Integrating with Cognos 10.1.1

Sterling Warehouse Management System integrates with Cognos 10.1.1 to generate reports. The report criteria is entered in the Application Console and posted to the Cognos URL. This provides the flexibility to control the reports based on your user group permissions.

Users

Users are set up in Sterling Warehouse Management System and need not be set up separately in Cognos 10.1.1.

Reports can be accessed by Sterling Warehouse Management System console users. You can access only those reports for which your user groups have permission.

For more information about defining Users and User Groups, see the Configuring system-wide settingsConfiguring supplied and add-on solutions topic on the corresponding version of the Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Suite information center.

User Groups

User groups are a collection of users who perform similar tasks. For example, a group of inventory supervisors might be put in an Inventory Supervisor user group. Users can belong to multiple user groups. These user groups are assigned permissions that applicable to all users in the user group.

Each organization has its own user groups. User groups can only contain users for the same organization for which the user was created, except in the case of a user group created by the Hub organization, which can contain users of any organization.

For more information about defining Users and User Groups see the Configuring system-wide settingsConfiguring supplied and add-on solutions topic on the corresponding version of the Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Suite information center.

Dynamic Menus

Integrating with Cognos 10.1.1 enables Sterling Warehouse Management System to provide data to the user interface for generating reports. Dynamic menus enable users to access reports from the appropriate consoles. The reports displayed in these menus are based upon the user group to which the user belongs.

For example, let us consider the differences in the menu displayed to users belonging to the group representing inventory supervisors and the menu displayed to users belonging to the group representing shipping supervisors: