Transport Management System (TMS): Basics

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The Transport Management System (TMS) allows transports between different R/3 Systems to be administered centrally.

The TMS classifies R/3 Systems into transport groups and transport domains:
A transport group consists of all R/3 Systems that can access a common transport directory.
A transport domain consists of one or more transport groups.
To enable transports to be administered centrally, it must be possible to administer all systems in the transport domain from a designated R/3 System, called the transport domain controller.


For the administration of transports, the following information is stored centrally:

The systems participating in the transports

Their transport routes

This configuration data does not need to be set manually in every R/3 System. Instead, using RFC, the transport domain controller distributes the data to all participating R/3 Systems.