Business Scenario: Compare Scenario

Business Scenario: Compare Scenario

This article is part of the Business Scenario series, split from the original Business Scenario article.

Compare Scenario

Listed in the Compare Scenario tab is the Working Scenario along with other scenarios (for example, Budget Scenario) after being generated from LP and DRP. 









Metrics and Metrics Settings

Click the Metrics button to open the Visible Metrics window to check on or off various metrics so that are visible in the comparison scenario. 







  1. Check the boxes of the metrics you would like to view in the scenario. Click Apply. 








  1. Click the Settings link in the Visible Metrics window to launch a separate browser tab to the Arkieva Settings Supply tab. 












Compare

The Compare screen will provide details on Summary, Demand, Supply, Resource Utilization, Inventory and Report. You can also add widgets and reports. 











Scenario Load Settings

Configuring Scenario Load Settings:
  1. On the Compare Scenario page, click Scenario Load Settings.
  2. In the dialog, configure:
    1. Scenario Runs per Load – how many additional runs are fetched each time you click Load More Scenario Runs.
    2. Maximum Scenario Runs Loaded – the cap on the total number of scenario runs held in memory at one time. Once the cap is reached, no additional runs are loaded.
  3. Click Apply to save, or Cancel to discard changes.
Loading More Scenario Runs:
  1. Navigate to Supply Planner → compare scenario
  2. The comparison chart and table show the most recent scenario runs, along with the Working and Budget scenarios.
  3. Click Load More Scenario Runs (above the scenario table) to fetch the next batch of older runs. Each click loads the number of runs defined in Scenario Runs per Load.

























Discard and Import only 'Optimized' activities

  1. When publishing an LP Result to the working scenario, you can select activities to discard. This action applies only to activities (MO/PO/STO) in orbit with TransactionType selected by the you (same UI as MRP for discard); no other transactions will be discarded.
  2. The LP result includes a field "Activity_Type". Only those with activity_type = 'Optimized' should be added to the working scenario.







Action

After selecting an item from the material flow, you are given more options in the grid. The Action dropdown has Details & Publish, Hide in chart, and Delete.




Details & Publish

Here you can view the Item, Location, Start Time, Manufacturing Method, and Quantity of Production, Consumption, Procurements, and Transfers.

You can also Run the Publish command and then see the Run Details. 



















Report tab

Go to the Report tab to compare scenarios, create reports, and export reports. For example you can create a report that shows item-location and dates at different aggregate levels.

  1. When you click on the Report tab, you will be asked to select a previously created report, or select available data to create a new report.




  1. After making a selection, the report layout will launch. 





  1. To export a report to CSV, Excel, and PDF, right-click the chart, hover the mouse pointer over Export, and select one of the three options. A Preview window will popup showing the report. 











  1. Click Return to Overview to go back to the Compare Scenario tab.






Business Scenario series