Vistex Configuration for BI

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Summary
This document gives an insight into configuring Vistex data sources for BI usage.

Author: Tej Trivedi

Company: L&T Infotech
Created on: 18 January 2010

Author Bio
Tej Trivedi is a SAP BI/BO Consultant currently working in Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. He
has over 4+years of core experience in various BW/BI Implementation, Migration, Rollout,
Support Pack Upgrade and Support Projects. The experience includes 1 year experience on
BO Platform.

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Table of Contents
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 3
Business Scenario .............................................................................................................................................. 3
Vistex Data Source Overview ......................................................................................................................... 3
Vistex Data Source Customizing .................................................................................................................... 4
Number Range Maintenance .............................................................................................................................. 4
Setup Details ................................................................................................................................................... 6
Underlying Tables used by Vistex Data Sources ............................................................................................... 9
Namespace Maintenance in BI ......................................................................................................................... 10
Setting up Delta for Vistex Data Source ........................................................................................................... 10
BI objects for Vistex .......................................................................................................................................... 10
Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 11
Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 12

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Introduction
Vistex is a third-party tool provided by Vistex Inc. It is an add-on to the ECC server. In other words, it sits on
top of ECC. It is best suited to handle complex calculation like processing rebates, sales commissions, Bill
backs, chargeback in ECC. It has a different set of objects and tables. Vistex provides valuable solutions to
organization that operates in one of the following sectors:
 Wholesale Distribution
 Consumer and Commercial Products
 Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices
 Industrial Machinery and Components
 High Tech and Electronics
 Process Manufacturing
 Retail

Vistex provides the Incentives and Paybacks (IP) Module which is comprised of two fully-integrated
embedded SAP add-on applications, SAP Incentives Administration by Vistex and SAP Paybacks and
Chargeback by Vistex. The data generated by the add-on applications can be extracted to BI by the data
sources provided by Vistex. This document outlines the important steps needed to use Vistex data sources.

Business Scenario
You company is using Vistex and you want to extract the data into BI for reporting purpose.

Vistex Data Source Overview

Vistex Data Sources are available for following applications:
 Claim Request
 Revenue/Cost Adjustments
 Billbacks
 Chargebacks
 Purchasing Rebates
 Customer Rebates
 Sales Incentives

There are three data sources for each of the above mentioned applications. The three data source includes
data source for header data, item data and condition data. BW data sources are available in Vistex releases
30B SP6, 40B SP7 and 60A SP4. If you have any of this Vistex releases installed on your ECC server then
you can view Vistex data sources in RSA6 under “SD” application component. Below is the screenshot of the
same.

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Vistex Data Source Customizing

Customizing of Vistex data sources can be carried out through “LO Data Extraction: Customizing Cockpit”
(i.e. t-code: LBWE). You will find Vistex data sources under the logistic application “RM: /IRM/- Vistex
applications” as shown in the below screenshot

One has to follow the standard activation and configuration process to customize or enhance the extract
structure of Vistex data sources.

Number Range Maintenance

Before running the setup for Vistex data sources, one has to maintain number range in ECC as follows:
1. Execute transaction: SNRO
2. Maintain the settings for object “/IRM/MCEX” as shown in the below screenshots

3. Navigate as shown in the below screenshot to maintain “Number Ranges”

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Following screen will appear.

4. Maintain “Number Range Interval” as shown in the below screenshot

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Setup Details
Vistex provides different programs to fill the setup tables as well as to delete the setup tables. For every
application, there are different programs. Following are the programs for setup and setup deletion by
application
Application Setup Program Setup Delete program

Global Claim /IRM/MCGCR_SETUP_LOAD /IRM/MCGCR_SETUP_DELETE

Request

Billbacks /IRM/MCIPBB_SETUP_LOAD /IRM/MCIPBB_SETUP_DELETE

Sales Incentives /IRM/MCIPSI_SETUP_LOAD /IRM/MCIPSI_SETUP_DELETE

Charge Backs /IRM/MCIPCB_SETUP_LOAD /IRM/MCIPCB_SETUP_DELETE

Customer Rebates /IRM/MCIPCR_SETUP_LOAD /IRM/MCIPCR_SETUP_DELETE

Purchasing /IRM/MCIPPR_SETUP_LOAD /IRM/MCIPPR_SETUP_DELETE

Rebates

Global Revenue / /IRM/MCGRCA_SETUP_LOAD /IRM/MCGRCA_SETUP_DELETE

Cost Adjustments

We will see an example of Customer Rebate setup. Proceed as follows:

1. Execute transaction “SE38” and enter the program name as “/IRM/MCIPCR_SETUP_LOAD”.

2. By default the fields “Created On”, “Date of termination” and “Time of termination” is populated with
latest information. For example, current date is populated in “Created On” and “Date of termination”
whereas current time is populated in “Time of termination” as shown in the screenshot below:

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Make sure that you change these parameters otherwise setup will not take care of historic documents.
3. Check the “New run” checkbox and mention the setup name in the “Name of run” field. Execute the
setup in background as shown in the below screenshot.

Other selections can be given at the time of setup as per the requirement.
In order to delete setup table, proceed as follows:
1. Execute transaction “SE38” and enter the program name as “/IRM/MCIPCR_SETUP_DELETE”.

2. On executing the above program, you will see a “Confirmation Prompt” as shown in the below
screenshot.

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On confirmation, the setup tables of “Customer Rebates” application will be deleted.

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Underlying Tables used by Vistex Data Sources

The Delta process of all Vistex data sources is “ABR”. Following are the details of the underlying tables from
which the data is fetched.
Vistex Data source Data source Description Underlying Tables Table Description
/IRM/GCRHDR,
/IRM/LIS_RM_GCRCON Claim request: Conditions /IRM/GCRITM, KONV
/IRM/LIS_RM_GCRHDR Claim request Header /IRM/GCRHDR Claim Request Header
/IRM/LIS_RM_GCRITM Claim request: Items /IRM/GCRITM Claim Request Items
Revenue/Cost /IRM/GRCAHDR,
/IRM/LIS_RM_GRCACON Adjustments Conditions /IRM/GRCAITM, KONV
Revenue/Cost Revenue/Cost Adjustment
/IRM/LIS_RM_GRCAHDR Adjustments Header /IRM/GRCAHDR - Header Details
Revenue/Cost Revenue/Cost Adjustment
/IRM/LIS_RM_GRCAITM Adjustments Items /IRM/GRCAITM - Items details
/IRM/LIS_RM_IPBBHDR IP: Billbacks Header /IRM/IPBBHDR Billbacks - Header data
/IRM/LIS_RM_IPBBITM IP: Billbacks Items /IRM/IPBBITM Billbacks - Item data
/IRM/IPBBHDR,
/IRM/LIS_RM_IPBBKON IP: Billbacks Conditions /IRM/IPBBITM, KONV
Chargebacks - Header
/IRM/LIS_RM_IPCBHDR IP: Chargebacks Header /IRM/IPCBHDR data
/IRM/LIS_RM_IPCBITM IP: Chargebacks Items /IRM/IPCBITM Chargebacks - Item data
IP: Chargebacks /IRM/IPCBHDR,
/IRM/LIS_RM_IPCBKON Conditions /IRM/IPCBITM, KONV
IP: Customer Rebates Customer Volume Rebates
/IRM/LIS_RM_IPCRHDR Header /IRM/IPCRHDR - Header data
IP: Customer Rebates Customer Volume Rebate
/IRM/LIS_RM_IPCRITM Items /IRM/IPCRITM - Item data
IP: Customer Rebates /IRM/IPCRHDR,
/IRM/LIS_RM_IPCRKON Conditions /IRM/IPCRITM, KONV
Sales Incentives - Header
/IRM/LIS_RM_IPSIHDR IP: Sales Incentives Header /IRM/IPSIHDR data
Sales Incentives - Item
/IRM/LIS_RM_IPSIITM IP: Sales Incentives Items /IRM/IPSIITM data
IP: Sales Incentives /IRM/IPSIHDR,
/IRM/LIS_RM_IPSIKON Conditions /IRM/IPSIITM, KONV

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Namespace Maintenance in BI

Before replicating the Vistex data sources in BI, one has to maintain the namespace for Vistex. The system
will not allow activating the data source if namespace is not maintained in BI. The namespace for Vistex is
“/IRM/”. Namespace '/IRM/' must be entered in both the BI table RSNSPACE and the basic table
TRSNSPACE or the view V_TRNSPACE. Generally, maintaining namespace in standard tables or views is
carried out by basis consultants. Hence, one should contact the basis team to carry out this activity.
Namespace maintenance in ECC is taken care during Vistex installation. Below is the screenshot of the view
“V_TRNSPACE” in which Vistex namespace is maintained.

Setting up Delta for Vistex Data Source

Vistex provides different delta programs to extract delta from ECC. After executing initialization from BW, one
has to schedule the delta programs in order to schedule the delta infopackages. Following are the Delta
Programs by application:

Application Delta Programs

Global Claim /IRM/MCGCR_DELTA

Request

Billbacks /IRM/MCIPBB_DELTA

Sales Incentives /IRM/MCIPSI_DELTA

Charge Backs /IRM/MCIPCB_DELTA

Customer Rebates /IRM/MCIPCR_DELTA

Purchasing /IRM/MCIPPR_DELTA
Rebates

Global Revenue / /IRM/MCGRCA_DELTA

Cost Adjustments

BI objects for Vistex

Apart from the data sources, there is no standard content available for Vistex. One will have to create a
custom data targets in order to report on Vistex data.

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Related Content
Vistex
Vistex BW Extractors for IP Module
For more information, visit the Business Intelligence homepage

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