Carrier Cloud: Certified by DHL, DPD, FedEx, GLS, and UPS
Carrier Cloud: Certified by DHL, DPD, FedEx, GLS, and UPS

7,300+
customers

40+
years of experience

300+
connected carriers

800+
employees

Basics: Understanding multi-carrier shipping in SAP

What is multi-carrier shipping in SAP?

Multi-carrier shipping in SAP refers to the ability to handle the entire shipping process – carrier selection, label printing, freight cost determination, and shipment tracking – directly within the SAP system, without having to operate and maintain a separate, individual interface for every parcel service and forwarder.

Carrier Cloud for SAP provides a single, certified connection for this purpose. Your team can access over 300 connected forwarders and parcel services from SAP ECC, SAP EWM, SAP TM, or SAP S/4HANA / SAP Cloud ERP. For SAP Cloud ERP, a ready-to-use integration is available via the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).

SAP® TM
SAP® TM
SAP® TM
SAP® TM

Why this connection is crucial for SAP IT

For IT departments, the challenge is not the number of carriers, but rather their connection: Each individual interface must be created, certified, monitored, and updated whenever there is a system change. A multi-carrier platform decouples the SAP landscape from the individual carrier connections.

Approach

Individual integration per carrier

Significance for IT

Each connection is set up and maintained separately; certifications, updates, and disruptions must be handled individually. Workload increases with each service provider.

Multi-carrier platform (Carrier Cloud for SAP)

All carriers are managed via a single license and interface. AEB handles maintenance, certifications, and updates; the IT department is only responsible for a single SAP-side connection.

Who is the solution intended for?

  • SAP IT and enterprise architects who need a Clean-Core-compliant carrier connection without modifications to the SAP core.
  • Persons responsible for S/4HANA transformations who want to avoid having to rebuild every carrier interface during the migration.
  • Logistics and shipping teams that manage multiple transport service providers in SAP and want to reduce manual effort.

Clean Core and S/4HANA: future-proof connection

Easy implementation of Clean Core strategies

Carrier Cloud for SAP helps you consistently adhere to your Clean Core strategy. No changes are made to the SAP core. Instead, the solution relies on a cloud-native architecture with deep functional integration. You can thus avoid potential sources of error and remain independent of SAP change cycles.

SAP S/4 extensibility with AEB: Clean core made easy
SAP S/4 extensibility with AEB: Clean core made easy
SAP S/4 extensibility with AEB: Clean core made easy
SAP S/4 extensibility with AEB: Clean core made easy

Extensibility for Private Cloud, Public Cloud, and On-Premise

AEB offers the right type of integration regardless of the operating model of your SAP S/4HANA system:

  • Developer extensibility – on-stack extensions in the ABAP Cloud development model.
  • Classic extensibility – classic add-on for existing landscapes.
  • Side-by-side extensibility – decoupled, with or without the SAP Business Technology Platform.

Simplify your SAP S/4HANA transformation

If your SAP landscape changes, only the connection to Carrier Cloud for SAP needs to be updated. The connection to the more than 300 transport service providers remains stable. This makes the transformation more predictable and ensures that the carrier landscape remains unaffected by the system migration.

In action: one solution, all shipping functions – directly in SAP

Carrier Cloud for SAP fully maps the operational shipping process within SAP. All functions use the same connection and the same carrier network:

  • Automated shipping orders from SAP documents – for all transport routes and types (packages, pallets, LTL/FTL containers).
  • Label generation in native printer language from SAP – fully automated and flexibly integrated.
  • High-performance printing for laser, thermal, and industrial printers, as well as connection to labeling systems.
  • Ship hazardous goods in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
  • Multi-package shipments / package-by-package processing.
  • Shipment tracking and entry certificate – status directly in the SAP system, integrated into the Fiori launchpad.
  • Shipment-specific determination of freight costs with direct transfer to SAP.

Some of the multi-carrier features in SAP

Overview displaying all shipping orders from all transport partners – including current status
Overview displaying all shipping orders from all transport partners – including current status

Shipping status tracking directly in SAP

Overview displaying all shipping orders from all transport partners – including current status
Overview displaying all shipping orders from all transport partners – including current status

Cockpit view of all shipping orders in SAP

Overview displaying all shipping orders from all transport partners – including current status
Overview displaying all shipping orders from all transport partners – including current status

Multi-carrier shipping integrated in Fiori Launchpad

Overview displaying all shipping orders from all transport partners – including current status
Overview displaying all shipping orders from all transport partners – including current status

Multi-carrier shipping directly in SAP EWM

Freight costs in SAP – simple, up-to-date, and reliable

The add-on automatically determines freight costs for each consignment and transfers them directly to SAP. For DHL Express, UPS, and FedEx, rates are retrieved in real time via API; for all other carriers, costs are based on individually agreed freight rates, which AEB manages entirely. This relieves you of the burden of maintaining rate tables, and ensures reliable freight costs directly within the shipping process.

More information on freight rate management and freight cost calculation with AEB Carrier Cloud

All inclusive: 300+ parcel services and forwarders, one license

The entire carrier network is accessible with a single license. New service providers can be added without the need for an additional integration project.

Proven in practice

More than 1,000 companies use AEB software to complement their SAP systems. AEB has been optimizing its customers' supply chains for over 40 years; the company is employee-owned and focused on long-term partnerships.

Selected success stories

Cloud fees for the AEB shipping platform

Pricing Model Carrier Cloud for SAP
EUR
CHF
GBP
USD
SEK
Basic
10,000
Shipments per year
 
Cloud fee
From 530 EUR / month
From 636 CHF / month
From 477 GBP / month
From 663 USD / month
From 5,565 SEK / month

0.2053 EUR for each additional consignment
plus setup fee
0.2464 CHF for each additional consignment
plus setup fee
0.1848 GBP for each additional consignment
plus setup fee
0.2565 USD for each additional consignment
plus setup fee
2.156 SEK for each additional consignment
plus setup fee

Features and add-ons
  • Including 1 add-on for SAP®
  • Creation of shipping orders from various SAP documents
  • Status monitor with overview of all shipping orders
  • Creation of documents such as labels, loading lists, or waybills and automated printing of labels
  • Specific transport service provider data reported back to SAP®
  • Track & trace data incl. synchronization to SAP®
  • Each additional add-on for SAP® (310 EUR / month)
  • Reporting & Analytics (35 / month)
  • CO2 measurement & reporting by Gryn (from 500 EUR / month)
  • Entry certificate (225 EUR / month)
  • Freight Cost Estimation (from 230 EUR / month)
Business
100,000
Shipments per year
 
Cloud fee
From 1,300 EUR / month
From 1,560 CHF / month
From 1,170 GBP / month
From 1,625 USD / month
From 13,650 SEK / month

0.0803 EUR for each additional consignment
plus setup fee
0.0963 CHF for each additional consignment
plus setup fee
0.0722 GBP for each additional consignment
plus setup fee
0.1003 USD for each additional consignment
plus setup fee
0.8428 SEK for each additional consignment
plus setup fee

Features and add-ons
  • Including 1 add-on for SAP®
  • Creation of shipping orders from various SAP documents
  • Status monitor with overview of all shipping orders
  • Creation of documents such as labels, loading lists, or waybills and automated printing of labels
  • Specific transport service provider data reported back to SAP®
  • Track & trace data incl. synchronization to SAP®
  • Each additional add-on for SAP® (560 EUR / month)
  • Reporting & Analytics (75 EUR / month)
  • CO2 measurement & reporting by Gryn (from 500 EUR / month)
  • Entry certificate (475 EUR / month)
  • Freight Cost Estimation (from 485 EUR / month)
Enterprise
1,000,000
Shipments per year
 
Cloud fee
From 4,310 EUR / month
From 5,172 CHF / month
From 3,879 GBP / month
From 5,388 USD / month
From 45,255 SEK / month

0.0517 EUR for each additional consignment
plus setup fee
0.0621 CHF for each additional consignment
plus setup fee
0.0465 GBP for each additional consignment
plus setup fee
0.0647 USD for each additional consignment
plus setup fee
0.5431 SEK for each additional consignment
plus setup fee

Features and add-ons
  • Including 1 add-on for SAP®
  • Creation of shipping orders from various SAP documents
  • Status monitor with overview of all shipping orders
  • Creation of documents such as labels, loading lists, or waybills and automated printing of labels
  • Specific transport service provider data reported back to SAP®
  • Track & trace data incl. synchronization to SAP®
  • Each additional add-on for SAP® (690 EUR / month)
  • Reporting & Analytics (385 EUR / month)
  • CO2 measurement & reporting by Gryn (from 500 EUR / month)
  • Entry certificate (950 EUR / month)
  • Freight Cost Estimation (from 950 EUR / month)
Enterprise+
2,500,000
Shipments per year
 
Cloud fee
On request
On request
On request
On request
On request

Contact us for detailed information and pricing on the Enterprise+ model
Contact us for detailed information and pricing on the Enterprise+ model
Contact us for detailed information and pricing on the Enterprise+ model
Contact us for detailed information and pricing on the Enterprise+ model
Contact us for detailed information and pricing on the Enterprise+ model

Features and add-ons
  • Including 1 add-on for SAP®
  • Creation of shipping orders from various SAP documents
  • Status monitor with overview of all shipping orders
  • Creation of documents such as labels, loading lists, or waybills and automated printing of labels
  • Specific transport service provider data reported back to SAP®
  • Track & trace data incl. synchronization to SAP®
  • Each additional add-on for SAP® (860 EUR / month)
  • Reporting & Analytics (463.50 EUR / month)
  • CO2 measurement & reporting by Gryn (from 500 EUR / month)
  • Entry certificate (1,050 EUR / month)
  • Freight Cost Estimation (1.090 EUR / month)

Optional add-ons include: additional add-ons for SAP, reporting and analytics, CO2 measurement by Gryn, entry certificate, and determination of freight costs.

Integration partners and partner program

A network of experienced integration partners serve as local experts to support you during implementation, drawing on their many years of consulting, project, and SAP expertise.

Become a partner for Carrier Cloud for SAP

Andrej Grohar, expert for multi-carrier shipping directly in SAP®
Andrej Grohar, expert for multi-carrier shipping directly in SAP®

Andrej Grohar, expert for multi-carrier shipping directly in SAP®

Talk to our experts

Find out how Carrier Cloud for SAP integrates into your SAP landscape in a personalized online demo or a one-on-one conversation. Andrej Grohar and the AEB team will advise you on integration, Clean Core, and your specific shipping process.

Frequently asked questions about multi-carrier shipping in SAP