Explaining the Alert Monitor

The appearance of alerts depends on the context and is defined in the alert profiles. The display of alerts also depends on the version or the model.

Alerts are automatically available in the Alert Monitor and are displayed in a standard presentation component. You can access the PP/DS alert object by carrying out a drill-down in the relevant application. Alerts are assigned different priority levels and are issued as one of the following types: information, warning, or error. Alert types are assigned automatically to a specific priority level, but can be changed in customizing to level 2 or 1. You can also set threshold values in the alert profiles.

Alerts depend on the planning version or the model.

You can define standard alert types or your own alert types for every problem and you can prioritize alert types as the following:

• Information

• Warnings

• Errors

You can also set threshold values in the alert types.

You can nominate (time-dependent) substitutes for all your favorites. This substitute can access the Alert Monitor and choose between their favorites or your favorites they are replacing (using the Adopt Substitute button in the Alert Monitor).

Using the Alert Notification Engine from basis, you can automatically send alerts using the workflow. The Alert Notification Engine uses the functions from SAP Web Application Server 6.20 for this purpose. The type of notification is defined as using the notification profile and alert notification profile (settings for the Alert Notification Engine).

You can define which alerts the planner receives in the alert profiles.

The alerts are displayed on the basis of an overall profile, which contains all the relevant selection conditions.

You can define the overall profile by entering the following data:

• Selection of alert types

• Object selection variants

• Priority variants prioritized according to key figures such as Error, Warning, Information, and Ignore.

• User-specific alert profiles in various settings, such as the product view, product planning table, detailed scheduling planning board, and Supply Chain Cockpit

When you directly access the Alert Monitor, the overall profiles that you have assigned to your favorites, or for which you are acting as a substitute, are available for selection.

Alert Monitor profiles include the following:

• The planning version you wish to evaluate

• Period (relative or absolute)

• Application specific alert profiles

You can use the Alert Monitor profile to select the objects for which alerts are to be displayed in the Alert Monitor. The Alert Monitor profile, therefore, filters the display of alerts. This enables you to maintain a user-specific selection of alerts for your task area.

In the Alert Monitor profile, you can use selection variants (for example, selection variants for products or for production planning) to enter the objects that should be displayed.

You can also define threshold values in the Alert Monitor profile. As soon as these threshold values are exceeded, alerts are generated (for example, in the event of a capacity overload of more than 10%).

The Alert Monitor differentiates between alerts in a specific planning version and general alerts. For example, capacity overload belongs to a specific planning version, while Demand Planning alerts are not assigned to any planning version in particular. Both alert types are displayed in the Alert Monitor.

Each alert type can be assigned to any number of applications.

You can nominate (time-dependent) substitutes for all users’ favorites. This substitute can access the Alert Monitor and choose between their own favorites or the favorites of the user they are replacing (using the Adopt Substitute button in the Alert Monitor).

With the Alert Notification Engine from SAP SCM Basis, you can automatically send alerts generated from SAP PP/DS using the workflow. The Alert Notification Engine uses the functions from SAP Web Application Server 6.20 for this purpose. The type of notification is defined using the notification profile and alert notification profile (settings for the Alert Notification Engine).

You can add to the alert output list using the BAdI/SAPAPO/AM_ALERTLIST.