Defining Work Area
Use
Viewing your entire supply chain at once can be cumbersome. You can limit your view to those supply chain objects you want to concentrate on by defining work areas.
The defined work area is the basis for the queries through which you retrieve information from the APO system on all aspects of your supply chain. The transportation lanes in your work area are defined by the model you are working in.
The supply chain work areas include:
Locations (plant, DC, supplier, customer)
Resources (production, storage, handling, transportation)
Location products
Production process models (PPMs)
Procedure
Access your model from the SAP Easy Access menu.
Choose
Master Data
®
Supply Chain Engineer
®
Maintain Model
The
Supply Chain Engineer: Choose Model
screen appears.
Choose the model and work area you want to use. Choose
Display,
Change
or
Create
, depending on the activity you want to perform.
Result: The SCE main screen appears. The objects of the work area/model appear in the overview tree and on the map.
The map shows all locations that the model contains. In the user-specific settings, you can specify that only those locations that are included both in the model and in the work area are to be displayed.
Maintain Work Areas
Field… |
Procedure… |
The work area dimensions include: Location Resource Production process model iPPE Location product |
Choose the
On the left-hand side, select the dimension from which you wish to add objects. On the right-hand side, enter the objects or use the input help. Choose
To save the work area, from the SCE menu, choose
Repeat this procedure for each work area. |
Pushbutton... |
Procedure … |
Adopt |
Access the SCE screen. |
Save Selection |
Assign a name or ID to a new set of selections. |
Load Selection |
Access list of existing work area selections. Choose the selection you want to include in the work area. |
Delete Line |
Delete an entry from the value field. |
Selection Options |
Access the
For detailed information about this screen, choose the information icon located at the bottom of the screen. |
Cancel |
Terminate the transaction. |
You can use the
Work Area
pushbutton to do the following:
Display an object
Add objects
Remove objects
Clear the work area
Save the work area
Save work area as...
Delete Work Area
If you wish to delete the work area, from the initial screen, choose
Supply Chain Engineer: Choose Model
and then the
Delete Work Area
pushbutton.
Result
The objects in the work area you created appear in the SCE tree structure.