Best Practice for Master Data Reporting

Dear SAP-Experts,
We face a challenge at the moment and we are still trying to find the right approach to it:
Business requirement is to analyze SAP Material-related Master Data with the BEx Analyzer (Master Data Reporting)
Questions they want to answer here are for example:
- How many active Materials/SKUs do we have?
- Which country/Sales Org has adopted certain Materials?
- How many Series do we have?
- How many SKUs below to a specific season
- How many SKUs are in a certain product lifecycle
- etc.
The challenge is, that the Master Data is stored in tables with different keys in the R/3.
The keys in these tables are on various levels (a selection below):
- Material
- Material / Sales Org / Distribution Channel
- Material / Grid Value
- Material / Grid Value / Sales Org / Distribution Channel
- Material / Grid Value / Sales Org / Distribution Channel / Season
- Material / Plant
- Material / Plant / Category
- Material / Sales Org / Category
etc.
So even though the information is available on different detail  levels, the business requirement is to have one query/report that combines all the information. We are currently struggeling a bit on deciding, what would be the best approach for this requirement. Did anyone face such a requirement before - and what would be the best practice. We already tried to find any information online, but it seems Master data reporting is not very well documented. Thanks a lot for your valuable contribution to this discussion.
Best regards
Lukas

Pass a reference to the parent into the modal popup. Then you
can reference anything in the parent scope.
I haven't done this i 2.0 yet so I can't give you code. I'll
post if I do.
Oh, also, you can reference the parent using parentDocument.
So in the popup you could do:
parentDocument.myPublicVariable = "whatever";
Tracy

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