Business Consolidation - Flexible Upload

Hi Gurus,
In order to transfer reported financial data from files created with the RFBILA00 program (like EC-CS), using Financial Statement Version u201CCONSu201D, with item u201C8u201D for Net Result (in LiabEquity), and with item u201C9u201D for PL Result (in Income Statement), the issue is that this items 8 and 9 are no cover with the system in SEM-BCS.
Please we need help in order to generate data in SEM-BCS in items 8 (Net Result y LiabEquity) and item 9 (PL Result in Income Statement).
Thanks

It is necessary with BCS to create a one-sided reclassification for posting level 00 to accomplish the net income to retained earnings adjustment for a balanced balance sheet each period end. You should find details regarding this at SAP's website for BCS as well as in this forum.

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BUSINESS CONSOLIDATION SYSTEM

Hi Gurus...
Could you please send any document related to BCS (BUSINESS CONSOLIDATION SYSTEM )

HI. Sudheer
Business Consolidation (SEM-BCS)
The following sections contain the documentation on the BW-based component Business Consolidation.
The documentation on the R/3-based component Business Consolidation is located elsewhere. This documentation can be accessed, for example, by calling up Application Help in your R/3-based Business Consolidation system.
Purpose
You can use the SEM component Business Consolidation (Consolidation) to determine the resources of a group (or a similar enterprise or organizational unit), the claims by others to those resources, and the changes to those resources. Consolidation also provides the means for internal and external enterprise reporting.
You can consolidate on the basis of customer-defined consolidation units. Consolidation units can represent, for example, companies, plants, business areas, profit centers, and cost centers. You can also portray matrix organizations (for example, using a combination of companies and profit centers).
You can standardize the financial data reported by individual consolidation units to adhere to the accounting and valuation standards of the group. You then translate the standardized financial data from the various local currencies into the group currencies. Finally, you can eliminate the effects of group-internal relationships (for example, from interunit trade and services). Thus, you calculate the consolidated financial statements as if the group were a single entity.
You can use the analysis functions of SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM) and those of SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) to analyze and report on your consolidated financial statement data.
Integration
The Consolidation component provides functions to collect master data and individual financial statement data from data files from non-SAP systems as well as SAP systems.
All SEM components are based on BW. These are:
Business Consolidation (SEM-BCS)
Business Planning and Simulation (SEM-BPS)
Corporate Performance Monitor (SEM-CPM)
Stakeholder Relationship Management (SEM-SRM)
Business Information Collection (SEM-BIC)
The data processed by Consolidation is written to the BW system. There you can share the data between Consolidation and the other SEM components. For example, you can:
Collect SEM-BPS planning data for use as reported financial data in consolidation
Use consolidated actual data as the basis for further planning in SEM-BPS.
Features
Versions
You can use versions to execute parallel consolidations with different categories of data (for example, actual data, planning data, forecasting data), using different accounting principles (for example, US GAAP, IAS, German HGB), using different valuations, and/or for simulations.
Hierarchies
You can create hierarchies for almost all characteristics (for example, consolidation units and financial statement items), where some hierarchies have special, consolidation-specific properties.
Consolidation Charts of Accounts
The component enables you to use different charts of accounts for consolidation. For example, this allows you to generate several consolidated financial statements in parallel to accommodate different accounting principles.
Collection and Standardization of Reported Data
You can use online data entry or flexible upload to collect individual financial statement data and other consolidation-relevant data into the consolidation system.
You can post manual entries, for example, to standardize the reported data to meet the accounting and valuation requirements of the group.
Consolidation Tasks
You can automatically execute the following consolidation tasks:
Currency translation (which translates the financial data into the currency of the consolidation group)
Validation
Interunit eliminations (for example, for payables and receivables, revenue and expense, or investment income)
Elimination of interunit profit/loss in inventory
Consolidation of investments
Reclassification
Allocation
Balance carryforward
The automated postings are controlled by the task settings you define once beforehand in Customizing.
Reporting
After performing the consolidation tasks, you can use BW reports to analyze your data. SAP provides pre-defined BW business content (InfoCubes, queries, etc.) for this purpose.
You can use XBRL to create individual or consolidated financial statements.
Execution and Monitoring of the Consolidation Process
You use the consolidation monitor to execute the consolidation tasks and to monitor the entire consolidation process.
Constraints
The automated execution of the elimination of IU profit/loss in transferred assets is presently not available.
The automated execution of consolidation of investments presently only covers the purchase method with the activities first consolidation and subsequent consolidation.
You can use manual posting to perform the consolidation tasks that are not yet automated to meet the statutory requirements for creating consolidated financial statements.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sem320bw/helpdata/en/62/f7e73ac6e7ec28e10000000a114084/frameset.htm

Short Dump - GETWA_NOT_ASSIGNED - Flexible upload of RFD

Hi,
SEM 6.0 / BI 7.0
When i try to do a Flexible upload for a sample RFD, i get the following dump:
Runtime Errors         GETWA_NOT_ASSIGNED
Date and Time          11/25/2008 16:22:01
Short dump has not been completely stored (too big)
Short text
    Field symbol has not yet been assigned.
What happened?
    Error in the ABAP Application Program
    The current ABAP program "CL_UC_TASK_EXECUTION==========CP" had to be
     terminated because it has
    come across a statement that unfortunately cannot be executed.
Error analysis
    You attempted to access an unassigned field symbol
    (data segment 32776).
    This error may occur if
    - You address a typed field symbol before it has been set with
      ASSIGN
    - You address a field symbol that pointed to the line of an
      internal table that was deleted
    - You address a field symbol that was previously reset using
      UNASSIGN or that pointed to a local field that no
      longer exists
    - You address a global function interface, although the
      respective function module is not active - that is, is
      not in the list of active calls. The list of active calls
      can be taken from this short dump.
Trigger Location of Runtime Error
    Program                               CL_UC_TASK_EXECUTION==========CP
    Include                                 CL_UC_TASK_EXECUTION==========CM02V
    Row                                     155
    Module type                          (METHOD)
    Module Name                        COMPARE_OLD_AND_NEW_DOCS
Flexible upload - Delete all / Cumulative
Has anyone encountered this type of dump before?
My Observation
(Data Rows contain the following columns - Item / Company / Trading partner / PV LC)
When i give a trading partner which is not defined in the system, the system is interpreting the header row & data rows. Also, it gives an error message for each row.
But,
When i give a trading partner which is defined in the system, or when i remove the trading partner column in total, it throws the above short dump.
The breakdown category defined in the system are Trading partner & Movement type.
Both, have the breakdown type 1. (optional breakdown, initialized value allowed).
Pls note that after several permutations & combinations - to trace the error, i have removed all the columns & kept the minimum required (Item / Company / Trading partner / PV LC).
Appreciate your comments / inputs.
Thanks!
Kumar

Hi Kumar,
The note refers to FINBASIS 300 release.
In the present system we have, it is FINBASIS 600.
I raised an OSS message.
Anyway, implementation of the note helped me with all releases.
But, first of all, I mentioned another remedy that you may see here:
SPRO: SEM/Business Analytics -> Fin. Basis -> Master Data Framework -> System Settings -> Profile Parameter Setting.
It's about setting parameter for ABAP shared memory on the server. If you do not set this parameter to 200-300 MB, you constantly will have the errors like I mentioned while trying to save master data. Did you read my previous message carefully and look at this hint?
In case of breakdown type 1 - the upload should happen - if we dont specify any values for the breakdown category. Pls confirm.
- Confirmation. The system will accept any value, including null.
Is it true that we cannot load RFD data (with both movement type & trading partner information), in one go? If yes, what is the reason behind it.
- No confirmation. Where is it from? I always do such a load.

External field catalog & Info object catalogs - Role - in Flexible upload

1) What is the role of Info Object catalogs maintained in the Data Basis & the Source Data Basis?
Please be kind enough to mention a scenario u2013 underlining their utility in the consolidation process.
Like u2026.
Are they used for loading master data from source system to the BCS system?
Can they be used in the flexible upload u2013 data collection function?
Are they used for as a source of AFD data?
I came across the below documentation on flexible upload - in an SAP material.
*When uploading from a field catalog, you also have the option of using mapping. In this case, the file structure no longer has to correspond with the structure of the data basis.*
Understood the above 2 points.
*Rather, you can assign a BW InfoObjectCatalog that acts as the data structure description for the file here. You specify this InfoObjectCatalog in Customizing for the data basis.*
2)Does the above statement implies that we need not do any setting in the field catalog tab of the flexible upload? If yes, what do we do?
In the flexible upload u2013 field catalog tab u2013 we define the data structure for the file we upload (correct me if Iu2019m wrong).
If you use an external field catalog, you have to specify how you want to map the data structure for the file to the structure for the data basis.
3)Pls give an example of an external field catalog.
4)Can we use an external field catalog in the upload of RFD?
Many Thanks
Kind Regards,
Kumar

There are two possibilities of using Infoobject catalog in SEM-BCS (it is true for both catalogs, characteristics and key figures):
u2022 In a data basis. The system adds these chars and KFs that are sitting in the defined in the Data Basis catalogs to u201CAdditional Fieldsu201D of each data stream (the tab strip u201CData Stream Fieldsu201D in data basis. If you check some of these fields and generate data basis, these additional infoobjects will be placed into appropriate ODS/DSO objects and you will be able to use them for uploading of some extra information.
Without indicating the Infoobject Catalog for Chars youu2019ll not be able to configure a new functionality of "assets/liabilities" at all.
u2022 In a source data basis.
After including source data basis to your data basis youu2019ll be able to use external infoobjects catalog in a method of the category Flexible Upload. Tick the flag of using the external catalog and choose the SDB. In the mapping tab youu2019ll have a possibility to choose from those chars and KFs that are located in the catalogs.
This might be used for upload of ANY data, RFD, AFD or master data.
The scenarios, I guess, are rather obvious.
Hope this helps.

Flexible Upload of Data for several periods/years

Hey Colleagues,
my client wants me to develop a new functionality to upload data for several periods/years. The function they are using right now and correctly is the flexible upload.
As we have already developed several custom tasks and enhancements/modifications we try to not modificate further SAP standard or to post directly (back-door solution)
But:
It is no problem to start the flexible upload for different selecitons and to provide the values in an excel sheet. But I have problems to avoid a popup for selecting the excel file. It would be no problem if for example Batch-Input would work here, or if we would post directly using standard functionality (posting method with data change) but in this case we try to use the flex upload.
Has anyone experienced a similiar problem? Can we use the flex upload with suppressing the popup to select the file WITHOUT an enhancement?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Yavuz

Hi Yavuz,
Yes this can work for every period in one year - use the multiperiod processing option, available since EHP2 (BCS 6.02).
The multiperiod processing requires you to define the consolidation cycle and start period, so you could define it to start with p1 and include all 12+ periods of the year.
NB the multiperiod processing is initiated by running with selection screen - right click and selec "run for remaining periods of the year"
You can run either a task or a task group for the rest of the consoliation cycle, but data collection with flexible upload MUST have the presentation server settings (already mentioned above) or the data collection task will not work.
So you make the configuration settings
You then save your multi-period file on the presentatin server
You then go to data collection (flexible upload) task in p1 and "run for remaining periods"

Flexible Upload of master data including attributes - error at new attrib.

Dear all,
trying to use the flexible upload for loading master data with attributes the system aborts if there new values have to be created for attributes, e.g. New Business Unit has region FR, Region FR actually does not exist as key. Therefore at first the value for Region has to be created within BCS and after that the load of the new Business Unit will be successful.
Does anybody know if it possible or which seeting within the upload customizing must be chosen that the new attribut value automatically could be created during upload of the main characteristic?
Kind regards
Dieter

Hello Dieter,
your first way was the right way - befor you can upload Business Units with attribut FR you have to create the attribute in BCS.
It is not possible to create master data for two different characteristics in one flexible upload method.
In the definition of the upload method you have to choose which characteristic you try to upload...
best regards
Thomas

Flexible upload log showns no values

Hi All,
We are uploading transaction data through Flexible upload method.
After update data log shows no values under Local Currency and Quantity.
Please let me know, why system behaving like this.
How to
Regards
SVNR

Hi Dan,
Thanks for your immediate reply.
Key figures for LC and quantity are already mapped and included in the flexible upload method and Quatity was used in the breakdown categories.
But still it is not showing any values in the log for respective two consolidation units. Rest of all cons unit disclose the values.

Impact of only balances in local currency in business consolidation

Hi,
We are doing business consolidation based on classical GL
and extracting data for consolidation from GLT3 table.
In some cases we are not getting the transaction currency
amount for certain GL Accounts in GLT3, it is giving the same amount as Local Currency.
Is it a impact of tick only balances in local currency, if so
how do we go ahead correcting it.
Thanks in Advance
Phutane

Hi,
Remove the Tick mark 'Only Balance in Local Currency' in the master record.
This should solve the issue.
Regards,
Satish Pasumarthi

Business consolidation

I am creating leading ledger for company based in Dubai which is the subsidairy of indian holding company. Fiscal year of both companies is different. Will there be any issue in consolidation of these two companies in business consolidation in SAP.?
Is possible to consolidate leading ledgers of two companies whose fiscal years are not identical in SAP business consolidation?

hi,
maybe you can use transaction OC50 - Gain/Loss from asset retirement
hope that helps
A.

Change master data of business consolidation directly in the quality system

Dear All,
I need to change master data of business consolidation directly in the quality system.
Anyone an idea?
Kind regards,
Marilia

Welcome to SDN.
There are SAP Notes 933024, 804057 and 592239 that provide a means of opening UCWB only for master data objects.
Another possible work around is to make the updates in BW and use the synchronization programs UGMDSYNC and UGMDSY20. However for FS Items and Cons Groups all of the master data elements such as breakdown category and period of first consolidation are not available for entry in BW so for these characteristics the maintenance must still be completed in UCWB.
Edited by: Dan Sullivan on Jan 4, 2011 10:59 PM

Business Catalyst Help | Upload files to the site

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://helpx.adobe.com/business-catalyst/sbo/upload-files-using-file-manager.html

Hi Kevin,
I assume that you have created your site through Muse. In this case, by default, File Manager is disabled to prevent the risk of accidental content overwrites since there is no roundtrip between Muse and the online editor.
If you wish to enable the File Manager, edit your account settings (by clicking on your name on the top right corner and selecting My Details) and check the Enable online content editing box.
This will enable several options into your menu, including the file manager.
Cristinel

Upload FS Items master using flexible upload-SEM-BCS

I want to upload FS Items master using flexible upload in SEM BCS. I was wondering if i could have a sample upload format of the file. Kindly help.
Ramanathan
[email protected]

Hi Ramanathan and welcome to SDN!
Everything depends on your settings in a flexible upload method.
You may use a comment character (like an asterisk) to show fields names and choose a fields delimiter (say, ';').
In this case you may have a file for upload something like the following.
These are fields in a header
Field1 Field2 Field3 Field4 etc.
Field1Val;Field2Val;Field3Val;Field4Val
These are fields in rows
Field5 Field6 Field7 Field8 etc.
Field8Val;Field8Val;Field8Val;Field8Val
Field8Val;Field8Val;Field8Val;Field8Val
Field8Val;Field8Val;Field8Val;Field8Val
Best regards,
Eugene

SEM-Business Consolidation starter question

Hi there,
It`s my first attempt in Business Consolidation, hence I`m trying to first create a Data Basis
I am referring to http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sem40bw/helpdata/en/67/f7e73ac6e7ec28e10000000a114084/frameset.htm and it states that I need to first create the following :-
SEM_BCS_TOTALS
SEM_BCS_DOCS
SEM_BCS_INVDTA
SEM_BCS_SUPDTA
I have checked in my Business Content and it`s not there. Please advice if I need to custom create these InfoCube/Virtual InfoCube ?
Next question would be assignment of the followings :- What exactly do I input ?
InfoProvider for MultiCube reporting
InfoObject Catalog for Characteristics
InfoObject Catalog for Key Figure
Appreciate if someone can guide me through my first steps since I it`s my first time doing Business Consolidation.

Hi,
 I created a new Data Basis named Data_Basis_1.
 Selected 0BCS_C11 as Total Records Stream
 Hit 'Yes', when prompted for "Do you really want to generate the data basis?"
 Selected SEM_BCS_CHA01 as InfoObject Catalog for Characteristic and SEM_BCS_KYF01 as InfoObject Catalog for Key Figure
 and it worked magically!
 So, the next logical thing to do would be to assign the Source to the Data Basis created so far.
 According to the link below, the following needs to be done ...
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sem40bw/helpdata/en/12/f35e32342c4bbd9b36bd18c0371c47/content.htm
 1. Create a source data basis. Enter system A as the RFC Destination. Then under InfoProvider enter your InfoCube with the planning data.
 2. Assign this new source data basis to your data basis.
 3. Create a Load from Data Stream method and select your system A as the RFC Destination and your InfoCube with the planning data as the InfoProvider. If the structure of the planning data does not match the corresponding fields of your data model, define suitable mapping rules.
 4. Execute the new method.
 My scenario here is SEM and BW both resides in the same box. There is a logical connection to SAP R/3 to SAP BW defined
 Please advice how do I proceed here onwards ?
 Appreciate your help, mate!

Business Consolidation query

Hi experts,
I am BI consultant working on SEM-BCS .We have a requirement to get GL account level information in the consolidated queries.Is it a good option to add the GL account as well in BCS layout as I feel this would defy the entire idea of consolidation ? Since consolidation is across company codes it has only the group account and not the G/L accnt. Can you please suggest ?

Dear EXPERTS,
I am fresher in SEM-BCS. I have got the requirement for Business Consolidation.
Can ANy one help me out
1) For any Config Guide
2) Any Site link
3) any Training Manual.
Utterly in need of it
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I/U profit and loss in Inventory : Flexible upload of Inventory Data

Hello people! gurus!!
In Data Collection, I have defined flexible upload to Inventory Data as Data Type;
then I tried to connect this in Method, however in the options belong to Data Stream, u201Ctotal recordsu201D and u201Cdocumentsu201D are my only options.
Should it appear options to relate as Inventory Data and Supplier ?
Thanks in advance
Ismael Lozano

Ooph, Ismael,
DO the search BEFORE you post the question!
Many of such questions were answered a long time ago.
For example:
Re: Missing Elimination of Interunit Profit/Loss Functions
or
Re: SEM BCS - Interunit Profit/Loss in Transferred Asset / Inventory

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