Measurement Services 
Use
You use this function to define your own warehouse key figures supported by the system. You map your key figures using tailored and calculated measurement services (TMS and CMS). You start these using the program Start Measurement Services, which you can schedule to run regularly. Examples of warehouse key figures include:
● Outbound deliveries that have left the warehouse too late
● Number of open physical inventory documents that are older than 5 days old
● Number of handling units in goods receipt
These warehouse key figures can be called at any time, and represent tools which the warehouse manager can use to check and plan his warehouse more effectively.
He does not have to track his warehouse key figures constantly on the screen, instead he can trigger alerts if certain values are exceeded or fallen short.
Measurement services are output in the base unit of measure of the warehouse.
Integration
The determined key figures are used in the following functions:
● Warehouse management monitor, for creating a tailored measurement service (TMS) under certain conditions
● Operational planning in Labor Management and for calculating engineered labor standards
● Warehouse Cockpit, to monitor the results graphically
● BI Content of Extended Warehouse Management (0WM)
Features
Measurement services are based on one another:
● A tailored measurement service (TMS) is based on a basic measurement service (BMS) selected by you. BMSs are the building blocks of your warehouse key figures, and cannot be uses on their own.
You can split these up into BMS groups, according to your business requirements. A BMS is a query to a business object, which the system executes without the user having to make an entry. Examples of BMSs are number of inbound deliveries, or number of warehouse tasks.
● A calculated measurement service (CMS) is a mathematic formula. It consists of:
○ One or more CMSs
○ One or more TMSs
○ A mathematic function
You define the measurement services on the SAP Easy Accessscreen, by choosing Extended Warehouse Management ® Settings ® Measurement Services, or in Customizing for EWM under Monitoring ® Measurement Services.
For each key figure you can do the following:
● Define upper and lower threshold values
● Define exception codes if these values are exceeded or fallen short
● Trigger a workflow based on exception codes, such as creating a warehouse task
● Trigger an alert based on exception codes, such as sending a message
Activities
1. SAP delivery BMS groups and individual BMSs. If you want to add more groups or BMSs, in Customizing for EWM, choose Monitoring ® Measurement Service ® Define Basic Measurement Service Group or Define Basic Measurement Service (BMS).
If you want to define your own BMS, enter a function module that you have created for the selection screen and selection.
2. You can choose to create a TMS and CMS using a view or a wizard. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Settings ® Measurement Services, or in Customizing for EWM choose Monitoring ® Measurement Services.
3. You schedule and plan the measurement services regularly using program Start Measurement Services.
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Example
A warehouse manager wants to know each morning how many warehouse orders a processor has executed the previous day. For this he makes the following settings:
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1. He starts by defining a TMS based on the BMS he requires. He selects BMS 1 “Number of Warehouse Orders“ and BMS 2 ”Number of Processors“.
2. He then adjusts these to match his requirements, by creating selection variants 1 and 2.
3. He creates CMS 1 in the formula editor in such a away that TMS 1 is divided by TMS 2. As a result, he is given the number of warehouse orders per processor, for example 40 warehouse orders per processor.
The figure below shows how the individual measurement services are based on one another.
