Inbound Monitoring Overview and Functions
Inbound Monitoring Overview and Functions
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1.1 Structure of the Inbound Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Selection Range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1 General Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2 Limitations External Procurement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.3 Limitations In-House Production. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4 Using Selection Variants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3 Result. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.1 Results Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Navigation Profiles, Measures, Resubmissions, and Comments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.2 Status Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Columns Delivery Periods – Maintenance of Data in the Vendor Master. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.3 Result Graphic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Display of Graph on Basis of Volume, Gross Weight, and Net Weight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Display of Graphic Based on the Number of Order Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Display of Graphic Based on an Alternative Unit of Measure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6 Appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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1 Inbound Monitor
Maintain an overview of all goods receipts. The inbound monitor helps you gain an overview of your goods
receipts so that you can react quickly in the event of bottlenecks or in exceptional situations.
The inbound monitor supports you with goods receipt. Particularly in the departments warehouse/goods
receipt, material requirements planning, purchasing, logistics, and production control, it serves as a central
point of access for recording and monitoring goods receipt processes.
You use the inbound monitor to view all (open) material requirements planning of external and internal
procurement based on the item and across all plants. If required, you can restrict the result set using extensive
selection options on the main goods receipt processes. There are links to the document level from the results
table, and to further transactions. This allows you to improve the communication between departments.
Through a joint consideration of external and internal procurement material requirements planning when
determining the workload on goods receipt, you can identify spikes in capacity utilization, react to these, and
avoid errors in the goods receipt process. You are therefore able to act proactively and react in a timely manner.
This reduces costs related to goods receipt.
● Purchase orders
● SA schedule lines
● Inbound deliveries
● Unconverted purchase requisitions (optional)
In the case of in-house production, you can access the following documents:
● Production (PP)
● Production orders of the process industry (PP-PI)
● Planned orders (optional)
The result is displayed in table form and graphically. You can choose to display the workload daily, weekly, or
monthly, based on the weight and volume, items or alternative units of measure.
From the result screen, the user can branch to other transactions based on the item, for example, to view
master data or document information, or post goods receipts (current stock/requirements list: MD04, stock
overview: MMBE, goods receipt: MIGO).
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Note
Please note that when executing SCM Consulting Solutions, you must enter the prefix /n/SAPLOM/
before each transaction.
For this SCM Consulting Solution, the following note exists: 1541340
You can also use the comprehensive functions. These include the following functionalities:
In addition, the following SCM Consulting Solutions are part of the comprehensive functions:
The comprehensive functions consist of various functions that can make your work with the SCM Consulting
Solutions even more [Link] material master update allows you to save data in standard SAP fields and
fields of the enhanced material master view. You can edit the material master data directly from the results
list of your SCM Consulting [Link] can use the enhanced material master view to access the material
master data fields of the SCM Consulting Solutions. You can use material document aggregation to create
customized consumption and inventory histories that you can use for the analyses in the MRP monitor,
inventory controlling cockpit, and safety stock simulation. The stock development shows you the current
stock values and provides you with a variety of aggregation options.
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The inbound monitor provides you with an overview that is divided into three areas:
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Screenshot of the Inbound Monitor
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2 Selection Range
In the selection there are several areas, which are described in more detail in the following sections:
● General Limitations
● Limitations External Procurement
● Limitations In-House Production
In the General Limitations selection area, set defaults for restricting the results for plant, procurement type,
material type, material group, and material number. In this case, an entry in the Plant field is mandatory.
General Limitations
If you select the Display Traffic Light for Critical Materials (transaction /SAPLOM/IBM_CRITMA) checkbox, the
system checks whether the selected material/plant/storage location combinations were defined as critical. If
this is the case, these entries are assigned a red traffic light icon in the results table.
Note
The critical materials can be maintained based on storage location using /SAPLOM/IBM_CRITMA.
If you select the Display Goods Receipts That Have Already Been Posted checkbox, document items for which
there is already a complete goods receipt are also displayed.
If you want to display the worklist based on alternative units of measure in the graphic, you need to enter a
corresponding unit of measure. Otherwise, the graphic remains blank in this display option.
Fill the selection to restrict the result set for externally procured goods accordingly.
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Limitations External Procurement
The checkboxes Purchase Orders, Scheduling Agreement Delivery Schedule Lines, Shipping Notification, and
Purchase Requisitions are to be selected if these documents are to be included in the result list.
For limitation of the delivery date, note that both fields (from and to) must be filled. Otherwise, too many data
records are not taken into consideration and may not be displayed.
In this area, you can restrict the results for goods manufactured in-house. The three checkboxes Production
Orders, Process Orders, and Planned Orders are to be selected accordingly if these document categories are to
be taken into account.
In the End Date field, note that both fields (from and to) must be filled. Otherwise, too many data records are
not taken into consideration and may not be displayed.
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2.4 Using Selection Variants
With regard to selection, like for the standard SAP ERP system, it is possible to save frequent selections as
variants. This enables you to take a closer look at materials to which special attention is to be paid, for example,
critical materials, by saving and loading appropriate variants with this monitor.
When you choose the disk icon (Save, Ctrl+S) to the right of the command field, a dialog box appears:
When you specify the variant description, it is recommended that you specify a text (maximum of 30
characters),
After choosing the green arrow to confirm, the confirmation for saving appears:
To change a saved variant, call it, change the values, and when saving, confirm the variant name by clicking on
the green checkmark.
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You can change the label, and other attributes of the variant. After another click on , the variant is
overwritten when the subsequent popup is confirmed.
Saved variants are deleted using F7. When you choose this key, a dialog box asks you to specify which of the
saved variants is to be deleted. After selecting and confirming, the program asks for the client assignment.
After selecting this and choosing Continue, the variant is deleted.
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3 Result
After you have made the desired settings in the selection area, choose the F8 key or choose the Execute
pushbutton to generate the results table and the graphic on the basis of the set delimitations and display or
update these on the right side of the screen.
The rows of the overview table are light and dark blue for external procurement items and gray and dark gray
for in-house production. The delivery date is also highlighted in a color in the purchase order:
In addition, each document category is identified by a short text before the document number
● B Purchase requisition
● L Scheduling agreement
● LA Shipping notification
● F Purchase order
● 10 Production order
● PLAF Planned order
● 40 Process order
Example of a Result screen with Colored Delivery Date and Document Category Identification in column T
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You can modify and save the display of data in the results table using the standard SAP pushbuttons for table
editing (for example: Details, Select, Sort). It is possible to export data to MS Excel. Adjust the display as you
wish by choosing the Layout pushbutton, and save. You can also use this to define user-specific presettings.
For a detailed description of calculated columns, see the appendix (Section Appendix [page 25]).
In the results view, you can navigate directly to different transactions relevant for goods receipt (such as MIGO
to perform GR postings, MMBE - Stock Overview).
To do so, select a row of the results table automatically and choose the corresponding pushbutton. The data is
transferred to the corresponding transaction automatically. For example, you can post inbound deliveries and
goods receipts immediately.
When you double-click on a field in the Purchasing Document column, you navigate to the document display
transactions that correspond to the document category.
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You use the pushbutton to choose, change, save, and manage navigation profiles. In this way, you
maintain additional functions or transactions in the status bar or in the context menu of the results screen.
Using the pushbuttons Measures, Resubmission, and Comment, you use the functionality of the
comprehensive functions, which is described in the corresponding documentation.
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3.2 Status Bar
You can use the pushbuttons in the status bar to navigate to various standard SAP transactions. You can get
information about the pushbuttons when you hover the mouse over the respective pushbuttons.
Pushbuttons from left to right: Execute, Fetch Variant, Go to Document Requirements List, Stock Overview,
Goods Receipt. The pushbuttons Days, Weeks, Months, Item/Days, Item/Wks, Item/Mths, UoM/Days, UoM/
Wks, and UoM/Mths are used to change the display of the graphic.
Details on the functionality of the pushbuttons are described in section Result Graphic [page 14].
Related Information
The delivery periods displayed in the results table are maintained in the vendor master (XK02). For this, a
contact person with the function PO must be created in the maintenance of the contact person in the General
Data.
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Setting Contact Persons
The delivery periods displayed in the result table correspond to the data stored in the related visiting hours.
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Visiting Hours of Contact Persons
You change the graphic showing the results by using the pushbuttons in the status bar (section Status Bar
[page 12]). The x-axis is always the same and displays the date either in intervals of a specific date (days),
calendar weeks, or months. The data basis for the date (displayed in days) is the Delivery Date column, or
calendar week, or month.
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Display of Graph on Basis of Volume, Gross Weight, and Net Weight [page 14]
Display of Graphic Based on the Number of Order Items [page 15]
Display of Graphic Based on an Alternative Unit of Measure [page 15]
The following figure shows a sample graphic that is displayed after you have executed the program. The y-axis
specifies the scale for the gross and net weights of the goods in your base unit, and the volume. The default
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setting is that the graphic initially displays the workload on goods receipt with the schedule line (explosion) in
days.
Use the pushbuttons Days, Weeks, and Months to change the x-axis of the graphic.
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Note
This unit of measure must be maintained in the material master of the material ( MM02 Additional
Data ). Only then can values for the material be taken into account in the graphic. In the event that the
results table contains at least 1 material that does not have the chosen unit of measure maintained, there is
a corresponding information popup. To see which materials are affected by this, you can read the open
quantity in the alternative unit of measure in the column Alt. Quantity.
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4 Notes and Restrictions
Generally, shipping notifications are not taken into account in the graphic.
It is recommended that the text fields of the delimitations in the selection area are filled in as much detail as
possible, to minimize waiting times for the result. If too much data is selected, this may lead to program
crashes due to a lack of memory. The allocated memory depends on the system and user.
It is only possible to save the results table as an external file (for example, Microsoft Excel).
The values determined in the fields Notification Date and Notification Time can only be displayed for shipping
notifications.
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5 Including Customer-Specific
Enhancements
The coding of the inbound monitor has an object-oriented structure. Selection fields, results fields, and output
fields are maintained using Customizing tables. The values determined during the program run are transferred
to a business object.
Do not change any data maintained in advance by SAP since this directly affects the functions of the monitor.
To adjust the view of the ALV grid, you should use the standard SAP pushbuttons for editing tables or for
navigation profiles (see the Navigation Profiles documentation).
The selection fields for selects are enhanced in /SAPLOM/IBM_CUST_BP. In the view cluster displayed, this is
represented by adding fields in the dialog structure Field Catalog Selection Fields per Data Container . In the
case of selection fields that are assigned to different table names and field names depending on the Select,
these are assigned a sequential number. The data contained in the table is subsequently read accordingly. (For
further information, refer to the section BAdI).
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Adding Fields in the Dialog Structure
To add additional columns to the structure of the business object, that is, to extend the results table, the
generic result structure must be enhanced. This is done using /SAPLOM/IBM_CUST_OUT. In the view cluster
displayed, adding fields in the dialog structure IBM Monitor Generic Result Structure enhances the results table.
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In /SAPLOM/IBM_CUST_OUT, the output table can also be maintained, which determines which fields are
displayed at which position in the ALV grid, and in which order these fields are sorted. The default values for the
fields [Link], Idx DC, and [Link] are shown in the screenshot.
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View Output Fields for Each Output Area
The results table canbe enhanced using the BAdI /SAPLOM/IBM_POSTSELECT enhancement spot: /SAPLOM/
IBM_BRF.
Sample Code
i_select_options
All data entered on the selection screen is transferred. The parameter structure is generic and is created at
runtime according to the appearance of the selection screen.
A structure in which each component corresponds to a selection option on the selection screen is established.
The individual components in this structure have the data type /SAPLOM/X_MVC_S_SEL_OPTION. You can
access this structure as follows:
Sample Code
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l_fieldname TYPE fieldname,
Lt_where TYPE string,
LR_RTST_SELOPTIONS TYPE REF TO CL_ABAP_STRUCTDESCR.
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Sample Code
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LR_RTST_SELOPTIONS ?=
CL_ABAP_STRUCTDESCR=>DESCRIBE_BY_DATA(<lfs_sel_option>. ).
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8. 8. Access the associated table/field combinations to which this select option refers, or for which it can be
used
Sample Code
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9. Structure of a line of the dynamic WHERE clause
Sample Code
ct_results:
The results table with the previously determined data is transferred. This structure is also generic and during
the course of the program receives the structure of the values maintained in the Customizing table for the
results table (see Maintenance of Customizing Tables [page 18]). Typing: Type table. This parameter is returned
to the main program, in which the business object is then created from the values contained.
Related Information
The selection screen can be enhanced statically at the end of the current display as a separate block, using the
enhancement point /saplom/ibm_ehp_selscreen in the spot /saplom/ibm_ehs_coding. In this enhancement
point, the pure UI adjustment takes place. References between the selection fields and fields in database tables
must then be made in the Customizing table for selection fields, as described in section Maintenance of
Customizing Tables [page 18]. This enhancement option is located in the include /SAPLOM/
LIBM_SCREENSE01 at the end of the selection screen definition.
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Sample Code
It is not possible to name your own selection fields by maintaining text elements. Instead, the actual label text
is assigned to the parameter using a non-standardized text variable with any name, via the command
SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT. The enhancement option (enhancement point) /SAPLOM/
IBM_EHP_SELSCREEN_OUTP of enhancement spot /SAPLOM/IBM_EHS_CODING is used for this purpose.
This enhancement option is located in the include /SAPLOM/LIBM_SCREENSO01.
Sample Code
AT SELECTION-SCREEN OUTPUT.
*Erweiterung für Zuweisung der Bezeichnung kundeneigener Selektionsfelder
ENHANCEMENT-POINT /SAPLOM/IBM_EHP_SELSCREEN_OUTP SPOTS /SAPLOM/
IBM_EHS_CODING .
ENHANCEMENT 1 ZTEST_SCREEN_OUTPUT.
comm1 = ‘Prüflos’.
ENDENHANCEMENT.
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6 Appendix
The following explains contents of calculated columns and fields that require explanation in more detail . All
other columns get their data either directly from the material master or the database tables that belong to the
respective transaction.
RLT II column:
RLT External:
Data from the contact person in the vendor master. Contact person must be maintained with function PO so
that the related delivery times can be displayed in IBM.
Contact person
Text column:
If a delivery text is maintained in the purchase order for the related purchase order item, a corresponding icon
is displayed in this column. Double-clicking on the icon branches directly to the purchase order.
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Delivery text
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