Alert Monitor (SAP Library - Supply Chain Monitoring)

Alert Monitor

Purpose

The Alert Monitor is a standalone component of APO that enables you to have a unified approach to handling problem situations. It notifies you if a problem occurs during an ATP check or SNP run, or when production plans, demand plans or vehicle schedules are being generated in one of the APO applications.

The Alert Monitor is a tool with which planners can monitor the state of a plan. Based on the monitoring process, the plan can be readjusted whenever necessary. The purpose of the Alert Monitor is to inform planners if a condition of a plan has been violated.

Implementation Considerations

The Alert Monitor belongs to the suite of supply chain monitoring components in APO, together with the Supply Chain Cockpit and the Plan Monitor. It can be used by any supply chain manager or planner who practices exception-based management in the following areas:

Demand Planning (DP)
Supply Network Planning (SNP)
Production Planning/Detailed Scheduling PP/DS
Available-to-Promise (ATP)
TLB/Deployment
Vehicle Scheduling (VS)

Integration

The Alert Monitor is fully integrated in all the functional applications of APO. Which alerts are displayed depends entirely upon the context and must be defined in the alert profiles. For example, in the APO application Available to Promise (ATP), only ATP alerts are displayed, or only alerts relevant to certain objects. The display of alerts is also model/version dependent.

Features

Detected exceptions are automatically available in the Alert Monitor

Alerts are displayed in standard presentation component

You can take action on the APO alert by drilling down into the relevant application
You can navigate inside an application using the Alert Monitor (for example, with a double click in the product planning table)

Alerts are prioritized by levels including information, warning and error. Alert types are automatically assigned a specific priority level, but you can change the level in Customizing. You can also set threshold values in the alert profiles.

There are various alternatives for viewing APO alerts:

The Alert Monitor window either as a stand alone component or accessed through the SCC menu displays ALL alerts
The Alert Monitor miniapp

In the miniapp, you can either view a list of alerts or a statistical display. To view alerts, you must first maintain favorites in the stand alone Alert Monitor, and then assign the settings to the user in the Internet planning book by clicking on the hyperlink.

SCC control panel filters alerts by application (customizing required!)
Individual applications (for example, in PP/DS product view , product planning table)

If you access alerts through the monitoring slots in the SCC control panel, you will see only the application-specific alerts or alerts for individual products, locations and resources. For more information, see APO Document: Supply Chain Cockpit.

From the Cockpit, you can resolve problems through direct access to the corresponding transactions via context menus. You can also resolve problems through the respective application Alert Monitors.

When you access the Monitor from the control panel, the resulting window contains the name of the application in the header. If you access it through the menu, the window heading reads Alert Monitor

For more detailed information, see also:

Alert Monitor Settings Maintenance

Exception Based Management

The Alert Monitor Window