Patent ID: 7792886

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for monitoring warehouse activities, comprising the steps performed by a computer of: receiving inbound information reflecting the status of wares destined for storage in a warehouse; receiving internal information reflecting movement of the wares within the warehouse; receiving outbound information reflecting outbound processing of the wares; organizing the storage of the inbound, internal, and outbound information into a hierarchical tree of nodes, in which a parent node corresponds to one of the inbound information, the internal information, or the outbound information and first and second child nodes associated with the parent node correspond respectively to a document view and a process view, wherein: the document view includes information about documents associated with the inbound information, the outbound information, and the internal information, and the process view includes information about process steps associated with the inbound information, the outbound information, and the internal information; presenting the hierarchical tree to a user; receiving at least one instruction from the user selecting at least one of the nodes in the hierarchical tree, the at least one instruction including the selection of a data object in accordance with the document view or the process view; and displaying each data object corresponding to the selected node, wherein presenting comprises displaying, for each one node, a context menu containing different options, wherein the different options differ according to a location level of the one node within the hierarchical tree of nodes, and wherein the hierarchical tree of nodes comprises a profile node, which includes a data object corresponding to at least one of a selection screen, function, view, object class, or operational method; and a variant node, which includes an existing profile node, wherein a selection criteria or a list view layout of the existing profile node is varied based on a location of the variant node within the hierarchical tree.