Environmental Impact Dashboard

This chapter covers the following topics:

Overview

Environmental Impact Dashboard enables the organizations to monitor its return streams to reduce returns processing costs, recover value from returned assets, build better products, and minimize its impact on the environment. Environmental Impact Dashboard also helps to adhere to various environmental regulations such as WEEE and ROHS. These laws require organizations to take back products that a customer no longer wants, take back packaging materials, track the recycling programs and scrap contributions, and remove hazardous materials from returns and dispose them properly. Organizations require tools to help manage these new requirements, minimize their costs and provide the reporting necessary to comply with the legislation.

The Environmental Impact Dashboard enables you to perform the following:

Environmental Impact Dashboard Overview

The Environmental Impact Dashboard displays current Returns Streams and Material Disposition metrics. The header of the Environmental Impact Dashboard enables you to select the time period and organizational scope for which you want to see data.

Note: You must run the concurrent program, Depot Environmental Impact Dashboard Business Intelligence, to update the materialized views and set the profile option CSD: Default Category Set for Environmental Impact Dashboard to Yes before running queries in the Environmental Impact Dashboard.

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The Environmental Impact Dashboard Header displays the following information:

You can view metrics for across all operating units and also view metrics for any operating unit if the profile option, CSD: Environmental Impact Dashboard Visibility Level, is set to Enterprise level. If you have operating unit visibility, and MOAC is enabled, the Operating Unit field in the Environmental Impact Dashboard header requires you to pick an operating unit you have access to via MOAC setup, in order to query Returns metrics. If MOAC is not enabled and the profile is set to Operating Unit, then the operating unit field in the Environmental Impact Dashboard is not updateable and is set to the operating unit specified by the profile MO: Operating Unit.

To view the relevant return streams, enter the fields mentioned above and click the Go button. The Returns tab, Eco-Impact tab, Disposition Summary tab, and the Put on Market tab populate with the information of the specified period.

The body of the Environmental Impact Dashboard contains four tabs - Returns, Eco-Impact, Disposition Summary, and Put on Market. For more details about these tabs, select one of the following:

Using the Returns Tab

The Returns tab displays a consolidated report of the number of units returned by the return stream

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The Return Stream Comparisons region displays the following information.

Note: The Returns tab includes only the RMAs that are received. The rcv_transaction entry exists for the order line and has source_document_code= RMA and transaction_type = DELIVER.

The Returns by Inventory Organization graph represents the flow of returns for a particular inventory organization for a selected period and its corresponding previous year.

The Returns by Return Stream graph represents the flow of returns for various return streams for a selected year and its corresponding previous year.

The Returns Trends for Selected Period graph shows the total flow of returns for a selected period.

The Returns Trends for Prior Period graph shows the total flow of returns for the previous period.

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Using the Eco-Impact Tab

The Eco-Impact Tab provides a comparative analysis of targeted eco-impacts. The tab provides the following information:

Note: All the Scrap and Hazardous Materials metrics are measured by the amount/weight of the materials that were WIP negative issued or returned with a reason code that belongs to the Scrap/Hazardous Materials dispositions that were setup.

Using the Disposition Summary Tab

The Disposition Summary tab provides an overview of the profit and loss from processing different categories for returned materials in different ways. For each category and disposition combination, the table lists the cost to process the material, the value of the recovered material, and the profitability of the value minus the cost. Operations personnel use this table to track the effectiveness of various processing options.

The Disposition Summary Information region of the Disposition Summary tab displays the following information:

Using the Put on Market Tab

The Put on Market tab helps to assess how much the given products or product category been sold or placed into a specific geographic region by the business. This is required for regulatory compliance in many countries and states.

The Put on Market tab displays the following information: