Reviewing Executed Workload

The system creates an EWL automatically when a Labor Management-relevant document is completed. Those documents are the following:

• IL Indirect Labor Tasks

• PI Warehouse Order for Physical Inventory

• QD Inspection Document

• QE Inspection Document Element

• RH Receive HU from Production

• RV Receive HU from Vendor

• VS Value-Added Service

• WO Warehouse Order

In the warehouse management monitor node Labor Management→Executed Workload, you can create an EWL manually.

With the Create Indirect Labor Activities Based on Attendance application (/SCWM/EWL_PREPEOS), you can manually create EWLs that cover the time for preparation work, breaks, and end-of-shift work. To open the application, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management→Labor Management→Create Indirect Labor Activities Based on Attendance.

In the warehouse management monitor node Labor Management→Executed Workload, you can use the monitor methods Change Executed Workload and Mass Change Executed Workload to edit certain attributes in the executed workloads.

If processor master data has changed, you can use the monitor method Update Processor Data to update the processor-related fields in the selected records. This method enters the current processor master data and retriggers the BRFplus determinations.

You can use the monitor method Update Shift Data to update the shift-related data in the selected records with the current data and trigger the determinations again.

In all three cases, the system sets the status of the old EWL to Invalid and creates a new EWL with the current data.

Executed workloads are usually completed automatically by the system, but they can stay incomplete if you have activated the asynchronous completion in the system settings or if an error occurred. You can activate the asynchronous completion of EWLs on the SAP Easy Access screen for Extended Warehouse Management, under Settings→Performance Settings→Activate Asynchronous EWL Completion.

You can use the Complete Executed Workload application (/SCWM/EWL_COMPL) to complete executed workloads. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management→Labor Management→Complete Executed Workload. The completion consists of the following optional steps:

• Determination of the labor activity code and its attributes

• Calculation of the travel distance and time

• Calculation of the normal time based on engineered labor standards (ELS)

• Calculation of the standard time based on the personal needs, fatigue, and unavoidable delay (PFD) factor

You can use the Update Executed Workload transaction (/SCWM/EWL_REDET) to trigger the determinations again for executed workloads that have already been completed. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management→Labor Management→Update Executed Workload. This may be needed if you change the BRFplus rules retroactively and want to apply them to existing executed workloads.

If you are using employee performance documents, SAP recommends that you make sure organizationally that no EWL is created, changed, or deleted for a time interval for which an employee performance document already exists.

You are a team lead in the warehouse. At the end of the shift, you analyze the EWLs that have been created for your processors during the shift. If there are any complaints about incorrect times, or if there is any data missing, you can adapt the EWLs for the following scenarios:

• In the EWLs for a new processor, the processor attributes are missing.

  Maintain the attributes in the master data for this processor and update the EWL using the Update Processor Data function in the warehouse management monitor.

• In the EWLs for a new processor, the shift data is missing.

  Maintain the shift and the shift assignment to this processor and perform the function Update Shift Data in the warehouse management monitor.

• An EWL has the status Incomplete Due to Error.

  Simulate the completion of this EWL and check the reason for the error. Correct the root cause, for example, by changing the rules in BRFplus. Perform the completion again.

• Your processors complain about incorrect times in their EWLs. You investigate and find that the adjusted planned duration was not determined correctly.

  Adapt your rules in BRFplus, and use the Standard Time Simulation to simulate the new determination of the adjusted planned duration. If the result looks good, perform the redetermination for all your processors' EWLs. In single cases, you can change the adjusted planned duration manually in the warehouse management monitor.

• You want to give credit to a processor for an exceptional work, or some work could not be planned due to technical issues.

  You can create an indirect labor task with a planned duration and without any actual duration.

For all these changes except the completion, the system creates a new EWL record including the new data and sets the status of the old EWL record to Invalid. This allows you to review the history of changes for each changed EWL.

• The executed workload (or EWL) document reflects the work done in your warehouse. An EWL is created by the system automatically, or you can create it manually.
• Certain attributes in the executed workloads can later on be edited if needed.
• Executed workloads are usually completed automatically by the system, but they can stay incomplete if you have activated the asynchronous completion in the system settings or if an error occurred.