Inventory Analysis Overview
Application component: Overview Page for Inventory Management
App type: Analytical
Line of business: Supply Chain
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Goods Movement (S/4)|Inventory Analytics and Control (S/4)
Description:  With this app, you can display as an inventory analyst, at a glance, the most important information and tasks relevant for you right now. The information is displayed on a set of actionable cards. You can therefore focus on the most important tasks, enabling faster decisions and immediate action. The cards show you the most important information ranked according to relevance. For example, on the Stock Value Increase despite Consumption card, you can monitor, at a glance, the top 20 materials (for which you are responsible) that had the highest stock value increase despite consumption in the last 365 days. You can get more information about individual materials by clicking on the corresponding dots in the chart that lead you to the Dead Stock Analysis app. With this Dead Stock Analysis app, you can make further time-dependent investigations of your dead stock. You can use the filter bar to display all cards of the entire overview page Inventory Analysis Overview by displaying currency or plant, for example. Depending on the specified filter criteria, you then see all unexpected stock value increases, monitor batches over time, or recognize slow-moving materials. For list cards, selecting the header of a card takes you to the app itself, while selecting an item takes you to more detailed item information. For graphical or analytical cards, selecting the card takes you to more detailed analytical information. To use the overview page Inventory Analysis Overview, you require the business catalog role SAP_BCR_MM_IM_ANALYSIS_OVP assigned to your user and the business catalog SAP_MM_BC_IM_ANALYSIS_OVP. If these requirements are met, the following cards are available on the overview page:  Stock Value Increase despite Consumption   More than 100 Days without Consumption   Monitor Batches by Longest Time in Storage   Monitor Batches by Earliest Expiration Date   
The overview page Inventory Analysis Overview enables inventory analysts to perform their daily tasks quickly and effectively without the need to open many different reports and transactions.
Key features:  You can customize the overview page by rearranging cards and by hiding or showing them. You can drag and drop cards to rearrange them. You can also adapt the individual card size and make it larger or smaller according to your needs. To hide a card, proceed as follows:  In the header bar, select the User icon and select Manage Cards. Use the switch control to hide or show the relevant card. Select OK.   To reset the view to the default settings, select Reset in the Manage Cards window.   As mentioned above, you can also apply a filter to the displayed information, which will affect all relevant cards. For example, you can filter the content of all cards according to a specific plant or material group. SAP delivers a filter variant that can be used immediately. It contains some predefined values for the filter bar. You can make your own variant by selecting the Select Variant dropdown arrow. You can also customize the filter by selecting Adapt Filter. This table describes the various cards that appear on the overview page Inventory Analysis Overview:    Card Name   Description      Stock Value Increase despite Consumption     Shows you the top 20 materials with the highest stock value increase in the last 365 days despite existing consumption postings within that period.   Priority is sorted according to stock value.   If you select the card header, you access the Dead Stock Analysis app with the corresponding parameters.   If you select one data point (material) from the scatter chart, you access the Dead Stock Analysis app that displays the selected material in more detail.       More than 100 Days without Consumption     Shows you where the stock level is greater than zero and no consumption posting was carried out for at least 100 days. Note A value of zero means that no material consumption took place at all for a material in the selected time period.   The chart displays values and the number of materials grouped in intervals of 50 days for days without consumption.   If you select the card header, you access the Slow or Non-Moving Materials app with the corresponding parameters.   If you select an interval (material value or number of materials) you will access the Slow or Non-Moving Materials app that displays the selected materials in more detail.   Note When you call the app, the system loads the associated data of the card More than 100 Days without Consumption from the backend. The displayed data is based on the selected filter criteria and the result is stored by the system for 1 hour to improve performance. As long as you do not adjust the filter criteria within this hour, the system always uses this previously saved data for a new query.     Monitor Batches by Longest Time in Storage     Shows you the batches sorted according to the longest storage period and quantity.   Priority is sorted according to the longest storage period (based on the production date) and value.   If you select the card header, you access the Stock - Multiple Materials app with the corresponding parameters.   If you select one item, you access the Stock Multiple Materials app that displays the selected material in more detail.       Monitor Batches by Earliest Expiration Date     Shows you the batches sorted according to the closest to expiration date and quantity.   Priority is sorted according to the earliest expiration date (based on the shelf life expiration date) and value.   If you select the card header, you access the Stock - Multiple Materials app with the corresponding parameters.   If you select one item, you access the Stock - Multiple Materials app that displays the selected material in more detail.   Note A shelf life expiration date with a negative sign is marked in red (otherwise marked in green). Red means that the defined shelf life expiration date has already been exceeded.    Note The app calculates the stock values based on the stock quantity of the selected reporting date multiplied by the current material price. This means that the app always calculates using the current material price, irrespective of the reporting date you have selected. This calculation method for the stock value is common to all Fiori apps in Inventory Management.  
Business roles: Inventory Analyst
Inventory Analyst : 
Analyzes stock figures and historical stock information.