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

       1.      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.

       2.      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	1.       Choose the Work Area pushbutton and select the Add Objects option.  Result: The Select Work Area screen appears. 2.       On the left-hand side, select the dimension from which you wish to add objects. 3.       On the right-hand side, enter the objects or use the input help. 4.       Choose Adopt. Result: The objects are adopted in the current work area. 5.       To save the work area, from the SCE menu, choose Settings → Save Work Area or use the Save button in the SCE main menu. 6.       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 Maintain Selection Options screen. 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.