Process Metrics

Process Metrics tab displays details such as Filter Criteria, Return Fields, Context Analytics, and so on for the related tables and business views of the selected enterprise process template. The Process Metrics is used to analyze and measure the overall performance of the process.

Click the Process Metrics icon. You can review the settings in the read-only mode.

For the Purchase Order process model, the process metrics displays the following information:

By default, the F4311 tab is displayed.

The Purchase Order Detail File table (F4311) fetches the following data:

• Object type: Table - Analytic
• Object Name: F4311
• Object Description: Purchase Order Detail File table
• The Filter Criteria displays the list of columns that are considered for filtering and the value each column is referring to. These filter options are displayed when you click the Show Filter Options icon to analyze the enterprise process. For more information, see "Using the Show Filter Options".
• The Series Type selected is Based on Returns. This criteria returns values.
• The Return Fields section lists the columns that return value. In the purchase order process model, the sum of the Extended Price and Extended Cost columns are returned as values.
• The system uses the data in Context Analytic section to generate charts. For every row in this section, a unique chart is generated.

Charts

Based on the details in the Context Analytic section, the data is grouped by Business Unit and Address Book in the Process Metrics tab. In Enterprise Process Modeler, two charts are generated for Business Unit and Supplier with chart names Spend Analysis by Business Unit and Spend Analysis by Supplier respectively.

This table lists and describes the charts that are available on the Process Metrics tab:

Component Title	Description
Spend Analysis by Business Unit	Use this chart to view the Spend Analysis by Business Unit. The grouping is based on Business Units. The chart depicts the Extended Price and Extended Cost for Business Units vertically.
Spend Analysis by Supplier	Use this chart to view the Spend Analysis by supplier. The grouping is based on Address Number. This chart depicts the Extended Price and Extended Cost for Suppliers horizontally.

The Purchase Order process model includes an additional process metric. Click the V4209B tab.

The process metrics displays the following information:

• Object type: View - Analytic
• Object Name: V4209B
• Object Description: PO Header - Hold Code View
• The Filter Criteria displays the list of columns that are considered for filtering and the value each column is referring to. In the Status Approval column all the status values are listed in the Values column.

• The Series Type selected is Based on Formula of Variables. The system performs mathematical calculations based on the variables defined in the Variables Definition and uses the formula provided in the Series Definition section and displays these values in the charts.

• The Variable Definition section defines each of the Variable ID and the status approval values for them.
• The Series Definition section defines the formula to calculate the Approval Rejection %.

  The system calculates the Approval Rejection % using the formula -{1}/{0}*100 that is, the Total number of orders that came for approval divided by the total number of rejection multiplied by 100. The system then returns this value.

• The Return Fields section lists the columns that return value.
• The system uses the data in Context Analytic section to generate charts. For every row in this section, a unique chart is generated.

  Charts

  In the Purchase Order process model, the Approval Rejection % is grouped by Address Number column and is represented in the Approval Rejection % by Buyer chart.

  This table lists and describes the charts that are available on the Process Metrics tab:

  Component Title	Description
  Approval Rejection % by Buyer	Use this chart to view the Approval Rejection % by Buyer. The grouping is based on Address Number. The chart depicts the approval percentage for buyers vertically.

Note:

The Enterprise Process Modeler displays the number of charts based on the rows defined in the Context Analytics section for F4311 and V4209B tabs. The Purchase Order process model displays the Spend Analysis by Business Unit, Spend Analysis by Supplier, and Approval Rejection % by Buyer charts in the Enterprise Process Modeler view (two from the F4311 tab and one from the V4209B tab).