Warehouse Cockpit 

Purpose

You can use the Warehouse Cockpit to display your warehouse key figures and defined Easy Graphics Framework objects (EGF objects) graphically, and to evaluate or monitor them using defined chart types. It enhances text-based SAP solutions, and was developed to be implemented in a strategically oriented warehouse. It supports new processes, such as working with analytical functions when managing a warehouse using Extended Warehouse Management (EWM).

The Warehouse Cockpit displays the measurement services delivered by SAP and created by you.

It is an example implementation of the Easy Graphics Framework (EGF), delivered by SAP, which contains overdue objects and objects of the material flow system (MFS). You can display the utilization and resource situation of your warehouse using the objects you have defined.

The figure shows the EGF objects bars, stacks, speedometer and time for the example for open physical inventory documents.

 

Implementation Considerations

If your firm wants to implement the Warehouse Cockpit, and the objects or chart types delivered in the example implementation are not enough for you, you must use the Easy Graphics Framework (EGF) in Customizing for EWM to extend the EGF settings and define additional objects or chart types.

For more information about the Easy Graphics Framework, see Easy Graphics Framework.

Features

●      The system displays newly created measurement services in the Warehouse Cockpit automatically. You must include the measurement services in the menu tree by choosing Show Hidden Objects. You can then use Drag&Drop to move the measurement service to the corresponding folder Measurement Service.

●      If you display a measurement service either by double-clicking it or via the menu, it is redefined after intervals that are specified in the refresh rate.

●      If the threshold values defined in the measurement services are exceeded or fallen short, the system triggers an exception. You define exceptions in Customizing for EWM.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM under Cross-Process Settings → Exception Handling → Define Exception Codes.

 

The delivered Warehouse Cockpit contains the following EGF objects:

●      Measurement services

●      Material flow system (MFS)

○       Status of communication channel

○       Status of communication layer

○       Status of process for telegram repetition

○       Status of MFS resource

●      Overdue objects

○       Overdue warehouse tasks

○       Overdue warehouse orders

○       Overdue waves

○       Warehouse tasks time series

○       Warehouse orders time series

 

The following chart types are available for the measurement services:

●      Bars

●      Stacks

●      Time

●      Speedometer

●      Table

 

The following chart types are available for the objects of the material flow system:

●      Traffic light

●      Table

 

The following chart types are available for overdue objects:

●      Bars

●      Stacks

●      Time

●      Table