Product View  

Definition

An evaluation screen in Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling that provides an overview of the current stock/requirements situation for a product in a location and a planning version, as well as various planning functions.

Use

This evaluation provides you with an overview of the current stock/requirements situation of a product and allows you to interactively change order dates and quantities. You can also:

Structure

The product view comprises header data and four tabs:

The header data contains information on the product, location, planning version and days' supply. Up to three different days' supply types can be displayed (if you have entered these days' supply types in Customizing for Supply Chain Planning, in the IMG activity Global Parameters and Defaults). The days' supply provides information on the number of days before stock falls below zero for a product.

The elements list displays all existing receipt elements and requirement elements of a product in the location, along with information on dates, quantities, and alerts. You can change the dates and quantities of the orders. To access the order processing screen for an order, double-click the order in this view.

On the Period tab you can display the period totals. The following information appears:

The result of requirements and receipts being settled against each other.

Starting from the defined end of the day, the actual days' supply specifies how many hours the available quantity will cover requirements.

Receipts are added together for a period (for example, for each day). You can display the individual elements in the period view by double-clicking on Total receipts in the table.

Requirements are added together for a period (for example, for each day). You can display the individual elements in the period view by double-clicking Total requirements in the table.

In this view, you can see how much stock of a product is in each of the locations to which the product is assigned. Any stock assigned to an account is listed separately. The storage location, batch, category and unit of measure are also displayed. By double-clicking a location node in this view, the product view for the product in this location is displayed.

The product master for the location product is displayed. This enables you to check product master settings to understand the planning results without exiting the screen.

Integration

In addition, you can: