Displaying the Product Availability Overview (SAP Library - SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO))

Displaying the Product Availability Overview

Use

The availability situation for a specific product in a given location is displayed in the product availability overview. The product availability check is carried out based on the business event that you chose.

Prerequisites

You maintained the ATP view in the location-specific product master data in APO. From the SAP APO screen, choose Navigation à Master Data à Product à ATP.

Procedure

From the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Global ATP à Reporting à Product Availability.

The APO Product Availability Overview: Initial Screen appears.

Enter the required check data.

Choose

(Execute).

The APO Product Availability Overview screen, which is divided into three frames, appears.

Results

In the top frame, you see information about the check data.

In the middle frame, an aggregated representation of product availability on location level is displayed. Using this display, you can quickly determine if a shortage situation exists. Choose (Totals display: Details), if you want to display how total receipts, requirements and confirmed requirements are allocated to the individual sublocations and versions.

In the bottom frame, the daily aggregated product availability situation for the chosen location product is displayed. A totals record with a receipt quantity (for stock and receipts), or a requirements quantity, a confirmed quantity (only for requirements), a cumulated ATP quantity and a discrete ATP quantity are displayed per date and category. Requirements are displayed with a negative indicator.

Choose...	if...
Refresh	you want to call the display again.
Period totals	you want to display the totals on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
Totals records	you want to display the aggregated totals records on a daily basis.
Single records	you want to display the document data as a single record. A totals record with a receipt quantity (for stock and receipts) or a requirements quantity, a confirmed quantity (for requirements only), a cumulated ATP quantity, and a discrete ATP quantity is broken down and displayed per date and category.
Scope of check	you want to display details about the settings that you made in the scope of check.
Checking horizon on / off	if you want to display or hide the documents after the end of the checking horizon.
Alert Monitor	you want to display shortages in the Alert Monitor. Note that the ATP alert active indicator must be set in the check instructions. For further information see Alert Monitor.
Settings ® Alert Monitor profile	you want to display or change the settings in the alert monitor profile.

Displaying the product availability overview beginning with the confirmation proposal

Choose (ATP) from the APO Availability Check: Confirmation Proposal screen. The simulated requirement is highlighted in colour in the Product availability frame.

Choose...	if...
Confirmation explanation	more than one partial confirmation exists for the requirements date. The section of the time axis of the cumulated ATP quantity, whose receipts contributed to the confirmation, is highlighted.
Shortage	a shortage exists; that is, if total receipts are smaller than total confirmed requirements, or smaller than total requirements (ATP group with cumulation 2 or 3 in the creation mode). The first requirements element with a negative ATP quantity appears highlighted.