Warehouse Management Monitor 

Use

The warehouse management monitor is a central tool for keeping warehouse managers constantly up-to-date as to the current situation in the warehouse, and to enable them to initiate appropriate responses in light of this situation.

The warehouse management monitor also contains alert monitoring capabilities, which highlight to warehouse managers actual and potential problematic situations in the warehouse, and provide exception handling tools.

Prerequisites

You have accessed the warehouse management monitor by:

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       1.      Choosing Extended Warehouse Management ® Monitoring ® /SCWM/MON - Warehouse Management Monitor on the SAP Easy Access screen.

       2.      Entering the warehouse number and name of the monitor.

       3.      Choosing Execute.

Features

Node Hierarchy Tree

The node hierarchy tree contains all of the predefined nodes representing different object classes.

The tree is used solely for navigation purposes. You can use the hierarchy tree to display in the upper view area object information for a specific node, based on selection criteria.

The warehouse management monitor contains nodes for object classes relating to the following:

●      Documents such as warehouse requests (WRs), warehouse orders (WOs), warehouse tasks (WTs), and physical inventory documents

●      Processes such as stock and bin, and resource management

●      Alerts such as overdue waves or overdue deliveries without goods issue/goods receipt

Drilldown Capabilities

After displaying in the upper view area object information for a node, you can drill down and display the object information for its lower-level nodes, via designated pushbuttons.

You can similarly drill down to the lower-level nodes from the lower view area.

List and Form Views

By default, object information is displayed as a list view. The list view is displayed in an ALV grid, and offers all standard ALV functionalities, including sorting, filtering and printing.

You also have the option of toggling to form view for a selected object. The form view provides a focused view of the object, and provides more detailed information than the list view. The form view is displayed in an HTML viewer.

Methods

After object information is displayed in either view area, you can call methods to perform actions on selected objects. For more information about the available methods, see Monitor Methods.

Customizing Options

You can use the standard SAP monitor or you can create your own monitor in Customizing.

For more information about creating your own monitor, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for EWM under Extended Warehouse Management ® Monitoring ® Warehouse Management Monitor.

If you use the standard SAP monitor, you can tailor it to your needs by either creating variants for the standard nodes, or creating new variant nodes, based on the standard nodes.

●      Creating variants for the standard nodes enables you to use predefined selection criteria while running a session of the monitor. The variant-node assignments are lost when you close the monitor session.

●      Creating variant nodes enables you to create your own nodes, which are based on the standard nodes, but with specific selection criteria, or with a specific layout. Variant nodes are always available when the user utilizes the monitor.