Analytical Functions 

Purpose

This component provides you with analytical functions that make the shift from an administration-oriented to a strategically-oriented warehouse easier for you.

Key figure functions and functions for graphical analysis, monitoring or control, enable you to analyze your warehouse. They help you to analyze and optimize the current warehouse situation.

After analyzing the planned and current data, you can develop, implement, and monitor strategies to increase the efficiency of your warehouse. You can also continuously check the effects different scenarios have on your planning goals.

Implementation Considerations

If you company uses BI Content for the data analysis, BI Content SAP NW 2004s BI Content Add-on 3 SP06 for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) is available to you, under Supply Chain Management ® Extended Warehouse Management ® 0WM.

In BI Content, you can create Queries through workbooks for strategic planning, or plan strategically. This is a planning example, with which you can use delivery items from the past to plan the required employees for each warehouse for the next two months.

For more information, see SAP Library for SAP NetWeaver under SAP NetWeaver Library -> SAP NetWeaver by Key Capability -> Information Integration by Key Capability -> BI Content -> Supply Chain Management -> Extended Warehouse Management ® Queries.

If you use BI Content, you extract data from the EWM system into BI Content by using DataSources. You make the settings required for this in Customizing for the source system. You have to:

●      Copy the DataSources and postprocess them where necessary

●      Configure the posting mode

●      Activate the BI update

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) under Interfaces ® SAP Business Information Warehouse ® Business Content DataSources or ® General Settings.

If you are using the Warehouse Cockpit as an example implementation of the Easy Graphics Framework (EGF) and want to enhance it, make the required settings in the Easy Graphics Framework.

For more information, see Easy Graphics Framework.

Features

EWM System

In EWM, you can use the following areas and functions with BI Content:

●      Customizing (copy and postprocess DataSources, configure posting mode, activate BI update, make settings for the Easy Graphics Framework, measurement services, make settings that are Labor-Management-relevant for operational planning and simulation)

●      Master data processing (create processor, create formulas and conditions)

●      Operational planning and simulation (create planning formulas, configure preprocessing)

●      You can use the measurement services to record your warehouse key figures and have the system define them automatically.

●      In the Warehouse Cockpit, you can display the measurement services graphically, enabling you to monitor your warehouse key figures visually.

You can also run the measurement services in the background, using a report. You can then write the results to the database. You can specify a lower and upper limit value for each measurement service. If this value is then exceeded or fallen short, an exception that you have specified can be triggered. You can evaluate these exceptions in the warehouse management monitor. The exceptions can be used for automated follow-on actions, such as notifications.

●      There are also other evaluation options available to you in the warehouse management monitor. You can use the nodes Labor Utilization and Executed Workload to analyze the efficiency of your employees, for example.

BI Content

BI Content is another option that you can use to analyze your data. Here you can extract data from the EWM system using the following DataSources:

●      Executed workload (0WM_EWL)

●      Warehouse task (0WM_WT_WO)

●      Warehouse orders (0WM_WO)

●      Value-added services (0WM_VAS)

●      Delivery-item-related execution data (0WM_PL_DLVI)

●      Measurement service descriptions (0WM_MS_TEXT)

●      Measurement service results (0WM_MS_RESULT)

●      Exception code (0WM_EXCODE)

●      Delivery items (0WM_DLVI)

●      Storage bins (0WM_BIN)

You can use the extracted data to create Queries, and plan strategically.