Alert Monitor for Sales Scheduling Agreement 

Use

During inbound processing of scheduling agreement (SA) releases, the system automatically carries out numerous checks.

The following alerts, which the planner can view in the Alert Monitor, can occur:

·        Sales Scheduling Agreement: Message from Admissibility Check

·        Sales Scheduling Agreement: Message from Feasibility Check

·        Below Minimum Days’ Supply (DB)

·        Sales Scheduling Agreement: Message re Product

·        Sales scheduling agreement in past

·        Underconfirmation Alert

·        Overconfirmation Alert

Prerequisites

See also Prerequisites for the Sales Scheduling Agreement

Activities

Create PP/DS Alert Profile in Alert Monitor

1.       Choose Supply Chain Monitoring ® Alert Monitor.

2.       Choose  Overall Profile.

Enter a name and a description for the profile.

3.       Choose the PP/DS tab page:

                            a.      Enter a name and a description for the profile.

                            b.      Select the relevant alerts:

§         Sales Scheduling Agreement: Message from Admissibility Check

If the tolerances that have been maintained in the tolerance profile are violated during the tolerance check (that is carried out as part of the admissibility check), the following alerts may occur: Individual Check in Horizon <...> or Totals Check in Horizon <...>. .

§         Sales Scheduling Agreement: Message from Feasibility Check

This alert is generated if technical errors occur during the feasibility check, for example if the liveCache is not available.

§         Below Minimum Days’ Supply (DB)

This alert is written to the database during the days’ supply check (that is carried out as part of the feasibility check), if the actual days’ supply determined by the system is below the minimum days’ supply.

In the feasibility check for the product, you receive for example an alert, with the description Minimum Range of Coverage Violated on <...>.

§         Sales Scheduling Agreement: Message re Product

These alerts are generated during the feasibility check if:

·         An error occurred during data retrieval

·         You have not assigned a heuristic for the feasibility check in Customizing for the control profile

·         The system could not find a sales scheduling agreement

·         You have not maintained a days’ supply type.

You use the days’ supply type to define which types of stocks, receipts, requirements and forecasts (ATP categories) should be taken into account during the calculation of the actual days’ supply.

§         Sales scheduling agreement in past

This alert is output if schedule lines (requested or confirmed quantities) lie in the past.

In addition, you can specify in the Alert Profile in the Start Past (in Days) field the beginning of this “past”.

§         Overconfirmation Alert (Confirmed quantity exceeds requested quantity)

This alert is generated if the quantity confirmed by the planner exceeds the requested quantity.

§         Underconfirmation Alert (Confirmed quantity is less than requested quantity)

This alert is generated if the quantity confirmed by the planner is less than the requested quantity.

For more information, see Monitoring PP/DS-Alerts and Under and Overconfirmation Alerts

4.       In Selection of Location Products, specify the products for which you want to see the alerts.

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                            a.      Choose .

                            b.      The system displays the window Restrict Alerts to be Displayed.

Enter the criteria you want to use, for example, product, procurement type or purchasing group.

                            c.      Choose  Save selection.

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5.       You return to the overall profile. To save, choose .

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Assign PP/DS Alert Profile in Product Planning Table and Product View

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       1.      Choose Settings ® Alert Profile.

       2.      Choose the alert profile that you want to use.

Use Alert Monitor

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       1.      Create a PP/DS alert profile in the Alert Monitor.

       2.      In the product planning table and the product view assign the PP/DS alert profile that you want to use.

       3.      Call up the Alert Monitor.

You can access the Alert Monitor from:

¡        The menu

Supply Chain Monitoring ® Alert Monitor

¡        The product view

Production Planning ® Interactive Production Planning ® Product View

¡        The product planning table

Supply Chain Collaboration ® Sales Scheduling Agreement Processing ® Product Planning Table (Sales Scheduling Agreement).

4.       Display the Alert Monitor chart in the product planning table.

In the Alert Monitor chart only those alert types that you have selected in the assigned alert profile are displayed for the products/locations that you selected on the initial screen.

Alerts from the admissibility check (with tolerance check) show you, for example, the deviation as a percentage, the checking horizon in which the deviation occurred and whether an individual check or a totals check was carried out.

Schedule deviations correspond to a deviation of 100%.

Alternatively, you can branch to the Alert Monitor from the product view or the product planning table. Choose  (Alert Monitor).

The system then displays the alerts that have occurred in a new window.

The system displays all alert types that have occurred that belong to the alert profile assigned. All products that you have entered in the alert profile are taken into account and not only those that you selected on the initial screen.

In the Alert Monitor, you can see the sequence in which the alerts occurred and you can sort them.

For example, you see the quantity of the last confirmed due delivery schedule and the quantity of the current due delivery schedule as well as their time stamps.

You can view alerts or forward them.

For further information, see Alert Monitor in the SAP Library under Supply Chain Monitoring.

Example (Sales Scheduling Agreement: Message from Admissibility Check Alert)

Settings in the Tolerance Profile for the Admissibility Check

In Customizing, you have set an individual check in the tolerance profile for the admissibility check, so that the requested quantity in the current due delivery schedule can only deviate from the last confirmed due delivery schedule by a maximum of 10 percent. If the deviation is higher than 10%, the system issues an alert during the admissibility check to inform the planner responsible.

Last Confirmed Due Delivery Schedule

The last due delivery schedule confirmed by the planner contained a schedule line of 30 PC (old quantity) on November 27.

In the current due delivery schedule however, 60 PC (New Quantity) are required for this date.

Result

The alert Individual Check in Horizon <...> appears.

According to the tolerance profile, you want to allow a deviation of a maximum of 10 percent, so that the new requested quantity can only be 33 PC.

Because the new quantity differs considerably from the quantity originally requested (100%), an alert is generated. The deviation is displayed as a percentage in the Alert Monitor.

In the tolerance profile, you can set that the tolerance check is terminated once the first inadmissible deviation has occurred (Termination of Check). In this case, the Alert Monitor only displays a message for the admissibility check.