Planned and Executed Workload 

Use

The system uses this function for each external process step and activity area to automatically create a document for the planned workload. You use this document as a basis for planning your resources. After performing the work, you can use the executed workload to compare the planned and actual durations. You can forward the result of your evaluation to an HR system, using a performance document, to trigger payment of a bonus, for example.

Each task in the warehouse has a certain workload. You can only plan this workload if the scope of the task involved is fixed, for example, if a warehouse order that has various warehouse tasks has been created. After executing the work, additional data is then available, such as which worker executed the work, the exact start and finish time, and the resources used.

In the executed workload, you can compare the planned and actual duration for:

●      Warehouse orders

●      Value-added service orders

●      Quality inspection documents

●      Physical inventory documents

●      Indirect labor

You can use the information contained within the planned workload document to make strategic decisions. For example, this enables you to use the total of all planned activities in a particular activity area, on a particular day, to plan the number of employees for this day, in this activity area.

In a similar way, you can use the information in the executed workload to compare the performance of individual employees and groups, and to forward this data to a connected HR system to trigger payment of a bonus, for example. To do this, you must create a performance document for an employee for a particular evaluation period.

Prerequisites

In Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) under Labor Management ® Activate Labor Management, you have activated Labor Management for the warehouse number and the external process steps for which the system creates planned and executed workload documents.

Features

External Process Step

Since you control Labor Management using external process steps, each document or document item must have an external process step assigned to it. The assignment depends on the document:

Warehouse Orders Using Storage Control

For warehouse tasks for storage control, the external process step is determined from the profile in the storage control. For each step defined in the profile, the system creates a data record for the planned workload, even if no document exists yet for this step. Exceptions to this are optional steps, such as deconsolidation. In this instance, the system only generates the workload records when it is clear that the step is also performed.

For the steps in the storage control profile for which a document is created, the planned workload record of the storage control is deleted, and a planned workload record is created for the document, as this contains more precise information.

Other Warehouse Orders

For warehouse orders for warehouse tasks that were not created through storage control, or for physical inventory warehouse orders, the external process step is determined using the activity.

You can assign an external process step to an activity in Customizing for EWM. In the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM, choose Labor Management ® Define Activities.

You define new process steps in Customizing for EWM under Labor Management ® Define External Process Steps. For the internal process step, you can select NSCT for movements that are not storage-control-relevant, or INVE for physical inventory, for example.

Quality Management (QM)

For the workload for inspection documents, the system takes the external process step of the document itself. For this, you have to specify an external process step for the inspection document in the inspection rule. For subordinate elements of the inspection document, the external process step of the inspection document is relevant. This does not apply if an external process step is assigned to the element using a sample-drawing instruction. 

Value-Added Service Orders (VAS Orders)

For VAS orders, you can configure an external process step for each activity. You maintain this in the packaging specification of the VAS order.

Indirect Labor

The system does not create planned workload for indirect labor, it only creates executed workload.

Activity Area

The activity area is defined for warehouse orders using the respective warehouse tasks. For warehouse orders for the physical inventory, the activity area of the physical inventory itself is used.

For VAS order and inspection documents, the activity area corresponds to the planning activity area that has been specified for the work center.

Planned Execution Duration

The data for the planned execution duration is calculated using the engineered labor standards. For warehouse orders, the travel distance or travel time can also be included in this calculation.