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New Planning Workbench with Integrated Online Planning 

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SAP Retail

The Planning Workbench is a working environment for stock planners. It includes Online Planning and an Internet connection. The stock planner can use the Online Planning function to gain an overview of the purchase orders placed with an external vendor and then decide whether additional quantities or materials have to be ordered. For further information, see the Release Information on Online Planning.

The Planning Workbench provides you with a worklist, from which you can go directly to the Online Planning application at the click of the mouse. The worklist is laid out in an easy-to-read fashion. The display of the worklist and, indeed, of the application can be changed to suit yourself. The main features of the Planning Workbench include:

• Use of the Online Planning application

• Display of the worklist in tree format (simple navigation)

• Display of additional information from the Online Planning worklist (for example, you can go directly to plant or vendor master data)

• Link to the Internet (WWW, mail program) directly from the worklist

• Worklist can be displayed in different formats, for example:

• The application can be displayed in different formats