In SAP APO Transport Planning/Vehicle Scheduling, you have some additional functions that are used to manage authorization, error handling for TP/VS components. Few of the additional function includes −

 

• Error Handling (Consistency check, SCM queue manager, QRFC Monitoring, and Application Log)

   

• VS alerts monitoring

   

• Authorization in TP/VS

   

Error Handling

There are different TP/VS error handling and monitoring functions available. They are also valid mostly across SAP APO. Few of the functions are −

 

Consistency Check − Using this you can perform a consistency check on the customizing performed for SAP R/3 and for the master data. You can check all the error messages and detailed information.

 

Transaction Code − /n/SAPAPO/VSCC

 

 

You have to select relevant options in the degree of detail, version, master data, customizing, and Transaction data. Click the Execute button. The selection has to be made to perform a consistency check for different components.

 

 

It is also possible that you use this function to be run as a background job and the results are written to Application logs.

 

SCM Queue Manager − In the SCM system, you can also monitor the queues centrally and the sending and receiving system. You can also monitor the processing of queues in the sending and the receiving system.

 

Transaction Code − /n/SAPAPO/CQ

 

Managing Optimization Runs Using Log Files − You can also set the debug level of optimization run in APO system using Transaction - /SAPAPO/OPT10 and you can also save the trace file for optimizer using Transaction Code - /SAPAPO/OPT11

 

VS Alert Monitoring

You can use a VS alert profile to monitor the alerts for Vehicle Scheduling using the alert monitor. Different user-specific selection of alerts can be done in VS alert profile. SAP APO system provides you the list of alerts related to VS for VS alert profile. Few of the commonly available alert types are −

 

• Order due date changed by VS
• Loading resource is overloaded
• Order not scheduled in the shipment by the optimizer
• The order was changed in OLTP
• Shipment − Resource is overloaded

Authorization in TP/VS

SAP TP/VS uses the SAP authorization concept to control user access to the SAP APO application. There are various authentication methods that are provided −

 

• User IDs and user management tools

   

• Secure Network Communication

   

• SAP Logon Tickets

   

• X.509 Client Certificates

   

User IDs and User Management Tools