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Define Critical Parameters

In this section you define critical parameters for warehouse monitor objects. By specifying critical parameters for warehouse monitor objects, you define when a situation or an activity is to be classified as critical by the warehouse activity monitor. The definition of critical parameters is a prerequisite so that the warehouse activity monitor can determine critical situations and activities, and also display them. The following sections describe how you define critical parameters for each warehouse activity monitor object.

Unconfirmed Transfer Orders

For the warehouse monitor object "Unconfirmed transfer orders" you need to define the following parameters:

• Critical Time Period with Time Unit
  An unconfirmed transfer order is viewed by the warehouse monitor as critical if the transfer order exists for a period longer than the critical time period.

• Calendar
  By specifying a calendar you can refer to a factory calendar stored in the system. In this way you ensure that non-working days (weekends, public holidays, and so on) are not included in the calculation as long as an unconfirmed transfer order exists.

You can make the critical time period depend on the warehouse number, the movement type, and on the source and destination storage types of the transfer order. You can specify a masked entry (***) for the source and destination storage types. The entries in this case apply to all storage types.

Open Transfer Orders

For the warehouse monitor object "Open Transfer Orders", you need to maintain the following parameters:

• Critical Time Period and Time Unit
  The meaning of the critical time period is defined in this case through the specification of the date reference in the reference document.

• Date Reference in the Reference Document
  Here you can define whether the critical time period refers to the creation date and time or to the planned date and time in the transfer order. In the first case, all those transfer orders that are not "completely" delivered and are already in the system for a time longer than the critical time period are recognized by the warehouse monitor as being critical. In the second case, a transfer requirement is viewed by the warehouse monitor as being critical if, up to the time of the planned staging deadline, there are less days than the number of days defined for the critical time period.

• Calendar
  By specifying a calendar you can refer to a factory calendar. In this way you ensure that non-working days (weekends, public holidays, and so on) are not included in the calculation.

• Critical time period and time unit for "Immediate TO Creation"
  For transfer requirements whose corresponding transfer order is created through "Immediate TO creation" when the transfer requirement itself is created, you can define a second time period. If you specify a critical time period here, the system will classify transfer orders created through "Immediate TO creation" if the creation time of the transfer requirement is further in the past than allowed by the critical time period and the transfer requirement does not yet have the status "completely delivered". For transfer requirements without "Immediate TO creation", this critical time period does not apply.

Open Posting Change Notices

For the warehouse monitor object "Open Posting Change Notices" you need to define the following critical parameters:

• Critical Time Period and Time Unit
  A posting change notice is viewed by the warehouse monitor as critical if the posting change notice exists already longer than the critical time period and has not yet received the status "posting change complete".

• Calendar
  By specifying a calendar you can refer to a factory calendar stored in the system. In this way you ensure that non-working days (weekends, public holidays, and so on) are not included in the calculation.

• Critical Time Period and Time Unit for "Immediate To Creation"
  For posting change notices where the respective transfer order is created by "Immediate TO Creation" upon creation of the posting change notice itself, you can define a second critical time period. If you specify a critical time period here, the posting changes notices with "Immediate TO creation" are classified as critical if the creation time of the posting change notice is longer than the critical time period and the posting change notice does not have the status "posting change complete". For posting change notices without "Immediate TO creation" the specified critical time period does not apply.

You can define the critical parameters for this warehouse monitor object for each warehouse number and movement type.

Open Deliveries

For the warehouse monitor object "Open Deliveries" you need to define the following critical parameters:

• Critical Time Period and Time Unit
  A delivery is classified by the warehouse activity monitor as critical if:

• Calendar
  By specifying a calendar, you can refer to a factory calendar stored in the system. In this wave you ensure that non-working days (weekends, public holidays, and so on) are not included in the calculation.

• Select partially processed deliveries
  With this indicator you can control whether the warehouse monitor should only display completely unprocessed deliveries as critical deliveries, or whether it should display deliveries where processing has already commenced, but has not yet been completed.

You can define these parameters for each warehouse number.

Negative Stock

For the warehouse monitor object "Negative Stock" you need to define the following critical parameters:

• Critical Time Period and Time Unit
  All negative stocks are viewed by the warehouse monitor as critical if they are in the system for longer than the critical time period.

• Calendar
  By specifying a calendar you can refer to a factory calendar that is stored in the system. In this way you ensure that non-working days (weekends, public holidays, and so on) are not included in the calculation.

• Indicator for Dynamic Storage Bin
  With this indicator you can control that the warehouse monitor informs you of negative stocks that are in dynamic storage bins. If you do not set this indicator, all negative stocks that are in the system for longer than the critical time period are displayed by the warehouse activity monitor.

You can define the critical time period and the indicator for dynamic storage bin for each warehouse number and storage type.

Interim Storage Stocks Without Movement

For the warehouse monitor object "Interim Storage Stocks Without Movement" you need to define the following parameters:

• Critical Time Period and Time Unit
  The warehouse monitor classifies all stocks with a quantity greater than zero in the interim storage types as critical if the last movement for this material stock is further in the past than the time defined by the critical time period.

• Calendar
  By specifying a calendar, you can refer to a factory calendar that is stored in the system. In this way you ensure that non-working days (weekends, public holidays, and so on) are not included in the calculation.

• Indicator for Dynamic Storage Bin
  You must set this indicator if you solely wish to have stocks on dynamic storage bins in the interim storage type monitored.

You can define the critical parameters of this warehouse monitor object for each warehouse number and storage type.

Standard Settings

In the standard SAP system, default values for the critical parameters are supplied for all warehouse monitor objects in warehouse number "001". Check these default values and modify them, if necessary, before you copy them into your own warehouse number.

Recommendation

You should set the critical time period so that the warehouse monitor only displays processes and situations where it is obvious that the activies are not being processed correctly in the warehouse.

For example, you should set the critical time period for the warehouse monitor object "Unconfirmed Transfer Orders" so that, in the normal situation, all transfer orders are confirmed within the critical time period.

Activities

Enter the critical parameters for each warehouse monitor object that you have activated.