The SAP EWM Warehouse Management Monitor is a central tool to keep warehouse managers informed about the current situation in the warehouse. This information enables them to take appropriate actions depending on the current warehouse situation.
The warehouse management monitor also contains alert-monitoring capabilities. These highlight any actual and/or potential problems in the warehouse, and provide exception-handling tools to help correct any problem situations.
The tool is highly customizable and the information displayed can also be extended. For example, you can create custom nodes and custom monitors. The following figure shows the basic screen layout of the Warehouse Management Monitor.
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SAP Warehouse Management Monitor
You can use the standard SAP Warehouse Management Monitor or you can create your own monitor in customizing. Regardless of whether you use the standard SAP monitor or your own monitor, you can tailor it to your needs by hiding nodes or creating new variant nodes based on the standard nodes. Creating variant nodes enables you to create your own nodes, which are based on standard nodes but with specific selection criteria or a specific layout.
By default, object information displays as a list view. The list view is displayed in an SAP List Viewer (ALV) grid, and it offers all standard ALV functionality, including sorting, filtering, and printing. You can toggle to form view for a selected object. The form view provides a focused view of the object, and more-detailed information than the list view. The form view is displayed in an HTML viewer. Other options to display object information are (depending on the installed plug-ins or viewers):
- List output (a very "classic" display)
- Excel inplace
- Crystal Reports
There are different ways in SAP EWM to be notified about alert situations:
- Alert Nodes in the Warehouse Management Monitor
- Alerts in the SCM Alert Monitor
The Alert Node can for example show warehouse tasks that have not been completed within a certain time frame. The time parameter is set in the selection screen for the node.
The Warehouse Management Monitor is often used to display stock balances. Physical and available stocks can be displayed using a variety of selection parameters from the Stock and Bin node. From the Warehouse Management Monitor, stocks are visible in the following locations:
- In storage bins
- On resources, for example forklifts and HUs
- In transportation units (TUs) that are in the yard
- In the Difference Analyzer in physical inventory processing
The Warehouse Management Monitor offers several Methods which offer direct processing steps. These can be used as fallback, or in smaller warehouses, where there is no requirement to use the dedicated transactions. The methods are depended on the object which is selected. Example for methods are:
- For warehouse requests (like inbound deliveries or outbound delivery orders):
- Post goods receipt or goods issue
- Create warehouse tasks
- For warehouse tasks or warehouse orders:
- Confirmation or cancellation
- Display creation logs
- For warehouse stock:
- Creation of warehouse tasks for internal movements
- Posting of stock changes
Warehouse Management Monitor Layout
The Warehouse Management Monitor screen is divided into three sections:
Node Hierarchy tree: The node hierarchy tree contains all predefined nodes. These nodes represent different object classes. The hierarchy tree is used for navigation. You can use the tree to display information from a selected node in the upper right frame. This information can be based on selection criteria. The warehouse management monitor contains nodes for object classes relating to the following:
Documents, such as warehouse requests (WRs), warehouse orders (WOs), warehouse tasks (WTs), and physical inventory documents
Processes, such as stock and bin and resource management processes
Alerts, such as overdue waves or overdue deliveries without goods issue or goods receipt
You can also switch on and off the display of the hierarchy tree to use the full screen for the other sections.
Upper-Right Frame: This is where parent data displays on the warehouse management monitor. This shows high-level information about the node that you select.
Lower-Right Frame: This is where child data displays on the warehouse management monitor. This allows you to drill-down to the detailed information about the parent. It allows you to continue drilling-down until you have come to the lowest-level of information available.
