SAP PP Working with business workplace

Inside this PDF

1. Introduction to SAP PP (Production Planning)
2. Bill of Material (BoM) in SAP PP: Create, Change, Display
3. Work Center in SAP PP: Create, Change, Display
4. How to Create/Change/Display Routing in SAP PP
5. How to Create Production version in SAP PP C223
6. SAP Demand Management Tutorial: MD61, MD62, MD04, MD74, MD75
7. SAP MRP (Material Requirement Planning) Tutorial: MD01, MD02,
MD04
8. Long Term Planning (LTP) Tutorial in SAP PP: MS31, MS02, MD61
9. SAP PP Capacity Planning: CM01, CM21
10. Goods Movement against Production Order in SAP PP: MIGO
11. Production Order in SAP: CO01, MD16, CO02, CO15
12. SAP PP Reports Tutorial: COOIS, MB52, CS15, CS12

Working with the Business Workplace

Use
You can start workflows and edit work items as well as create, edit and send documents and messages in
the Business Workplace.

Features
The following screen areas are available in the Business Workplace:
Folders

The folders of your Business Workplace are displayed here in a tree structure. By clicking on a folder you
call the contents of that folder.

Contents list

A list is displayed here of all the documents, distribution lists, folders and objects contained in the folder
that you have selected in the folder tree. By clicking once you call the preview of a list entry, by double-
clicking you branch to the full screen display of this list entry.

Preview

The list entry that is selected in the folder contents list is displayed here, provided that the entry supports
the preview. Further functions are available in the work item preview. If necessary, you can hide the
preview.

Activities
The initial screen of the Business Workplace provides the following functions:

Function Description
Create and send new messages Choose New Message.

Proceed as described in Sending a Short Message.

Find folder Choose Find folder.

The dialog box for folder selection is displayed.

Find Document Choose Find document.

The dialog box for the document search is displayed.

Maintain appointment calendar Choose Appointment Calendar.

Your appointment calendar is opened in a new session.

Display employee calendar 1. Choose Environment  Employee calendar

2. In the subsequent dialog box, enter the name of an
employee.
3. Choose .

The appointment calendar of the employee is displayed in

a new session. Provided that you have authorization, you
can also maintain the employee calendar.

Display employee address with 1. Choose Environment  Display personal data

detailed data 2. In the subsequent screen, enter search criteria for the
required user, for example, the name or department.

A generic entry with * as the joker for a character string

(e.g. B*ker) is permitted for the name.

3. Choose .

A list of all the users who fulfill the search criteria is

displayed.

Find and display external addresses Choose Environment --> External contact persons or External
companies or External directory service.

A search screen in which you can search for addresses is

displayed.

Maintain office settings Choose Settings --> Office settings.

A dialog box is displayed in which your private office settings are

arranged according to subject areas on tab pages.

Save or do not save Workplace If you want your Workplace to appear with the same settings (for
display when exiting example, the way the folder tree is expanded, which folders are
 displayed) the next time you call it, you have to save these
settings when you exit. You can also switch off this function.

In order to switch between saving and not saving,

choose Settings --> Save when exiting or Do not save when
exiting.

Only the executable menu option is displayed each time.

Hide or show document preview Choose Settings --> Hide preview or Show preview.

Only the executable menu option is displayed each time.

Further functions are available in the screen areas Folders and Folder contents list. For further
information, see Business Workplace: Workflow Functions and Send, Folder and Office Functions.

Calling the Business Workplace

Menu Path Description

Office  Workplace It is preset that the workplace is displayed in the same way as it
was when you last left it. This does not apply to the way the folder
contents list is sorted.

If you have specified that the Business Workplace display is not to

be saved, the Workplace is always displayed as it was when this
function was called.