Material Workbench
The Material Workbench presents material information that is aggregated in a hierarchical list. The list displays up to five aggregation levels. The information is presented in user-defined time buckets, for example, using a two-week bucket. Critical materials can be identified by coloring or filtering. Using the Material Workbench, you can take decisions, perform a simulation, and display the consequences directly.
- Select the items to display.
- Select the item fields to display.
- Select aggregation across warehouse or across items.
- Filter on item information, for example, identify items with material issues.
- Use material workbench as scoreboard record.
- Item selection
- Report start, bucket size, and horizon
- Report display selection, for example, U/M
On the behavior tab, you can select the item filter, the Scoreboard record count level, and the coverage days logic. behavior tab, you can select these elements:
On the behavior tab, you can select coloring based on standard coloring, color coding, field filter coloring, coverage days coloring or material shortage coloring.
On the, , and behavior tabs, you can select up to three levels of aggregation.
On the behavior tab, you can select the output for the planning level items. Planning level items are the level where material synchronization has been performed.
On the behavior tab, you can select the output for the item or warehouse level inside the planning level item. This tab is relevant only if material synchronization has been performed on a higher level than item-warehouse level.
On the behavior tab, you behavior tab, you can select the supplies or demands that are displayed and the information that is displayed for each supply and demand.
Report Control
The Material Workbench presents material information that is aggregated in a hierarchical list. The list displays up to five aggregation levels. You can decide the number of levels to display, zoom in or out of the levels, and scroll forward or backward in the time buckets to display the planned load. You can take decisions and access the Work Center Resource, the Supply Chain Navigator, the Utilization, the Work Center Schedule, and the Material Control from the Material Workbench.
You can run a selected workflow from the Material Workbench, for example, to perform a simulation after decisions and display the consequences for the plan.
The report can display up to five aggregation levels, plus the supply and demand level. Each aggregation level shows a folder symbol and the selected aggregation is displayed in the folder line. The underlying aggregation levels are displayed indented under each other.
To display the tooltip of a supply icon or demand icon, rest the mouse pointer over the aggregation icon. For aggregations, the tooltip displays grouping information that is selected on the aggregation levels. For supplies or demands, the tooltip displays additional information that is selected on the tab.
Scoreboard Record
Scoreboard records display the KPIs that are defined by the planner. These examples show how KPIs can be used:
- How many items have shortages inside two weeks
- How many items will get below 20% of the coverage days target inside three weeks
- How many items will get above 140% of the coverage days target inside one week
- How many items have manufacturing orders, inside one week, that are waiting for purchase orders that are not yet received
- How many purchased items will cause delay due to late purchase orders inside two weeks
Symbols and buttons
See the symbol and button tooltips in the application.