With the buttons in the left navigation area, you can open the individual areas of the Administrator Workbench. The system will display the views and functions that are available in this area. By clicking on these views and functions, you can call them up in the right screen area.
The Administrator Workbench is used in SAP APO to create the data objects required for the Demand Planning, to enable data to be loaded from different data sources, and to monitor the data loading operations and the data updates. In this way, data extracted for the Demand Planning from different data sources (SAP ERP systems and SAP-external sources) can be imported into the SAP NetWeaver BI of the SAP APO system, which is then permanently stored in the data store. The Demand Planning can then access this data at any time.
By using the Business Content delivered by SAP, you can dispense with the bulk of the configuration work inherent in a business intelligence (BI) system, and therefore also for SAP NetWeaver BI in the SAP APO system. The Administrator Workbench is used to activate the Business Content delivered by SAP.
If it becomes necessary to create new SAP NetWeaver BI objects for specific requirements, this task can be easily executed with the functions of the Administrator Workbench. This may become necessary if special historical data from non-SAP systems is to be used for the Demand Planning. The integrated SAP NetWeaver BI component in SAP APO represents an important technical basis for integrating the most varied data sources into SAP APO in a very flexible way.