Cockpit

The cockpit is the home page of the application. Structured as a dashboard it provides a number of widgets that a planner uses in his daily planning activities. It is an efficient starting point for the common activities.

The cockpit is configurable to meet the requirements and taste of your implementation. Customized widgets are also easy develop. In the Community Edition all users will see the same dashboard. In the Enterprise Edition every user gets his own dashboard, which he can customize interactively.

Cockpit

Available widgets

The following widgets are currently available:

  • Resource queue
    This is the list of operations that are about to be started on each resource.
  • Purchase queue
    Displays a list of new purchase orders that should be placed on your suppliers.
  • Shipping queue
    Displays a list of customer orders that are about to be shipped.
  • Welcome widget
    A welcome text to give first-time users some guidance to get started with the application.
  • News
    This widget picks up the latest news topics from frepple.com.
  • Recent actions
    Shows your most recent editing actions.
  • Generate plan
    Regenerates a constrained plan.
  • Alerts
    Shows a summary of the exceptions and problem areas.
  • Late orders
    Shows the most urgent orders that are planned late.
  • Short orders
    Shows the most urgent orders that are unplanned or incompletely planned.
  • Purchase order analysis
    Shows the urgency of the existing (locked) purchase orders.
  • Resource utilization
    Displays the resources with the highest utilization.
  • Delivery performance
    This widget shows the percentage of order lines that are planned to be shipped on time.
  • Inventory by location
    This widget shows the locations carrying the most inventory.
  • Inventory by item
    This widget shows the items which take up the most inventory value.

Configuring the cockpit

The configuration is different in the Community Edition and the Enterprise Edition.
In the Community Edition the same dashboard is configured for all users.
In the Enterprise Edition every user can easily customize the dashboard with the widgets that are most relevant for his/her daily work.
  • Default dashboard

    The default dashboard is configured in the file djangosettings.py. The setting DEFAULT_DASHBOARD specifies a) the number and width of each column, b) the widgets displayed in each column, and c) configuration values for the widget.

    DEFAULT_DASHBOARD = [
      {'width':'50%', 'widgets':[
        ("welcome",{}),
        ("resource_queue",{"limit":20}),
        ("purchase_queue",{"limit":20}),
        ("shipping_queue",{"limit":20}),
      ]},
      {'width':'25%', 'widgets':[
        ("recent_actions",{"limit":10}),
        ("execute",{}),
        ("alerts",{}),
        ("late_orders",{"limit":20}),
        ("short_orders",{"limit":20}),
      ]},
      {'width':'25%', 'widgets':[
        ("news",{}),
        ('resource_utilization',{"limit":5}),
        ("delivery_performance",{"green": 90, "yellow": 80}),
        ("inventory_by_location",{"limit":5}),
       ("inventory_by_item",{"limit":10}),
      ]},
      ]
    
  • Customized dashboards

    In the Enterprise Edition users can drag and drop the widgets to a different location. New widgets can be added by clicking on the wrench icon in the upper right corner of the screen. The new settings are automatically saved to the server.