Using the Warehouse Activity Monitor
Prerequisites
Setting up a Variant
On the initial screen, you can enter a variant so that the system will display only those warehouse activity monitor objects that you want to see on your screen. If you do not enter a variant, all objects that have been activated for monitoring in Customizing appear for selection.
From the list of objects displayed, select the field Display for all objects that you want to see displayed on the screen for this variant.
The system displays the detail screen for defining variants.
Other entries on this screen are optional. The following table provides an example as to how you can use a few of these optional entries.
Optional Variant Limitations
Object |
Selection option |
Description |
Critical transfer orders |
Movement type |
The system only displays critical transfer orders for the movement types selected. |
|
Source storage type |
The system only displays transfer orders in a selected source storage type. | |
|
Destination storage type |
The system only displays transfer orders in a selected destination storage type. |
In the future, when you enter this variant on the initial screen, each time you call up the warehouse activity monitor, the system only displays the screen associated with this variant. The selection screen will only appear again if you leave the Variant field blank.
User Parameters
Once you have defined a variant, you can modify the user parameters so that each time a user selects the warehouse activity monitor from the WM menu, the variant assigned to that user automatically appears on the initial screen. To do this, select System ® User profile ® User parameters from any menu bar. Enter LVA in the Parameter ID (PID) field and the variant you defined in the Parameter value field.
Procedure
Once you have defined a variant, you proceed as follows to use the warehouse activity monitor.
The system displays the quantity of critical processes in the warehouse number and the date and time of the information.
The date-time-group displayed on the monitor depicts the time the data was actually retrieved from the system. You should set up your system to run reports as often as you believe is necessary.
You can update this information by positioning the cursor on one of the objects and choosing Edit
If you refresh the screen by selecting Edit
® Refresh, the system does not retrieve new data, but only refreshes the data on the current screen display.Status Indicators
Traffic light icons are used for each of the warehouse activity monitor objects to indicate their status. The color of the traffic light indicates the status as follows:
Warehouse Activity Monitor Status Indicators
Traffic light color |
Processing Status |
green |
No critical processes exist for this object. |
yellow |
Indicates that critical processes exist which are already being processed. Some activity has taken place, but these items have not been fully processed or corrected. |
red |
This object contains at least one critical process that has not been processed. |
Detail List Screen
To display a list of objects with more detailed information from the initial hierarchical tree, position the cursor on a category (for example, unconfirmed transfer orders or one of the subordinate categories) and select Edit
® Display details.
You can modify the way this screen displays data by selecting Settings
® Display variants ® Current.From the detail screens, you can carry out functions that are appropriate for each individual object, such as confirming an unconfirmed transfer order. For a description of each of these functions, see the section Additional Functions for each of the individual objects:
Unconfirmed Transfer Orders Open Transfer Requirements Open Posting Change Notices Open Deliveries Stock in Interim Storage Areas Negative Stock Inconsistencies in Stock Figures for Production Supply
See also:
Example: Displaying Unconfirmed Transfer Orders