Actual Goods Issue date and Planned Goods Issue date

Question

Dear All
we are loading the january,08 sales  invoice from the legacy system to SAP system through BDC program.
for this at the time of PGI we are using Actual GI date as month of January, 08 and keeping planned GI date as the system date and at the time of creating sales order, delivery, we are not changing the material available date, loading date, delivery date, at the item level and system taking automatically based on the current date
when doing PGI system accepting and creating PGI document and billing also creating based on this delivery.
But dose it give problem in Inventory managements and FI in future, then what would be the right procedure to uploading the back dated invoices in the system.
Please give me solution for this issue, or what we are doing is the right procedure.
Thanks In advance

Answer 1

For those who might come across this note, the design issue was solved by incorporating Rule Groups.
Problem:
Need to have 2 different Date references for 0calday, based on the key figures. For example for Sales key figure date it would reference to Actual GI Date. But, for Intake key figure I needed the date reference to be Planned GI date.
Solution-- applied to the transfer rules of the desired cube:
1. In the starndard rule group delete the transfer rule for the appropriate key figures. in this case (sales key figure)
2. In the same rule group map all time characteristics from the cube to Planned GI date from DSO
3. Create a new rule group in the transfer rule between the DSO and the Info Cube
4. In the new rule group, create a new rule for the appropriate key figure i.e. sales
5. In the new rule group, Map the date/week/month/fiscal period to Actual GI date
6. save/activate
This solution eliminates the need for changing the data model, which makes everything almost transparent to the report users.
Hope this helps someone.
Edited by: Babak Shafiei on Dec 12, 2008 5:23 PM
Edited by: Babak Shafiei on Dec 12, 2008 5:24 PM