrier is selected, not a criterion that drives the selection itself.

Why D is wrong: Shipment cost documents belong to the classic SAP ECC Transportation (MM-TM/LE-TRA) world; they do not exist in the SAP S/4HANA TM freight order model. Mixing up ECC terminology with S/4HANA TM is a common trap on this exam.

Memory tip: Think "Priority, not Price" - carrier selection in SAP TM is driven by ranked priorities set on lanes (logistics network) and settings (configuration), while cost documents are either downstream (charge management) or from the wrong system generation (shipment cost document).

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