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  Master Data and Settings for the DCM

If you want to work with the Delivery Control Monitor (DCM), you must set up special master data and make settings in SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC).

General Master Data

You must create the following master data in the SAP SNC system:

  • Business partners for customer and supplier

  • Internet users for customer and supplier

  • Customer location and ship-from location

  • Location products at the customer location that you monitor in the DCM

    In the location product master of the products, enter the unit of measure for the quantity specifications in the DCM in the Base UoM field.

    If you, as customer, use an SAP ERP back-end system, you can transfer the customer location products to SAP SNC using the CIF.

  • The transportation lane between the customer location and the supplier location

DCM Parameters in the Location Product Master

You must enter the following parameters in the customer location product master:

  • Minimum stock level and maximum stock level

  • Signal stock level

    The signal stock level must lie between the minimum and the maximum stock levels.

  • Rounding value

    SAP SNC uses the rounding value to round ASN quantities.

You enter these values in the location product master on the Lot Size tab page in the following fields:

  • The minimum stock level in the Safety Stock field

  • The maximum stock level in the Maximum Stock field

  • The signal stock level in the Reorder Point field

  • The rounding value in the Rounding Value field

DCM Parameters Dependent on Business Partner

In the following cases, you must make the location product settings in SAP SNC dependent on the business partner:

  • Multisourcing

    The customer can procure a product for the customer location from different ship-from locations. The ship-from locations can belong to different suppliers. In this case, it may be necessary to specify different supplier-specific planning parameters for the customer location product, such as different minimum or maximum stock levels.

  • Scenario Control

    You can use scenario control to define which location products the DCM displays and which DCM alerts the system generates.

For more information, see Partner-Dependent Location Product Settings .

Note Note

You cannot set the Use Days' Supply indicator in the location product settings. Use this indicator in the SMI Monitor to control that the system calculates the maximum and minimum stock levels dynamically using the days' supply.

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Calculating Stock on Hand

See Calculation of Stock on Hand

Selection Management

If a user only wants to display data in the DCM, create user-specific and business partner-specific selections in Selection Management .

ProductActivityNotifications

You transfer the data for the DCM to SAP SNC using ProductActivityNotifications . For ProductActivityNotifications , you must set the process type Supplier Collaboration in Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration . You make this setting under Start of the navigation path Basic Settings Next navigation step Processing Inbound and Outbound Messages Next navigation step Process Types for Inbound Messages End of the navigation path .

Alert Notification

If you only want to call the DCM when an alert occurs, set up alert notification .

Alert-Based Rating

If you want to use alert-based rating , make the relevant settings.