Get the Most Out of Order-to-Cash and Requisition-to-Pay Reporting and Analytics Functionality in SAP NetWeaver BI

Don Welker Clarkston Consulting

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In This Session ...

We will discuss leveraging SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI) for Order-to-Cash (OTC) and Requisition-toPay (RTP) reporting and analysis We will introduce SAP Best Practices for Business Intelligence and evaluate the Sales, Purchasing, and Inventory Analysis scenarios We will focus on the back-end data acquisition and data modeling aspects We will gain an understanding of the applicable standard SAP ERP data sources, extract structures, underlying SAP tables, and their relationship to SAP NetWeaver BI DataStore Objects and InfoCubes We will address incorporating SAP NetWeaver BI within an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) framework
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What Well Cover

Order-to-Cash (OTC) and Requisition-to-Pay (RTP) process overview SAP Best Practices for Business Intelligence Leveraging master data views and conforming dimensions Aligning SAP and non-SAP data Wrap-up

Order-to-Cash Process
Master Data Sales Order Creation Delivery Processing WM Pick, Pack, Transportation Invoice Customer Receive Payment

SAP
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Functional Areas Customer Relationship Management Customer Service Sales Administration and Field Sales Finance Distribution Brand Marketing Accounts Receivable and Credit Management

WM = Warehouse Management

Requisition-to-Pay Process
Master Data Purchase Order Goods Receipt Creation Inventory Invoice Receipt Vendor Payment

SAP
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Functional Areas Supply Chain Management Purchasing Receiving Inventory Management Demand Planning Accounts Payable

Finance

What Well Cover

Order-to-Cash (OTC) and Requisition-to-Pay (RTP) process overview SAP Best Practices for Business Intelligence Leveraging master data views and conforming dimensions Aligning SAP and non-SAP data Wrap-up

SAP Best Practices for Business Intelligence

SAP Best Practices is the foundation for prepackaged ready-to-use SAP NetWeaver BI solutions SAP Best Practices covers well-proven, industryspecific business processes and supports to exploit the potentials of SAP ERP, SAP CRM, SAP SCM, SAP SRM, and SAP NetWeaver BI Based on flexible building block technology that provides the necessary guidelines and tools to enable content developers to create solutions that follow a common structure http://help.sap.com/bp_biv270/index.htm

Preconfigured Scenarios

Comprehensive set of scenarios across a broad spectrum of processes Financials Customer Relationship Management Supply Chain Management Product Lifecycle Management Human Capital Management SAP xApp Analytics

SAP Best Practices Scenario Implementation Steps

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

Establish BI Connectivity and General Settings for BI Integration Activate business content in Sandbox or Dev environment Review SAP ERP configuration and customizations to understand customer implementation and identify potential areas for risk Gather and analyze business requirements to identify gaps Prioritize gaps and estimate required work effort to resolve Establish overall implementation approach and finalize scope for phase

SAP Best Practices Scenario Implementation Steps (cont.)

7.

8. 9. 10.

11. 12.

Establish conformed dimensions across functional areas to support an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) framework Enhance DataSources/Extractors as necessary Enhance or create InfoObjects as necessary Enhance DataStore Objects (DSOs), and InfoCubes to resolve gaps and take into account performance considerations Develop process chains to automate loading processes Develop baseline queries and publish to Web portal

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SAP Best Practices for Business Intelligence

Sales Analysis Scenario Purchasing Analysis Scenario Inventory Analysis Scenario Financial Accounting Analysis Scenario

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Sales Analysis Scenario

The Scenario Documentation provides a high level summary of the applicable queries and the end-user procedural steps for query execution The Scenario Installation identifies the building blocks for implementing the specific scenario
Offers/ Orders Sales Analysis
Delivery Service Analysis

Basic Configuration Sales Analytics General Settings for BI Integration BI Connectivity

BI Connectivity and General Settings for BI Integration are the base building blocks that are leveraged throughout all SAP Best Practices scenarios

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General Settings for BI Integration InfoObject DataSources

Logistics General
LO-IO SD-IO MM-IO AC-IO FI-IO FI-AP-IO FI-AR-IO Logistics Master Data Sales Master Data

Sales and Distribution Materials Management Financial Accounting

T-Codes on SAP ERP System SBIW RSA3 RSA5 RSA6

Materials Management Master Data Accounting: General Master Data Financial Accounting: General Master Data Financial Accounting: Vendors Master Data Financial Accounting: Customers Master Data General DataSources Master Data

PI Basis
0CA-GD-IO
Activating all corresponding InfoObject (IO) DataSources initially will save time in the long run if you are installing multiple SAP Best Practices scenarios

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General Settings for BI Integration Activate BI Content

Transaction RSORBCT (Transfer BI Business Content) Basic BI Content Activation Steps Activate InfoObject Catalogs In Data Flow Before to define InfoAreas and InfoObjects in SAP NetWeaver BI Check error logs and resolve issues Activate DSOs or InfoCubes In Data Flow Before to define InfoPackages, Transformation Rules1, Data Transfer Processes (DTPs)1, Transfer Rules2, and Update Rules2 in SAP NetWeaver BI Check error logs and resolve issues Activate DSOs or InfoCubes In Data Flow After to define MultiProviders, Queries, Query Views, and Workbooks Check error logs and resolve issues Create and/or execute InfoPackages to load master and 1 Applicable to SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 DataSources transaction data
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Applicable to SAP BW 3.x DataSources

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General Settings for BI Integration Activation Steps 4

Gather Dependent Objects

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Select Objects and Transfer

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SD Transaction DataSources

Sales and Distribution

2LIS_11_VAHDR 2LIS_11_VAITM 2LIS_11_VAKON 2LIS_11_VASCL 2LIS_11_VASTH 2LIS_11_VASTI 2LIS_11_V_SSL 2LIS_12_VCHDR 2LIS_12_VCITM 2LIS_12_VCSCL 2LIS_13_VDHDR 2LIS_13_VDITM Sales Order Header Sales Order Item Order Conditions Sales Order Schedule Line Sales Order Header Status Sales Document Item Status Sales Order Delivery Delivery Header Delivery Item Schedule Line Delivery Billing Header Billing Item

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SD Sales Order Tables

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SD Sales Order Tables (cont.)

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SD Sales Order Tables (cont.)

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SD Sales Order Tables (cont.)

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SD Sales Order Tables (cont.)

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SD Sales Delivery Tables

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SD Sales Delivery Tables (cont.)

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SD Sales Billing Tables

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SD Sales Billing Tables (cont.)

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Sales Analysis Data Flow Sales Analysis and Offers/Orders

Inconsistent Use of DSOs and MultiProviders

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Sales Analysis Data Flow Delivery Service Analysis

Inconsistent Use of DSOs and MultiProviders

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SD Transaction DataStore Objects (DSOs)

Delivery Service Analysis 0SD_O01 Order Items 0SD_O02 Returns Items 0SD_O03 Orders 0SD_O04 Open Request Schedule Line 0SD_O05 Order Condition Data 0SD_006 Billing: Condition Data

2LIS_11_VAHDR 2LIS_11_V_SSL 2LIS_11_VASTH 2LIS_11_VAKON 2LIS_13_VDKON

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SD Transaction InfoCubes and MultiProviders

Sales Analysis
0SD_C03 Sales Overview 0SD_C10 Incoming Orders per Sales Employee 0SD_C15 Condition Value 0SD_MC01 Conditions: Order and Billing Document
2LIS_11_VAITM 2LIS_12_VCITM 2LIS_13_VDITM

Offers/Orders
0SC_C05 Offers/Orders

2LIS_11_VAHDR 2LIS_11_VAITM

Delivery Service Analysis

0SD_C11 Service Level - Order Quantities 0SD_C12 Service Level: Order Items 0SD_C13 Service Level: Orders 0SC_C14 Backorders
0SD_O01 Order Items 0SD_O02 Returns Items 0SD_O03 Orders 0SD_O04 Open Request Schedule Line

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Sales Overview Data Model

0SD_C03 Sales Overview

Organization Sales Overview
Cost in statistics currency No. of docs Number of Document Items Gross weight in kilograms Number of Employees Net value in statistics currency Net weight in kilograms Open orders Qty in base units Net value of open orders in statistic Qty in base units Subtotal 1 Subtotal 2 Subtotal 3 Subtotal 4 Subtotal 5 Subtotal 6 Volume

Sales Area

Customer

Document Classification Category/ Brand Value Type

Material

SD Document Category Version

Unit Time

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Incoming Orders per Sales Employee Data Model

0SD_C10 Incoming Orders per Sales Employee

Sales Employee
Employee Country Grouping Controlling Area Employee Group Employee Subgroup Employee Subgrp Group Master Cost Center Organizational Unit Payroll Area Pay Scale Area Pay Scale Group Pay Scale Level Pay Scale Type Personnel Area Personnel Subarea Sales Representative Sales Organization

Unit Sales Overview

Number of Employees Net Price

Time

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Sales Analysis Condition Value Data Model

0SD_C15 Condition Value

Organization Sales Area

Condition Value Customer

Cumulative Order Qty Condition Value (Local)

Condition

Material Time

Unit

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Sales Analysis Scenario Queries

Sales Overview Incoming Orders Deliveries Billing Delivery Service Analysis Orders Confirmed as Requested Open Order Qty for Last Week Backorders Delivery Overview Service Level Quantities Service Level Item Level (per Half-Year) Service Level Item Level Service Level Order Level Delivery Delays per Sold-to Party
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Offers/Orders

0SD_C05 Offers/Orders
Organization Offers/Orders
Cost in statistics currency No. of docs Number of Document Items Gross weight in kilograms Net value order item, Net value of rejected quotation items Net value in statistics currency No. of expired quotations No. of rejected quotation items Net weight in kilograms Order probability of quotation item No. of orders resulting from quotation Qty in base units of measure Condition Subtotal 1 Condition Subtotal 2 Condition Subtotal 3 Condition Subtotal 4 Condition Subtotal 5 Condition Subtotal 6 Volume in cubic decimeters

Value Type

Value Type Status

Customer

Material

Validity

Sales Area

Version

SD Document Category

Unit

Time

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Service-Level Order Quantities

0SD_C11 Service-Level Order Quantities

Organization Service Level Order Quantities
Confirmed Qty Confirmed value Qty delivered early Req Del Date Qty Delivered Early Schl Line Date Qty delivered late Req Del Date Qty delivered late Schl Line DAte Value delivered early Req Del Date Value delivered early Schl Line Date Value of late deliveries Req Del Date Value of late deliveries Schl Line Date Actual Qty delivered Actual Delivered Value Qty Confirmed as Requested Completely Delivered Qty Return Quantities Desired Delivery Qty Requested Delivery Value Value of Completely Delivered Value of Returns Value Confirmed as Requested

Category/ Brand Forwarding Agent Batch

Customer

Material

Order

Sales Area

Unit Time

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Service-Level Order Items

0SD_C12 Service-Level Order Items

Service Level Order Items
Cumulated Order Processing Time for Al Delivered early/late according to req. Delivered early/late according to schedule Delivered early acc. req. delivery date Delivered early acc. schedule line date Delivered late acc. req. delivery date Delivered late acc. schedule line date More Delivered than Requested Less Delivered than Requested Value delivered early/ late acc. req. Value of early/late deliveries acc. sc Value delivered early acc. req. delivery Value of early deliveries acc. schedule Value of late deliveries acc. req. del Value of late deliveries acc. schedule Value Delivered more Than Requested Less then Requested Delivery Value Delivery Within 24 Hours Actual Delivered Value Number of Document Items Confirmed as Requested Delivery from Warehouse Net value of the order item in document Requested Delivery Value Value with Delivery Within 24 Hours Value Confirmed as Requested Value with Delivery from Warehouse

Organization

Forwarding Agent Batch

Customer

Material

Order

Sales Area

Unit Time

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Service-Level Orders

0SD_C13 Service-Level Orders

Service Level Orders

Organization

Order

Customer

Sales Area

Returns Delivered early/late according to req. delivery date Delivered early/late according to schedule line date Delivered early acc. req. delivery date Delivered early acc. schedule line date Delivered late acc. req. delivery date Delivered late acc. schedule line date More Delivered than Requested Less Delivered than Requested Value delivered early/ late acc. req. delivery date Value of early/late deliveries acc. schedule line date Value delivered early acc. req. delivery date Value of early deliveries acc. schedule line date Value of late deliveries acc. req. delivery date Value of late deliveries acc. schedule line date Value Delivered more Than Requested Less then Requested Delivery Value Delivery Within 24 Hours

Unit

Time

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Backorders

0SD_C14 Backorders

Organization Backorders
Backorders Backorders in One Day Backorders Within 7 Days Backorders Within 30 Days Backorders: More Than 30 D Open Quantity between Req. Open Quantity between Schedule Open Value between Req. De Open Value between Schedule

Forwarding Agent

Sales Area

Customer

Unit Time

Material

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Pricing Procedures and Subtotal Key Figures

Six subtotal key figures included by default SAP Best Practice Leverage subtotal key figures to align with Finance/Controlling Suggested Retail Value Gross Sales Subtotal fields Product-Related Discounts should include components to Customer-Related Allowances get from Gross to Returns Net Sales Freight and Handling Accruals Net Sales

See SAP Note 155012 in order to add additional subtotal fields

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Pricing Procedures and Subtotal Key Figures (cont.)

Six subtotal key figures included by default Provides ability to compare SAP Best Practice sales values with Suggested Retail Value external/syndicated Point of Sale (POS) data Gross Sales Product-Related Discounts By default, Subtotal 1 represents Gross Sales, Customer-Related Allowances however it includes Returns Returns Discounts, Allowances, and Freight and Handling Returns are typically negative so Net Sales is calculated by Net Sales
adding the key figures Net Sales is included in the standard DataSources as an independent field and not a subtotal value
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Slowly Changing Dimensions

Dynamic/Current View vs. Historical View Navigational Attributes Provides attribute of characteristic at current point in time (Dynamic View) Material Group Historic View Dimension Characteristics Material Type Dynamic View Provides characteristic at Product Hierarchy Historic and transaction point in time
Dynamic View

Time-Dependent Attributes Provides ability to report on attributes at any point in time Very flexible, however also has significant performance impacts
>> Denotes InfoObject as Navigational Attribute

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Currency Conversion

Default currency for DataSources is typically Document Currency SAP Best Practices scenarios often apply conversion through routines in Update Rules Alternate methods of currency conversion include: Conversion at Query Run-Time Conversion in Transformation or Update Rules (3.x) Using Translation Types Using User Defined Routines Custom ABAP in DataSources SAP Enhancement RSAP001 Function Modules
EXIT_SAPLRSAP_001 READ_EXCHANGE_RATE BAPI_EXCHANGERATE_GETDETAIL

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Currency Conversion Using Translation Types

Transaction RSCUR Define Exchange Rate Type Preconfigured Types From Variable From InfoObject Define Source and Target Currencies Fixed From Variable From InfoObject Define Appropriate Time Reference Fixed Variable
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SAP Best Practices for Business Intelligence

Sales Analysis Scenario Purchasing Analysis Scenario Inventory Analysis Scenario Financial Accounting Analysis Scenario

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Purchasing Analysis Scenario

The Scenario Documentation provides a highlevel summary of the applicable queries and the end-user procedural steps for query execution The Scenario Installation identifies the building blocks for implementing the specific scenario
Purchasing Group Purchasing Data Vendor Evaluation

Basic Configuration Purchasing Analytics General Settings for BI Integration BI Connectivity

BI Connectivity and General Settings for BI Integration are the base building blocks that are leveraged throughout all SAP Best Practices scenarios

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Purchasing Analysis Transaction DataSources

Materials Management
Purchasing
2LIS_02_CGR 2LIS_02_HDR 2LIS_02_ITM 2LIS_02_S013 2LIS_02_SCL 2LIS_02_SCN 2LIS_02_SGR Delivery Confirmations Purchasing Header Purchasing Line Item Vendor Evaluation Purchasing Schedule Line Schedule Line Confirmation Schedule Line Delivery

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MM Purchasing/Inventory Analysis SAP ERP Tables

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Purchasing Data Analysis Data Flow

Lots of queries, but no use of DSOs or MultiProviders Only subset of available DataSources leveraged

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Purchasing Group Analysis and Vendor Evaluation Data Flow

Limited # of queries No use of DSOs or MultiProviders Only subset of available DataSources leveraged

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Purchasing InfoCubes

0PUR_C01 Purchasing Data 0PUR_C02 Vendor Evaluation 0PUR_C04 Purchasing Groups

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Purchasing Data

0PUR_C01 Purchasing Data

# of deliveries Delivery Date Variance 1-5 Delivery Qty variance 1-5 Invoice amount: Returns Weighted total delivery time Effective order value of returns Value of goods received Goods receipt value Invoice Receipt Qty Invoice Amount Actual goods receipt Qty Goods receipt Qty of returns Goods receipt Qty in base unit GR value: Returns Invoiced amount Invoice receipt Returns Qty IR Qty: Returns IR value: Returns Invoice receipt Qty Effective PO value Target delivery Qty Order Qty (returns) # of contract items # of sched agrmt schedule lines # of PO schedule lines # of PO items Order Qty # of quotation items # of request for quotation items # of scheduling agreement items Total delivery time in days

Purchasing Organization Plant

Purchasing Data

Purchasing Info Record Purchasing Info Record Category Version/ Value Type Contracts

Material

Material Group

Process Characteristics Country

Vendor

Indicator

Time

Unit

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Vendor Evaluation

0PUR_C02 Vendor Evaluation

Purchasing Info Record Vendor Evaluation Plant
Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score Score 1: 2: 1: 2: 1: 2: 1: 2: 1: 2: 1: 2: 1: 2: 1: 2: on-time delivery performance on-time delivery performance quality audit quality audit quantity reliability quantity reliability shipping notification shipping notification shipping instructions shipping instructions quality of service provision quality of service provision service timeliness service timeliness shipping notification variance shipping notification variance

Purchasing Organization

Purchasing Info Record Category

Material

Version/ Value Type

Vendor

Indicator

Time

Unit

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Purchasing Groups

0PUR_C04 Purchasing Groups

Version Purchasing Organization Purchasing Groups
Contracts Contract items Deliveries Scheduling Agreements Invoiced Amount Purchase Orders Quotation Requests Purchase Order Value PO Schedule Lines PO Items Quotation Items Request for Quotation Scheduling Agreements

Value Type

Purchasing Group

Cancellation

Vendor

Unit

Time

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SAP Best Practices for Business Intelligence

Sales Analysis Scenario Purchasing Analysis Scenario Inventory Analysis Scenario Financial Accounting Analysis Scenario

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Inventory Analysis Scenario

The Scenario Documentation provides a highlevel summary of the applicable queries and the end-user procedural steps for query execution The Scenario Installation identifies the building blocks for implementing the specific scenario
Material Movements Slow Moving Items

General Settings for BI Integration BI Connectivity

BI Connectivity and General Settings for BI Integration are the base building blocks that are leveraged throughout all SAP Best Practices scenarios

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Inventory Analysis Transaction DataSources

Materials Management Inventory Management 2LIS_03_BF Goods Movement 2LIS_03_BX Stock Initialization 2LIS_03_UM Revaluation

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Inventory Analysis SAP ERP Activation and Setup

LBWE Activate Extract Structures BF11 Set BW Application Active SBIW Determine Industry Sector Delete Contents of Setup Tables Post Stocks Replicate Data Sources Activate Business Content *

* May

have been previously completed

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Inventory Analysis Data Flow

Unlike the majority of other scenarios, Inventory Analysis leverages noncumulative key figures Requires different kind of compression

How To Handle Inventory Management Scenarios in BW www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f83be790-02010010-4fb0-98bd7c01e328

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SAP Best Practices for Business Intelligence

Sales Analysis Scenario Purchasing Analysis Scenario Inventory Analysis Scenario Financial Accounting Analysis Scenario

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Financial Accounting Analysis Scenario

The Scenario Documentation provides a highlevel summary of the applicable queries and the end-user procedural steps for query execution The Scenario Installation identifies the building blocks for implementing the specific scenario
AR Analysis Asset Analysis AP Analysis GL Analysis

Basic Configuration Financial Accounting Analytics General Settings for BI Integration BI Connectivity

BI Connectivity and General Settings for BI Integration are the base building blocks that are leveraged throughout all SAP Best Practices scenarios

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Accounts Receivable (A/R) Transaction DataSources

Financial Accounting Customers

0FI_AR_4 0FI_AR_5 0FI_AR_6 Customers: Line Items with Delta Extraction Customers Payment History Customer Sales Figures

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FI Accounts Receivable Tables

BVOR (Intercompany posting procedures) Intercompany No (BVORG) Company Code (BUKRS) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Document No (BELNR) PAYR (Payment transfer medium file) Paying Company (ZBUKR) House Bank (HBKID) Account (HKTID) Payment Method (ZLSCH) Check No (CHECKT) VBLNR BSIP (Index for vendor validation of double documents) Company Code (BUKRS) Vendor (LIFNR) Currency (WAERS) Document Date (BLDAT) Reference Doc (WRBTR) Amount (WRBTR) Document No (BELNR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Line Items (BUZEI)

Duplicate Invoices

0FI_AR_4
BSAD (Accounting: Secondary index for customers (cleared items)) Company Code (BUKRS) Customer (KUNNR) Special G/L Trans (UMSKS) Special G/L Ind (UMSKZ) Clearing Date (AUGDT) Clearing Doc (AUGBL) Allocation No (ZUONR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Document No (BELNR) Line Items (BUZEI)

BKPF (Accounting document header) Company Code (BUKRS) Document No (BELNR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) All FI documents

BSIK (Accounting: Secondary index for vendors) Company Code (BUKRS) Vendor (LIFNR) Special G/L Trans (UMSKS) Special G/L Ind (UMSKZ) Clearing Date (AUGDT) Clearing Doc (AUGBL) Allocation No (ZUONR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Document No (BELNR) Line Items (BUZEI)

Closed items

Open Items

text

BSEG (Accounting document segment) Company Code (BUKRS) Document No (BELNR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Line Item (BUZEI)

Open Items BSID (Accounting: Secondary index for customers) Company Code (BUKRS) Customer (KUNNR) Special G/L Trans (UMSKS) Special G/L Ind (UMSKZ) Clearing Date (AUGDT) Clearing Doc (AUGBL) Allocation No (ZUONR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Document No (BELNR) Line Items (BUZEI)

Closed items

Open Items

Closed items

BSAK (Accounting: Secondary index for vendors (cleared items)) Company Code (BUKRS) Vendor (LIFNR) Special G/L Trans (UMSKS) Special G/L Ind (UMSKZ) Clearing Date (AUGDT) Clearing Doc (AUGBL) Allocation No (ZUONR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Document No (BELNR) Line Items (BUZEI)

BSIS Company Code (BUKRS) G/L Account (HKONT) Clearing Date (AUGDT) Clearing Doc (AUGBL) Allocation No (ZUONR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Document No (BELNR) Line Items (BUZEI)

BSAS (Accounting: Secondary index for G/L accounts (cleared items)) Company Code (BUKRS) G/L Account (HKONT) Clearing Date (AUGDT) Clearing Doc (AUGBL) Allocation No (ZUONR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Document No (BELNR) Line Items (BUZEI)

KNC1 (Customer master (trans figures)) Customer (KUNNR) Company Code (BUKRS) Fiscal Year (GJAHR)

LFC1 (Vendor master (transaction figures)) Vendor (LIFNR) Company Code (BUKRS) Fiscal Year (GJAHR)

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Accounts Receivable Data Flow

Recent SAP NetWeaver BI content updates have replaced older DataSources and added DSOs

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Accounts Receivable DSOs and InfoCubes

DataStore Objects 0FIAR_O03 Accounts Receivable Line Item 0FIAR_O06 Accounts Receivable Transaction Data InfoCubes 0FIAR_C03 Accounts Receivable Line Item 0FIAR_C05 Accounts Receivable Payment History 0FIAR_C02 Accounts Receivable Transaction Data

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Accounts Receivable Line Item

0FIAR_C03 Accounts Receivable Line Item

Company Code G/L Account
Amount in Local Currency with +/- Signs Amount eligible for cash discount in doc currency Cash discount amount in local currency Foreign currency amount with signs (+/-) Cash discount amount in document currency Credit amount in foreign currency Credit amount in local currency Debit amount in foreign currency Debit amount in local currency Net period used Interest Calculation Numerator Days 1 (Agreed) Interest calculation numerator days 2 (Agreed) Interest Calculation Numerator Net (Agreed) Interest Calculation Numerator Days 1 (Realized) Interest Calculation Numerator Days 2 (Realized) Interest Calculation Numerator Net (Realized)

A/R Line Item

Customer

Due Dates Document Data Time

Dunning Data

Payment Data

Unit

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Accounts Receivable Payment History

0FIAR_C05 Accounts Receivable Payment History

Currency Type

Company Code A/R Payment History

Payment Volume w/Cash Discount Payment Volume w/o Cash Discount Average Arrears for Payment w/Cash Discount Average Arrears for Payment w/o Cash Discount Number of Incoming Payments in the Period

Time

Customer

Unit

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Accounts Receivable Transaction Data

0FIAR_C02 Accounts Receivable Transaction Data

Currency Type Company Code

A/R Transaction Data

Sales for the Period Total Debit Postings Cumulative Balance Total credit postings

Time

Customer

Unit

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Accounts Receivable Queries

0FIAR_C03 A/R Line Item Days Overdue Analysis Due Date for Net Payment Analysis (Credit Management) Overdue Analysis (Credit Management) Analysis of Due Date for Net Payment (Business Partner) Due Date for Net Payment Analysis Overdue Analysis (Business Partner) Terms Offered Customers: Overview Customers: Overview (Credit Management)

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Accounts Receivable Queries (cont.)

0FIAR_C05 A/R Payment History Customers: Payment History (Credit Management) Customers: Payment History Time Series: 12 Periods into Past Customers: Arrears for Payment w/o Cash Discnt (Credit Mgt) 0FIAR_C02 A/R Transaction Data Customers: DSO Analysis, Timeline (Credit Management) Time Series: 12 Periods into Past Customers: DSO Analysis for a Period (Credit Management) Customers: DSO Analysis, current Period Customers: DSO Analysis for a Period (Credit Management)

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Accounts Receivable Historical Activity

Standard InfoCube captures current open A/R plus all cleared A/R After month-end, the Analysis Process Designer (RSANWB) can be used to capture historical Open A/R so that it can be analyzed over periods of time

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Accounts Payable (A/P) Transaction DataSources

Financial Accounting Vendors

0FI_AP_4 0FI_AP_6 Vendors: Line Items with Delta Extraction Vendor Sales Figures via Delta Extraction

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FI Accounts Payable Tables

BVOR (Intercompany posting procedures) Intercompany No (BVORG) Company Code (BUKRS) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Document No (BELNR) PAYR (Payment transfer medium file) Paying Company (ZBUKR) House Bank (HBKID) Account (HKTID) Payment Method (ZLSCH) Check No (CHECKT) Duplicate Invoices VBLNR BSAD (Accounting: Secondary index for customers (cleared items)) Company Code (BUKRS) Customer (KUNNR) Special G/L Trans (UMSKS) Special G/L Ind (UMSKZ) Clearing Date (AUGDT) Clearing Doc (AUGBL) Allocation No (ZUONR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Document No (BELNR) Line Items (BUZEI) BSIP (Index for vendor validation of double documents) Company Code (BUKRS) Vendor (LIFNR) Currency (WAERS) Document Date (BLDAT) Reference Doc (WRBTR) Amount (WRBTR) Document No (BELNR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Line Items (BUZEI)

0FI_AP_4
BKPF (Accounting document header) Company Code (BUKRS) Document No (BELNR) Closed items Fiscal Year (GJAHR)
All FI docume nts

BSIK (Accounting: Secondary index for vendors) Company Code (BUKRS) Vendor (LIFNR) Special G/L Trans (UMSKS) Special G/L Ind (UMSKZ) Clearing Date (AUGDT) Clearing Doc (AUGBL) Allocation No (ZUONR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Document No (BELNR) Line Items (BUZEI)

Open Items

BSID (Accounting: Secondary index for customers) Company Code (BUKRS) Customer (KUNNR) Special G/L Trans (UMSKS) Special G/L Ind (UMSKZ) Clearing Date (AUGDT) Clearing Doc (AUGBL) Allocation No (ZUONR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Document No (BELNR) Line Items (BUZEI)

Open Items

BSEG (Accounting document segment) Company Code (BUKRS) Document No (BELNR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Line Item (BUZEI)

text BSAK (Accounting: Secondary index for vendors (cleared items)) Company Code (BUKRS) Vendor (LIFNR) Special G/L Trans (UMSKS) Special G/L Ind (UMSKZ) Clearing Date (AUGDT) Clearing Doc (AUGBL) Allocation No (ZUONR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Document No (BELNR) Line Items (BUZEI)

Closed items

Open Items

Closed items

BSIS Company Code (BUKRS) G/L Account (HKONT) Clearing Date (AUGDT) Clearing Doc (AUGBL) Allocation No (ZUONR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Document No (BELNR) Line Items (BUZEI)

BSAS (Accounting: Secondary index for G/L accounts (cleared items)) Company Code (BUKRS) G/L Account (HKONT) Clearing Date (AUGDT) Clearing Doc (AUGBL) Allocation No (ZUONR) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Document No (BELNR) Line Items (BUZEI)

KNC1 (Customer master (trans figures)) Customer (KUNNR) Company Code (BUKRS) Fiscal Year (GJAHR)

LFC1 (Vendor master (transaction figures)) Vendor (LIFNR) Company Code (BUKRS) Fiscal Year (GJAHR)

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Accounts Payable Data Flow

Like A/R, recent business content updates have added DSOs, however the A/P scenario solution has much less in terms of pre-built queries

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Accounts Payable InfoCubes and Queries

InfoCubes 0FIAP_C03 Accounts Payable Line Items 0FIAP_C02 Accounts Payable Transaction Data Queries 0FIAP_C02_Q0001 Vendors Overview

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Accounts Payable Line Items

0FIAP_C03 Accounts Payable Line Items

Company Code A/P Line Item Vendor
Amount in Local Currency with +/- Signs Amount eligible for cash discount in document currency Cash discount amount in local currency Foreign currency amount with signs (+/-) Cash discount amount in document currency Credit amount in foreign currency Credit amount in local currency Debit amount in foreign currency Debit amount in local currency

G/L Account

Due Dates Document Data Time

Dunning Data

Payment Data

Unit

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Accounts Payable Transaction Data

0FIAP_C02 Accounts Payable Transaction Data InfoCubes

Currency Type Company Code

A/P Transaction Data

Sales for the Period Total Debit Postings Cumulative Balance Total credit postings

Time

Customer

Unit

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What Well Cover

Order-to-Cash (OTC) and Requisition-to-Pay (RTP) process overview SAP Best Practices for Business Intelligence Leveraging master data views and conforming dimensions Aligning SAP and non-SAP data Wrap-up

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Leveraging Customer Master Views

0CUSTOMER 0CUST_SALES 0CUST_COMPC

Basic View

Consistent across all sales areas Example: Name, Address Sales- and shipping-specific information by sales area Example: Price Group, Price List, Shipping Condition Financial information per company Example: Reconciliation Accounting, Payment Terms

Sales Area View

Company Code View

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Customer Master SAP ERP Relationship

SAP NetWeaver BI InfoObject

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Leveraging Material Master Views

0MATERIAL Basic Data 0MAT_SALES Sales Area Data 0MAT_PLANT Purchasing/Inventory Data Basic View

Consistent across all sales areas Example: Material Group, Material Type, Product Hierarchy Sales and shipping specific information Example: Material Group 15, Product Hierarchy Financial information Example: Controlling Area, Profit Center, Purchasing Group
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Sales Area View

Plant View

Material Master ERP

BI InfoObject Relationship

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Material Master Classification View

Primarily used when searching for materials Characteristic values entered into the classes for each material can be searched to identify materials with like attributes Very powerful functionality but requires significant effort to identify and create characteristics and classes and enter the corresponding values

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Conforming Dimensions in EDW Framework

Organization
0COMP_CODE 0SALESORG 0DISTR_CHAN 0DIVISION 0BUS_AREA 0CO_AREA 0C_CTR_AREA

Customer
0CUSTOMER 0CUST_SALES 0CUST_COMPC 0SOLD_TO 0SHIP_TO 0BILL_TO 0PAYER

Time
0CALDAY 0CALWEEK 0CALMONTH 0CALQUARTER 0CALYEAR 0FISCPER 0FISCPER3 0FISCYEAR 0FISCVARNT

Product
0MATERIAL 0MAT_SALES 0MAT_PLANT

Business Reason
0DOC_TYPE 0DEL_TYPE 0BILL_TYPE 0ORD_REASON Etc

Date

All other dates not in time dimension Syndicated calendar (4-4-5) InfoCube DBMS partitioning (a.k.a., Physical partitioning) must be administered using a characteristic of the Time dimension and 83 only using a characteristic of the Time dimension

What Well Cover

Order-to-Cash (OTC) and Requisition-to-Pay (RTP) process overview SAP Best Practices for Business Intelligence Leveraging master data views and conforming dimensions Aligning SAP and non-SAP data Wrap-up

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Aligning SAP and Non-SAP Data

There are many ways to integrate non-SAP data into an SAP NetWeaver BI environment DB Connect UD Connect Flat File XML BAPI DB Connect typically provides better performance than UD Connect, however it requires a Windows-based application server in order to connect to Microsoft SQL Server UD Connect offers the flexibility to connect to a wide array of sources including relational data sources, OLE DB for OLAP data sources, and XMLA-capable data providers

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Top 10 Recommendations Within EDW Framework

Activate the full spectrum of InfoObject (IO) DataSources from the beginning to gain understanding of available master data Conform dimensions across InfoCubes Align characteristics prior to loading into SAP NetWeaver BI Consistently leverage DSOs Create distinct DSOs and InfoCubes for non-SAP data Leverage both logical and physical partitioning to enhance loading and query performance Always leverage MultiProviders to provide a consolidated view of homogeneous and heterogeneous InfoProviders

* EDW Enterprise Data Warehouse

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Top 10 Recommendations Within EDW Framework (cont.)

Include a Counter InfoObject in all line item DSOs and InfoCubes Include Suggested Retail Value in sales key figures so that its easier to compare amounts with consumption data Leverage a custom Date dimension to account for dates not included in Time dimension and maintain a custom Date characteristic InfoObject to handle special calendars

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What Well Cover

Order-to-Cash (OTC) and Requisition-to-Pay (RTP) process overview SAP Best Practices for Business Intelligence Leveraging master data views and conforming dimensions Aligning SAP and non-SAP data Wrap-up

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Resources

SAP Best Practices for Business Intelligence v2.7 http://help.sap.com/bp_biv270/index.htm SAP Library http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/ http://help.sap.com/bp/initial/ NetWeaver Tab SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (Download or Order DVD) SAP NetWeaver BI content www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-informationmanagementww.sd n.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-informationmanagement?rid=/webcon tent/uuid/9076f97a-50e1-2a10-fc8c-b5c97310c9d5

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7 Key Points to Take Home

There are a wide range of opportunities to leverage SAP NetWeaver BI to enhance your reporting and analytical capabilities SAP Best Practices for Business Intelligence is an excellent starting point, but not necessarily a production-ready solution Activation of SAP Best Practices scenarios and standard business content in sandbox or a development environment does not mean that it has to move to production Implement DataStore Objects consistently and at the line item level to provide an effective data staging layer

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7 Key Points to Take Home (cont.)

Leverage master data views to conform dimensions across subject areas Understand implications of modeling InfoObjects as characteristics of dimensions vs. navigational attributes Leverage pricing procedure subtotal key figures to provide a breakdown from gross to net sales and to ensure alignment with Finance and Controlling (FI/CO)

Your Turn!

How to contact me: Don Welker DWelker@ClarkstonConsulting.com

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