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Process documentationDetermining Alerts in the Background

 

The run times for determining alerts can vary, depending on the scope of the overall alert profile you are using. Alert determination in the background enables you to use extensive overall profiles without a waiting time when you access a current alert situation. The system automatically starts alert determination at the time you specify. You can select the time in such a way that alert determination runs a half hour before the working day begins, after the system has completed the nightly planning run. This ensures that the results are available immediately when the working day begins.

Prerequisites

You have defined an overall alert profile (see Overall Alert Profile).

Process

  1. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Advanced Planning and Optimization Next navigation step Demand Planning Next navigation step Planning Next navigation step Demand Planning in the Background Next navigation step Job Overview of Demand Planning in the Background End of the navigation path to schedule program /SAPAPO/READ_ALERTS_BATCH as a periodic background job. This program determines the alerts for the selected overall profiles and saves them, dependent on the alerts' due dates. For more information, see Determining and Saving Alert Situations.

  2. You configure an overall alert profile for alert determination in the background. For more information, see Configuring Overall Alert Profiles for Alert Determination in the Background. Make sure that the time interval for the due date is not smaller than the time interval in which the background job is repeated (see the example below).

  3. Alert determination is started at the time when program /SAPAPO/READ_ALERTS_BATCH defines the due date of an overall profile. The system saves the alert situation using the name of the overall profile, including the date and time of the determination.

  4. On the initial screen of the Alert Monitor, you call up the saved alert situation using the input help.

  5. You process the alerts. For more information, see the documentation for the relevant application.

  6. The system repeats the alert determination at the time interval you have specified in the overall profile, and then saves the new alert situation. The previous alert situation is deleted automatically. This means you can only call up the last saved alert situation for an overall profile.

Example

You configure the overall profile for alert determination in the background in such a way that the alert determination is due on every hour. You enter a start time 00:00:00 and the repeat interval 1.

Schedule program /SAPAPO/READ_ALERTS_BATCH, so that it always runs a minute after the due time for alert determination. This means that the background job starts at 00:01 and is repeated hourly.