Business Rules

in
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

SAP Product Support

March 20,2008

Types of Business Rules

Account

Transformation (CalcAccount) Performs a straight summarization of

a group of accounts

Carry

Forward (CopyOpening) Summarizes a group of activity accounts

and copies the value into an opening balance account

Currency

Translation (FX) Performs standard currency translation.

Intercompany

Eliminations (AutoElim) Performs intercompany eliminations.

US

Eliminations (Elim) Controls where in an Entity dimension member the

results of eliminations are stored.

Validations

values.

(Valid) Allows user to check integrity and correctness of entered

Business Rules (also known as table based

logic)
Encrypted
Written

SQL Stored procedures that are shipped with the product

by product development and cannot be modified by users

Parameters

are defined in BPC Administration and then executed through

scripting logic

Parameters

are application specific but procedures are in all applications

When are Business Rules Used

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Uses

Business
Rules

Reporting Values

Yes

Creating Records

Yes

Moving Data

Yes

Calculations on base
records

Yes

Calculations on
parent levels

Yes

How and when is logic executed

Business

Rules

Executed

by using the *RUN_STORED_PROCEDURE script logic command in a script

logic file.
Business

rule is executed when the script file is executed

Pros and Cons

Business Rules
Pros
Code

is centrally stored and parameters are maintained by the application administrator

Execution
Typically

can be setup to run on-demand or automatically

fastest execution because it works in the relational database using SQL Server memory

Cons
If

product development hasnt written it, it cannot be done with BR

Stored
Rules

procedures cannot be customized to fit unique client needs.

tables are not well documented and can be difficult to understand

Who typically writes logic and when

Business

Rules

Implementation
Typically

consultants, application administrators

during implementation but can be modified anytime business processes change.

Business Rules Syntax

Business rules troubleshooting

Most likely issue is with the parameters in the table.

Make sure the name of the rule there calling is correct.

You might see cases where logic directly calls the stored procedure
(*RUN_STORED_PROCEDURE) directly rather than using the wrapper
function. The SP name can change so the best practice is to always call
the wrapper which stays the same.

Because the procedures are encrypted, there isnt anything you can do to
check for code errors.