Enterprise Model Workbench (tcemm8350m000)

Field Information

View

Change View

The enterprise model workbench allows for several views that show various entities that are part of the enterprise.

The following views are available:

• Overall
• Legal Structure
• Sales
• Purchase
• Service
• Production
• Accounting
• Shipping
• Warehousing
• Project

Only the Overall and Legal Structure views show all of the entities of all the companies in the enterprise. The other views show specific subsets of the entities.

When the Legal Structure is selected the pushpins have different colors denoting different legal entities. A Legend is then provided at the bottom left of the map.

Hierarchical view

The hierarchical view pane shows all the entities on the map grouped by Country, City, Location and Entity. When an entity is selected in hierarchical view the details about the entity are shown in the Details Pane below.

Note: If the Legal Entity view is selected at the root of the branch the Legal Entity is added.

The hierarchical view is automatically adjusted when a pushpin is selected on the world map. The branches that the entities designated by the pushpin fold out to show all the individual entities.

The right side of the view shows an indicator telling how many entities are in every branch.

Details Pane

When an entity on the lowest level of the hierarchical view is selected the Details Pane shows the in-depth information about the entity.

All the entities have the general information provided with a few of the entities having additional function specific data provided for them:

• General

  A designation of the type of entity being examined
• The full address of the entity is provided
• The tax number of the entity

• Warehouse

  • Type of warehouse
  • External Site
  • Business partner

• Service Department

  • Service Department Type
  • Main Department
  • Field of Support

• Work Center

  • Work Center Type
  • Main Work Center
  • Subcontractor

Map pane

General

The map pane shows the world map with the entities marked by pushpins. The user can pan to a specific location such as a specific country or city or keep the default world view.

When an entity model is shown, the map zooms to fit all shown item.

Change the view of the map

When an Entity Model is shown, the map zooms to accommodate all items shown. The user can change the zoom factor or move to other parts of the map by panning.

Note: 

• After zooming or panning, the pushpins are reordered.
• Additional panning or zooming is still possible.
• No loading indicator is shown while zooming and panning.

Panning

To move to different parts of the map the user has to hold down the left key of the mouse and drag the map in to a new position.

Zooming

Various zoom options are available for this workbench:

• Zoom to Fit

  The Zoom to Fit option will set the zoom level in such way that maximum zoom is reached and all entities are shown.

• Zoom to Selected

  The map will zoom in so that all the selected entities are shown on the map area.

Note: There are 19 different zoom levels in some cases a view will zoom out more than is optimal.

Pushpins

Entities are represented on the map by pushpins. One pushpin can represent more than one entity in case of several locations grouped close together. The closer the user zooms the more entities will be represented by individual pins.

Colors

By default pushpins are grey with a blue center.

When the Legal Structure view is selected the center of the pushpin changes to the color designating the legal entity the underlying entity belongs to.

When one pushpin represents more than one legal entity, the inner circle is colored black to signify this.

To view which legal entities the pushpin represents, expand the Legend on the bottom left side of the map.

Legend

The Legend only appears on the map when the Legal Structure view is selected. .

Clustering

When several pushpins overlap due to their proximity to each other on the map they are clustered into a single pushpin on the map.

Entities are clustered when a second pushpin is located close enough to have a 40% or greater overlap with it's neighbour.

Zooming in to a specific location will display the separate entities that make up the cluster shown by the pushpin for that location.

Entities

Selecting entities

To select an entity the user has to click on one of the pushpins on the map. A selected pushpin is identified by a red border instead of the default grey. Click on a free place on the map to deselect all pushpins. If all the entities in selected pushpin belongs to same location then the complete details of address location is shown in Details Pane.

Note: 

Depending on how far the map is zoomed out the pushpin selected can be representing a cluster of entities. In this case clicking on it will select all the entities which are part of the cluster.

Selecting an entity or a cluster affects the hierarchical view layout. In case of a cluster the branch with selected entities is expanded and all other branches are collapsed.

Clicking on another pushpin will deselect all pushpins already selected.

When multiple pushpins need to be selected the SHIFT key needs to be clicked as the desired pushpins are selected. To select a set of pushpins the CTRL key needs to be clicked to drag a selection square over the desired set of pushpins.

Hovering entities

When an entity on the map is hovered, the count of entities in each type is shown in a tooltip.

Workbench Settings

Defaults

Several settings on the workbench can be changed such as the layout, placement and or the size of the panes, presentation settings and some of the settings for some of the business functionality.

All settings can be saved through the drop-down button in the upper right corner of the screen.

• Save Defaults

  When any of the settings are changed they can be saved as the new defaults for the workbench.

• Clear Defaults

  If the defaults are cleared the workbench will be re-set to the system default values the next time it is started.

• Get Defaults

  When reverting to the previous settings is needed this option will undo the newest changes.

• About

  A window is shown with the version number.

Map Provider

Entities are shown on a map positioned by using their latitude and longitude information. Several map providers are supported:

• Open street view

  An open source, licence free map provider.

• Bing

  To use this provider a license is needed. Users must purchase their own license. If a license key is stored in the LN system then Bing will be used as the default map provider. If the Bing license key isn't valid, no map will be shown.

Workbench Settings

The workings of the workbench can be influenced by one or more settings that can be edited in the settings window. These options can be reached through the Settings menu on the top right of the map pane.

The following settings can be modified:

• Show external warehouses

  If this check box is selected, all external warehouses are shown in the hierarchical view.

• Show Projects

  If this check box is selected, an additional Project view is added to the View menu.

• Show State

  If this check box is selected, the branches in the hierarchical view will expand using the following nodes: Country, State, City, Location, Entity. When not selected the State node is not visible.