Archiving of Visit Lists (LE-DSD-VC)

Definition

Visit lists are archived and deleted using the archiving object /DSD/VC.

Note Note

The system generates visit lists for day-to-day business from the planning tool Visit Plan . The visit lists contain all the necessary information from the visit plans (such as data on the tour, shipment, and customer) so that a driver can execute a tour. All visit plans are defined with a validity period. Once the system has generated the visit lists from the visit plans, or if the validity period of the visit plans has expired, the system no longer requires them. Since the visit lists contain all required data from the visit plans, the visit plans do not have to be archived separately. The user can determine when the system should delete visit plans that are no longer required (after a specific residence time has elapsed).

End of the note.

Use

Visit lists define the tour that a driver executes, and also document the tour. Visit lists are only archived if they are not used in Visit Control in the Direct Store Delivery component, for example, if the tour is complete or a visit list is no longer valid. For checking purposes, such as when a customer has made a complaint, the system can also make the visit lists available for reading after archiving.

You can display the logs for the write programs in one of two forms:

  • Log (summary)

    Grouped display based on analog message texts with reference to a sample data record from a related archiving object.

  • Log (detail)

    Individual display of all archiving objects belonging to an archiving run, including message texts.

For more information about the logs generated during archiving, see Logs .

Structure

Tables

If you use the archiving object /DSD/VC, data is archived from the following tables:

Table

Table name

/DSD/VC_VLH

DSD: Visit List – Header Data

/DSD/VC_VLH_R

DSD: Visit List – Header Data: Reference Documents

/DSD/VC_VLP

DSD: Visit List – Item Data

/DSD/VC_VLP_R

DSD: Visit List – Item Data: Reference Documents

NAST

Message Status

Text (archiving class)

SAPscript texts
Programs

The following programs are delivered for /DSD/VC:

Program

Function

/DSD/VC_VL_ARC_WRITE

Write

/DSD/VC_VL_ARC_DELETE

Delete

Integration

Displaying archived visit lists

To display archived visit lists using the Archive Information System, you need the archive information structure /DSD/VC_IS_01 (DSD visit list), which has been created on the basis of the SAP standard field catalog /DSD/VC_FC_01 (DSD visit list).

The archive information structure must be set up and active before the system can use it.

For more information about archive information structures, see Using the Archive Information System .