| # Displaying data in Item/Channel Planning Chart The following chart types are available: Demand chart Supply chart Inventory chart Demand, supply, and inventory chart Cost chart Cash flow chart Cost and cash flow chart To display data: Specify a plan site, a scenario, and a plan level. Select a range of plan items. Specify a channel (optional). If you specify a channel, LN displays a channel chart; otherwise, an item chart is shown. Specify whether the values shown on the chart must be aggregated for the selected items or channels, and whether the values shown must be cumulative. Specify the start date, the period length, and the maximum number of periods for the chart. Choose a chart type Click Show Chart Note To draw the chart, LN redivides the scenario into time periods, starting from the scenario's start date, and according to the value of the Number of Periods in View field. Therefore, the actual start date used for the chart can be earlier than the requested start date entered. Determining chart periods: example Scenario start date: March 1 Scenario finish date: April 30 Chart start date: March 20 Period length: 14 days The scenario is divided into the following chart periods:
Period | From | To
1 | March 1 | March 14
2 | March 15 | March 28
3 | March 29 | April 12
4 | April 13 | April 27
5 | April 28 | April 30
The requested start date for the chart is in period 2. Therefore, LN creates a chart that starts at the beginning of period 2, that is, on March 15. This example shows that the last period can actually be shorter than the normal period length. If you cannot get the chart to work The Help below is written for WindowsNT users. If your computer uses another operating system, the same principles apply, but the directory or folder names must be altered accordingly. You must have the ERP Graphics program correctly installed on your computer before you can use this session: The GRAPHS32.OCX file must be in the C:\WINNT\Baan\bin folder (directory) That folder must be in PATH of your user variable settings (on the Environment tab of the System folder of the Control Pannel). The GRAPHS32.OCX file must not also be in another folder on your computer. If you have previously used an older version of Baan Windows it might be in the C:\WINNT\System32 folder. In that case you must rename it (to GRAPHS32.OCX.bak, for instance), and you must also rename all the DLL files in that folder which have the same date as the GRAPHS32.OCX file. Related topics Master planning, an overview |