You need to enter the following information −

• The user that you want to notify.

• An overall alert profile. Note that you can only assign one overall alert profile to each system user, which is then used to notify the user.

• Email address (email address or inbox in the "SAP Business Workplace").

• Activate automatic notification for this system user by selecting the checkbox at the bottom of the screenshot.

You can also trigger the notifications manually. Navigate to SAP Easy Access → Advanced Planning and Optimization → Alert Monitor → Send Alerts.

Select the system user you want to notify. If you want the system to automatically send notifications at regular intervals, define a variant of report /SAPAPO/AMON_MAIL_BROADCAST

Plan Monitor

Plan monitor is used to evaluating the key figures for a plan w.r.t different objects, periods, and versions. Plan monitor can be used to compare various planning versions with each other. You can compare the planning over different periods.

The results can be displayed in the form of a table or a graphic.

Plan monitor can be called from the following applications −

• Capable-to-Match (CTM)

• Product Planning table

• Detailed Scheduling Planning Board → Extras → Plan Monitor

• Model and Version Management → Further Functions → Plan Monitor

Key Figure Schema

Key figure schema is used to define which "Plan Monitor" criteria are used to evaluate the planning. They are not specific to users and you can copy or delete them. The layout of the table columns and the graphical display can be changed to user-specific settings.

Under General Settings, you define the type of schema - simple display or comparison

Or Type of Display − Table, Graphic or combination of table and graphic

Under Key figures, define key figure variants −

• Times − This is used to define periods for which planning is to be evaluated

• Version − This is where you enter the planning and simulation version to be evaluated

Supply Chain Cockpit

Supply chain cockpit is a graphical tool to manage and control the supply chain. It covers all the planning areas like manufacturing, demand, transportation, etc.

With the use of individual work areas, you can have several planners work simultaneously on different parts of a supply chain.

Supply Chain Cockpit allows you to −

• Check the entire supply chain from all perspectives and you can drill down to the lowest level of detail.

  • You can remove the complexity of the relationships among supply chain components.

  • Flexible decision-making steps after checking the detailed level of information.

  • You can also use it to retrieve information from SAP APO using queries.

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