Stocking/Destocking Approval

This query is assigned to the Action Required category. It contains all open stocking or destocking decisions. A stocking or destocking decision is open if the following cases apply:

The planner can navigate from this query to the Stocking/Destocking Approval screen and approve or change the modified replenishment indicator there. To display additional information, the planner can, for example, navigate to the SPP Cockpit and Product Detail screens.

Stocking/Destocking

This query is assigned to the Monitoring category. It contains information about stocking and destocking decisions made by the system. The planner can view, for example, the modified replenishment indicator, the original indicator, who changed it, and when it was changed. To display additional information, the planner can, for example, navigate to the following screens:

STO Approval

This query is assigned to the Action Required category. It contains all stock transport orders generated by Deployment or the inventory balancing service that the planner has to approve manually. If the planner is responsible only for the stock transport orders of one of the two planning applications, he or she can specify in the selection criteria that only stock transport orders generated by the relevant planning application should be displayed. The planner can either approve and reject stock transport orders in the query directly or navigate to the Deployment and Inventory Balancing screen for this purpose. To display additional information, the planner can, for example, navigate to the SPP Cockpit and Product Detail screens.

STO

This query is assigned to the Monitoring category. It contains all stock transport orders generated by the system, as well as stock transport orders already approved or rejected.

To display additional information, the planner can, for example, navigate to the following screens:

Procurement Approval

This query is assigned to the Action Required category. It contains all procurement documents (such as orders and scheduling agreement releases) generated by Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) that must be approved manually. The planner can either approve and reject procurement documents in the query directly or navigate to the External Procurement - Delivery Schedule Maintenance screen for this purpose. To display additional information, the planner can, for example, navigate to the following screens:

Procurement

This query is assigned to the Monitoring category. It contains all procurement documents generated by the system, as well as procurement documents already approved or rejected. To display additional information, the planner can, for example, navigate to the following screens:

Surplus Approval

This query is assigned to the Action Required category. It contains all surplus quantities that the planner has to approve or reject manually. The planner can navigate from this query to the Surplus and Obsolescence Approval screen and approve or reject the surplus quantities. To display additional information, the planner can, for example, navigate to the SPP Cockpit and Product Detail screens.

Forecast Approval

This query is assigned to the Action Required category. It contains all forecast results that the planner has to approve or change manually. The planner can approve the forecast results in the query directly or navigate to the Interactive Forecasting screen to change them manually. To display additional information, the planner can, for example, navigate to the following screens:

Critical Products

This query is assigned to the Monitoring category. It contains products classed as critical or potentially critical by the shortage analysis. To display additional information about these products and to intervene in the planning process if required, the planner can, for example, navigate to the following screens:

You can also mark an entry as viewed, modify the On Hold Until date, and save these changes.

Supplier Overview of Critical Products

This query is assigned to the Monitoring category. It contains the number of products for each supplier that were classed as critical, potentially critical, or not critical by the shortage analysis. It also contains information about the number of backorder items, backorder products, backorder quantity, overdue schedule lines, overdue scheduling quantity.

Critical Sales Orders

This query is assigned to the Monitoring category. It contains all critical sales orders. The system rates all sales orders as critical that are completely or partly in backorder. You can navigate to the Product Detail screen from this query.

Alerts (Type-Based)

This query is assigned to the Alerts category. It contains a statistical overview of existing alerts. In this query, the system displays the number of existing alerts per alert type for every alert priority (for example, High) and alert status (for example, In Process). The planner can select one of the numbers displayed and, in this way, navigate to the Alert Monitor to obtain additional information about these alerts.

Alerts (Product-Based)

This query is assigned to the Alerts category. It contains a statistical overview of existing alerts. In this query, the system displays the number of existing alerts per product for every alert priority (for example, High) and alert status (for example, In Process). The planner can select one of the numbers displayed and, in this way, navigate to the Alert Monitor to obtain additional information about these alerts.

Alerts (Location-Based)

This query is assigned to the Alerts category. It contains a statistical overview of existing alerts. In this query, the system displays the number of existing alerts per location for every alert priority (for example, High) and alert status (for example, In Process). The planner can select one of the numbers displayed and, in this way, navigate to the Alert Monitor to obtain additional information about these alerts.

Safety Stock Approval

This query is assigned to the Action Required category. It contains all the economic order quantity (EOQ) and safety stock planning results that the planner has to approve. The planner can approve the EOQ/safety stock planning results in the query directly or navigate to the EOQ/Safety Stock Planning screen to approve them. To display additional information, the planner can, for example, navigate to the following screens: