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 SCM-APO, Planner's Home Page

 

Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

SCM_APO_HOME_PAGE

Type of Business Function

Enterprise Business Function

Available From

SAP enhancement package 2 for SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) 7.0

Technical Usage

SCM

Application Component

Advanced Planning and Optimization (SCM-APO)

Required Business Function

Not relevant

You can use this business function to enable the planner’s home page. The planner’s home page is a Web application that you can call up in the SAP NetWeaver Business Client. It is a start page that can be personalized easily and that you, as a supply chain planner, can use to display the information necessary to understand the priorities of your current tasks. It consists of several content blocks which contain information about and links to the most common activities.

The planner’s home page contains the following content blocks:

  • Alert Overview

    Shows queries of an alert overview and allows you to navigate to the alert details showing the query result. From the alert details the user can navigate to the Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) applications, taking the context information of one or more alerts.

  • My Objects

  • Notes

  • Favorite Selections

  • Favorite Reports

The content blocks allow you to navigate to the respective interactive transactions in APO or to other applications for further work on the detailed data. Due to the user-specific nature of the information the planner's home page contains, it can easily be personalized in both content and layout.

Prerequisites

  • You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:

    Type of Component

    Component

    Required for the Following Features Only

    Software Component

    SCM_BASIS 702

    Not applicable

    Software Component

    SCMBPLUS 702

    Not applicable

    Software Component

    SCM 702

    Not applicable

    SAP NetWeaver

    SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.5 Desktop

    Not applicable

  • A user must be assigned to the role APO Planner's Home Page (SAP_SCM_PLN_HOME) to be able to use the planner's home page.

  • You must have installed SAP NetWeaver Business Client 3.5 for Desktop to call the planner's home page from the SAP NetWeaver Business Client.

Features

The planner's home page has the following features:

  • You can personalize the layout and content of the planner's home page so that it suits your daily work.

  • The planner's home page can support the work of the following supply chain planners:

    • Demand planner

    • Supply planner

    • Production planner

    • ATP planner

  • You can start an APO application with a predefined selection from the planner's home page.

    After you have set up your favorite selections in the Favorite Selections content block, you can choose a selection from the list of your favorite selections and choose the target application from the context menu. The system displays only the applications that are compatible with the selection in the context menu.

  • You can start an application without context.

    You can add applications to the role menu of the role APO Planner's Home Page (SAP_SCM_PLN_HOME). In this case, the system starts the application without a predefined selection.

  • You can display and view the alert list and navigate from the alert list to the application that raised the alert.

  • You can view and monitor your favorite objects that you have set up in the My Objects content block. Favorite objects can be location products, resources and characteristic value combinations (CVCs) in Demand Planning. You can display key performance indicators (KPIs) for these objects.

  • You can start reports from the Favorite Reports content block.

  • You can create and view notes.

  • You can use the Web Dynpro standard functions to personalize the planner's home page. For example, you can define which available columns are displayed in the My Objects content block.

For more information, see Planner's Home Page.