Leveraging the Power of ChatGPT and SAP for Streamlined Supply Chain Management

SAP TM (Transportation Management) is a logistics software solution that helps businesses plan, execute, and monitor transportation and freight operations. It is designed to optimize transportation costs and improve service levels. Some of the key features of SAP TM include transportation planning, freight settlement, carrier selection, and shipment tracking.

What is ChatGPT?

• ChatGPT is a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI.
• It is based on transformer architecture and is trained on a diverse range of internet text, which makes it capable of generating human-like text.
• ChatGPT can be used for various natural language processing tasks such as language translation, text summarization, question answering, and text generation.

Use Cases for ChatGPT and SAP TM

1. Transportation Planning

One possible use case for integrating ChatGPT with SAP TM is in the area of transportation planning. ChatGPT can be used to generate transportation plans based on real-time data from the SAP TM system, such as current demand and capacity. This would allow businesses to respond quickly to changes in transportation needs and optimize their logistics operations.

2. Carrier Selection

Another use case for ChatGPT in SAP TM is in the area of carrier selection. ChatGPT can be used to analyze data on carrier performance, such as on-time delivery rates and cost efficiency, and generate recommendations for the best carrier to use for a given shipment.

3. Enhanced User Experience

From a functional perspective, ChatGPT can also be used to enhance the user experience of SAP TM by providing natural language interfaces for interacting with the system. For example, a user could ask ChatGPT questions about shipment status or transportation costs using natural language, and ChatGPT can provide the relevant information in a human-readable format.

4. Coding Assistance for ABAP Developers

ChatGPT can help ABAP developers in the SAP TM space with coding by providing suggestions and examples of code snippets for specific tasks. For instance, if a developer needs to create a new function module in SAP TM, they can ask ChatGPT for an example of similar function modules and receive a piece of sample code as a reference.

5. Troubleshooting

Additionally, ChatGPT can assist with troubleshooting by providing explanations of error messages and suggestions for fixing them. This can help developers save time and improve their productivity by reducing the need to search for code examples and solutions to common problems manually. ChatGPT can assist with ABAP coding in SAP TM, improving developer productivity and efficiency.

Summary

• ChatGPT can be integrated with SAP TM to provide advanced Natural Language Processing capabilities that can help businesses optimize their transportation and logistics operations.
• From a technical perspective, ChatGPT can be used to generate transportation plans and carrier selection recommendations.
• From a functional perspective, it can be used to enhance the user experience of SAP TM with natural language interfaces.
• ChatGPT can provide coding assistance for ABAP developers.
• ChatGPT can help troubleshoot code errors.

Real-life Examples of Some Features

Here are some of the tried features are shown below as examples:

1. Can you let me know the working of /SCMTMS/CL_TOR_D_ROOT_BS class?

2. Can you do a code review of the below code?

3. Create Freight Order in SAP TM using BOBF ABAP with Sample code

4. Code Completion by Playground - OpenAI API

GPT-4 is going to launch soon. And it will make ChatGPT look like a toy.

→ GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters

→ GPT-4 has 100 trillion parameters

Stay tuned for more updates.

This blog was originally published on LinkedIn by Surmeet Gill, Senior SAP TM/SCM Technical Consultant - ArchLynk