Product Overview 

Use

The application is divided into two views: the product overview and the planning run info, which supply you with different information:

·        The product overview provides you with an overview of several products or planning segments for individual products. The product overview provides information on the availability situation for a product, as well as on the alerts and days’ supplies for a product. The product overview therefore represents a combination of the Product View: Single Elements, the Product View: Periodic, and the Alert Monitor

·        The Planning Run Info View contains the logs of the last planning run for the selected products.

Integration

You can invoke the product overview as part of the product planning table screen or from the SAP Easy Access screen, via Advanced Planning and Optimization → Production Planning → Interactive Production Planning → Product Overview (transaction /sapapo/pov1) (see Accessing the Product Overview).

From the product overview, you can switch to the product planning table itself or to the product view.

Prerequisites

To have the alerts displayed, you must have maintained an alert monitor profile.

Features

View: Product Overview

·        From the product overview, you can switch to the product planning table () and the product view (). You can also switch back to the product overview from there. If you select several products and then switch to the product planning table, the same products are displayed there. When you switch back, the product overview is updated automatically. Using the  pushbutton, you can refresh the active version and then also see the changes that have been made by other planners.

·        The product view displays the highest alert that exists for a product in the first column. In the standard system, products are sorted first by alert and then by name, for example.

·        Using the  symbol you can process the visualization profile or specify that only the top 10 characteristics are to be displayed. This restriction can have a positive effect on the performance of the product overview. For further information, see Displaying Characteristics or Restrictions using the Visualization Profile

·        You can switch from the context menu (click right mouse button) to the product view and the product planning table, as well as to the master data view of the product and the location. You can also find out which resource is being used to produce a product, or to which production process model a product belongs using the where-used list.

·        To switch to the product view, select a line by double-clicking. By double-clicking on a cell with underscored information, you get detailed information on this data (for example, on the master data for a resource or an order)

·        You can also search through your products in the product overview according to individual criteria using the  symbol. The system highlights the result of the search. For more information, see Find and Select.

·        In the product overview, you can filter your products according to alerts. To do this, choose  Change Filter or Use Filter.

Flagging processed products

You can flag processed products in the product planning table, in the product view, and in the product overview (see also Navigating in the Product Planning Table and Navigation Tree in Product View).

To do so, select a product in the product overview and choose  or double-click the  column.

The  symbol appears in this first column for the relevant product. If you have invoked the product overview as a separate application, the processed product slips downward. If you have invoked the product overview as part of the product planning table screen, the processed products appear in the navigation tree in the  Processed folder.

Under Settings → Processing Indicator, you can specify that the indicator can be reset manually only or that it is to be reset automatically at logoff or at the change of a day.

Defining columns for product overview

You can extend the product overview by adding self-defined columns. To do this, implement the Business Add-In /sapapo/pov_col. For further information, see either the documentation for the BAdI, or Customer-Specific Enhancements.

The product overview in the product planning table

If you use the product overview in the product planning table, you can switch to the navigation mode using this symbol:  . The following symbols also appear in the toolbar:

¡         (Show Products),  (Hide Products): You can now hide the navigation tree – but these two symbols provide you with the same navigation functions as the navigation tree.

¡         (Replace): With this function, objects are hidden and only the selected ones displayed.

¡         (Sort): You can use this function to sort products in the product overview.

User settings

You can make the user settings for the product overview ( ) both in the separate transaction and in the product planning table.

You can create and maintain alert profiles via the user settings in the product overview. For more information, see Alert Monitor.

Columns that do not contain any information are displayed as standard. If you want to hide these columns to create more space for the others, set the Hide Empty Columns indicator in the User Settings on the Further Settings tab page.

You can also specify whether or not the product overview is to be refreshed automatically.

You can make further settings to specify whether data for characteristics or data for the planning run is to be extracted. The performance of the product overview can be improved if you set these indicators. For more information, see Production Planning Run.

View: Planning Run Info

You can display the evaluation of the last planning run via the Planning Run Info view (see Planning Log).

You can also invoke this view in the menu via the function Advanced Planning and Optimization → Production Planning → Evaluations → Logs → Log for Last Planning Run.

In this view, there is also an indicator to specify the processing status. In contrast to the indicator in the Product Info view, this indicator tells you that the result of the result of the planning run for a product has been taken note of. The indicator is reset either by a new planning run or manually. It corresponds to the processing indicator for the MRP list in the R/3 system.