Displaying data in Item/Channel Planning Chart

The following chart types are available:

Demand chart
Supply chart
Inventory chart
Demand, supply, and inventory chart
Cost chart
Cash flow chart
Cost and cash flow chart

To display data:

Specify a plan company, a scenario, and a plan level.
Select a range of plan items.
Specify a channel (optional). If you specify a channel, LN displays a channel chart; otherwise, an item chart is shown.
Specify whether the values shown on the chart must be aggregated for the selected items or channels, and whether the values shown must be cumulative.
Specify the start date, the period length, and the maximum number of periods for the chart.
Choose a chart type
Click Show Chart

Note: To draw the chart, LN redivides the scenario into time periods, starting from the scenario's start date, and according to the value of the Number of Periods in View field. Therefore, the actual start date used for the chart can be earlier than the requested start date entered.

Determining chart periods: example

Scenario start date: March 1 Scenario finish date: April 30 Chart start date: March 20 Period length: 14 days

The scenario is divided into the following chart periods:


Period	From	To
1	March 1	March 14
2	March 15	March 28
3	March 29	April 12
4	April 13	April 27
5	April 28	April 30

The requested start date for the chart is in period 2. Therefore, LN creates a chart that starts at the beginning of period 2, that is, on March 15.

This example shows that the last period can actually be shorter than the normal period length.

If you cannot get the chart to work

The Help below is written for WindowsNT users. If your computer uses another operating system, the same principles apply, but the directory or folder names must be altered accordingly.

You must have the ERP Graphics program correctly installed on your computer before you can use this session:

The GRAPHS32.OCX file must be in the C:\WINNT\Baan\bin folder (directory)
That folder must be in PATH of your user variable settings (on the Environment tab of the System folder of the Control Pannel).
The GRAPHS32.OCX file must not also be in another folder on your computer. If you have previously used an older version of Baan Windows it might be in the C:\WINNT\System32 folder. In that case you must rename it (to GRAPHS32.OCX.bak, for instance), and you must also rename all the DLL files in that folder which have the same date as the GRAPHS32.OCX file.