Business Process Simulation, including Financial Reporting

I currently use BPI-I in my Systems class. I am looking for another simulation which still employs Business Pricess, but includes a more robust financial reporting part. Is anyone aware of an existing simulation. Thank you.
Susie Wright

Hello Dirk,
I am not sure if there is a data source for the financial reporting structure.
You can check help center document : Overview of Data Sources in SAP Business By Design
for the list of all available data sources.
Regards,
Harshal

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Business Process Simulation

Hello,
we want to know how can we accomplish the Business Process Simulation with BPA Suite. What componentes do we need to install?
thanx.
Francesco

Hello Francesco,
Take at look at the "When will the entire BPA Suite be available" message. This will give you a suggestion how to start with the simulation until the complete suite is available.
Dirk

Financial Reporting Studio 11.1.2.1 admin documentation?

I'm very troubled with the way how Oracle sets up its website and naming. Sorry for venting a bit
But it's absolutely frustrating when people stumble upon this section
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/fusion-middleware/overview/index.html
and don't know where to look for a specific application.
Anyway, my question is, where is Financial Reporting Studio 11.1.2.1 admin guide located? which section?
I tried to google but no result.
Thanks for reading.

@Jeo123:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/performance-management/documentation/index.html
The first link you listed doesn't include Financial Reporting Studio. That's exactly my problem. Most clients I work with have Essbase, Planning, EPMA, and FRS. These are the 4 basic components of Hyperion system.
@RaulRodriguez:
The reporting piece is under reporting and analysis:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/nav/portal_4.htm
Thanks.....I actually found that on Google. But unfortunately, I'm on 11.1.2.1. And Oracle's site doesn't have a section set up for 11.1.2.1 like they do for 11.1.2.2. And the problem I have actually goes back to using "Usage Tracking" and setting up through BI+ server that you suggested last time. Since you said that certain method can only be done that way on 11.1.2.1, so I was looking for that doc. Otherwise, I could've used 11.1.2.2 instead.
Bummer.

Business Process and Sales process

Hi Gurus,
Will somebody explain me the Difference between " Business Process and Sales Process"
Thanks & Regards
Srikanth

Hi Srikant,
Sales process is related to only sales and Distribution which means from Sales to Billing, But in business process it includes other business aspects like accounting principles, etc, i.e it includes all processes of all the modules.
For SD point of view in interview your answer should be all SD scenarios.
reward if it helps.
Regards
Bidhu Bhusan Samantaray

Module Business Processes (request for detailed website links)

Hi,
I'd like to learn more about the different Business processes inside all of the SAP modules. For instance, I'd like to know what Business Processes are included in each SAP Module, what they do, how they are used, what their specific objectives/outlines/uses are and etc.
Please provide online links and documentation that can help me learn more about what each module is and does (in terms of the module specific business processes.)
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

Hello John,
Take a look at this.
https://websmp202.sap-ag.de/bestpractices
Detailed information on all SAP Best Practices scenarios (Scenario Overview, Business Process Procedures, Installation Guides etc.) can be found in the SAP Help Portal (http://help.sap.com/)
Cheers !

Can I submit one process to run many Financial Reports at once?

I've been asked by one of our HFM customers, about ways to submit 50 FR reports by one command. Best of the process can also be schedulled.
There is a function called “Batch Reports for Scheduling”. This function can run and refresh a report (built with Financial Reporting) and create a pdf file into a specified target folder.
The problem with it, is that each report is schedule by a seperate “Batch Reports for Scheduling” function. Since the customer has lots of reports (more than 50), they need to submit them one by one, specify for each one it's parameters values (Year and Period) so it's a time consuming process.
The customer would like to find an option that will simplify the process by doing all refresh at the same time.
We are looking for a command line that we could use by a batch (by using .bat for example). We need those commands:
1. Connect to HFM
2. Launch “Batched Reports for Scheduling” with right parameter
3. Disconnect to HFM
I'd appreciate any idea that would help.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Yoram

Hi Yoram
There is a command line utility that you can use to run Financial Reporting batches. It is called ScheduleBatch.cmd and can be found in the 'bin' directory under BIPlus (I can't be more specific as it depends which version of FR you are running).
Take a look at the help attached in the section Scheduler Command Line Interface under the Administrative Tasks for Financial Reporting
[http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12825_01/epm.111/fr_user/frameset.htm?launch.html]
These notes are labelled as v11 but this section equally applies to v9.3.1
I have not used this with HFM but I have uses a windows .bat file to launch multiple FR batches using this feature (against Essbase) and deliver reports to users out of working hours so that they are in their email inbox when they arrive at work.
Hope this helps
Stuart Game
www.analitica.co.uk

Regarding Financial report in Business object

Dear All,
https://websmp230.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/bobj_download/main.htm
We have download the zip file for Financial report from the above link. When we open this report in Crystal report we can not find the query written for that report. I want to edit that query can anybody tell me how to edit this query. Is there any other link or query to calculate Trial balance,P&L statement and Balance sheet plz send me.
Thanks and Regards
Harish Patil

Harish,
Sorry, but it seems that it is not the right place for your post. This forum is for SAP Business One SDK, not for Business Object product. You may post your question
[https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/forums|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/forums]
=>Business Object
Regards, Yatsea

Expediter Business Process/Report

Hi;
I am looking for an expediter business process or report to help expedite for late PO's not ME91F, any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks
Ibou

if you dont want to do ME91F, then just use ME2L.
here use the selection parameter WE101 for open goods receipts.
further enter todays date in the selection field delivery date, keep the cursor in that field and press F2, then select the symbol for smaller than.
Execute the selection and you will get all overdue receipts.

How to Include order creation business process in the project.

Hi,
I have created Implementation Project in Project Administration. Now I want to Include order creation business process in the project.
Can anybody guide me how to incude order creation business process in the project. & which T-codes I need to use.
Many Thanks
Praveen K

Hi Praveen,
It is S User ID and password you can get the sam in ur company .
The SAP material can't be shared in that way & pls follow the rules
https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/HOME/RulesofEngagement
Do not ask to send you an email.
The question you ask and the solution to it is often also interesting for other users of the community. If you ask somebody to send you the answer per email, you deprive others of also learning to know the answer. Therefore any requests for sending material or answers to an email address will be modified by the forum moderators.
In addition, do not use an email address as a user name. These will be removed as well. Email addresses can be added to a Business Card or wiki profile. Their usage in the forums is inappropriate unless we are referring to [email protected]
Edited by: Prakhar Saxena on Oct 15, 2009 12:38 PM

Process chain with ABAP reports included

Hello !
I need help regardin an issue.
I have a process chain with the processes:
1) Start
2) Process type ABAP program -> report that has a wait instruction
3) Process type ABAP program -> report that has a system message , based on a first variant of the report
4) Process type ABAP program -> report that has a wait instruction
5) Process type ABAP program -> report that has a system message , based on a second variant of the report
6) Process type ABAP program -> report that has a wait instruction
7) Process type ABAP program -> report that has a system message , based on a third variant of the report
report that has a system message : has 3 variants
The reports work each individual, but in the chain , when I execute, I must see some system messages and there is nothing
I assigned for the processes the right reports, including the variants for the processes 3, 5, 7.
Do you have some clue? I can't imagine why they don't work in this process chain.
Thank you.

In RSPC transaction -
create your process chain
To include ABAP program --- expand General Services --- Select ABAP program -
drag and drop it in right panel
Create process variant -
provide program name and program variant(if exists)

AC010 Business Processes in Financial Accounting

Do any one have "AC010 Business Processes in Financial Accounting Material" I am badly in need of it.
please send to [email protected]
regards
Satish
Message was edited by:
satish kumar

Daer Satish,
there is a great FREE training on AC010 on the SAP Learning HUB - "Discovery Preview: Business Processes in Financial Accounting". Go for it and let me know if it helped you :-)
Have great day
Tomas

How to include look and feel features in the Hyperion Financial Reports

Hi,
Can anybody suggest me how I can enhance the look and feel features of Hyperion Financial Reports, any references
2) Will traffic lighting functionality is present in Hyperion Reports (FR), if not present how can achieve this functionality
in FR ?
3) We have user look and feel features like pinboard in the web analyis reports, but are there any certailn features
in Hyperion Reports ??

You can use Conditional Formatting to produce stoplights in Report Studio.
If you know of specific things that you want to see, try reading the manual. I cannot give you details of every type of formatting you may want to see from such a vague post.

Business process-BUSES

Sirs, My project is the related to the Manufacturing, industrie BUSES , Under this one what we can say as the BUSINESS PROCESS,(how to the intial stage comes to work in, and how to the finished completed structure) please what have ur valuble suggestion..... help

Dear Ameer,
ASAP Methodology
Forward Media has adopted ASAP (Accelerated SAP) as its methodology of choice for SAP implementations, upgrades and module additions.
Our in-depth knowledge of ASAP allows us to customise and streamline ASAP to suit widely varying project requirements. For example - while ASAP was originally conceived as an implementation methodology, Forward Media has found ways to apply its strengths to the smaller tasks of SAP upgrades and new module additions. Innovations such as these have become part of standard and offically endorsed ASAP methodology.
Our involvement with the ASAP methodology began in 1996, when Forward Media Director Nadia Ward worked extensively with SAP America on the creation of the original ASAP methodology. Nadia led the technical component of the first commercial trial of ASAP in an implementation for CFS in New York - in the process contributing several operational templates to the ASAP toolkit.
ASAP Phases
The ASAP methodology structures the project lifecycle into five phases which run sequentially from project start to project completion. These standard ASAP phases are:
1. Project Preparation
2. Business Blueprint
3. Realisation
4. Final Preparation
5. Go-Live and Support
Concurrently with these ASAP phases, we also run a series of continuous processes which cover the types of activities which, by their nature, transcend individual phase boundaries (eg: Quality Assurance) or which require activity throughout the project lifecycle (eg: Knowledge Transfer).
These continuous processes identified as necessary for most SAP projects:
1. Quality Assurance
2. Data Migration
3. Basis
4. Knowledge Transfer
5. Cutover Planning
6. Project Accelerators
Together, the ASAP phases and our continuous processes define the broad outline of our approach for SAP projects.
Project Management Toolkit
Forward Media has a series of Project Management tools in addition to those sourced from ASAP that we make available to our clients. These include templates such as our:
 Project Plan Template (for SAP Implementations and Upgrades)
 Data Conversion Strategy
 Cutover Plan
 ABAP specifications
 Test Scripts
 Client Landscape
 Change Management Strategy
 Month End Schedule
 Issues Log
 Phase 1: Project Preparation
 Phase 2: Business Blueprint
 Phase 3: Realization
 Phase 4: Final Preparation
 Phase 5: Go Live & Support
Phase 1: Project Preparation
In this phase of the ASAP Roadmap, decision-makers define clear project objectives and an efficient decision-making process. Here Project Organization and roles are defined and implementation scope is finalized.
System landscape and Technical Requirement
 Infrastructure need (Hardware/interfaces): Available- QuickSizing Service: to be accessed via SAPNet
 System Landscape
 High level strategies for client
 Archiving strategy
Issues Database:
Issues must be resolved before phase completion ot before beginning of the next phase. The issues can be
 Unanticipated tasks
 Normal tasks that can not be completed
 External factors that need to be dealt with.
Issues database allows the project team to enter, track and report on project issues.
Phase 2: Business Blueprint
In this phase scope of the R/3 implementation is defined & Business Blueprint is created. Business Blueprint is a detailed documentation of companys requirements.
Various tools are used in this phase.
 AcceleratedSAP Implementation Assistant
 Question & Answer Database (Q&Adb)
 Business Process Master List (BPML)
 R/3 Structure Modeler
 Business Navigator and external modeling tools
Project Management:
Activities nagement:in this work package are:
 Conducting Status meeting for project team
 Conducting steering committee meetings
 General project management
 Addressing organizational issues relating to organizational change management.
Other activities include:
 Project Team Training
 Developing the System Environment
 Defining Organizational Structure
 Defining the Business processes
R/3 reference model can be used for
 Comparing the standard functionality with your companies own organizational requirements
 Creating documentation for the conceptual design
 Optimizing business processes
 Training the project team and users
 Writing user documentation
Question and Answer Database can be used to determine
 The Baseline Scope
 Cycle Plan
 Integration test Plan
Phase 3: Realization
The purpose of Phase 3 is to configure the R/3 system. The configuration is carries out in two steps; baseline configuration & Final configuration.
Business Process Master List (BPML) is created in phase 2 as a report from Q&A database. It is used to identify, plan, schedule and monitor the configuration and testing of all R/3 scenarios and processes within the scope of an implementation. BPML is a representation of the R/3 business and transactions that are contained within the scope of the project. BPML is feeds all business information to all subsequent worksheets.
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It is the main tool for setting the parameters to configure or Customize R/3 during the realization phase. IMG reflect the chronological order in which the customizing activities are carried out.
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 Defining authorizations in the R/3 system
 Defining workflows
 Creating user documentation
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 Developing system test plans
 Defining service level commitment
 Establishing system administration functions
 Setting up Quality Assurance environment
 Defining the design of the productive system
 Defining system management procedures for the productive system
 Setting up the productive environment
At the end of this phase, Project Manager must check the status of deliverables for completeness and accuracy. This internal quality check should be carried out in addition to an external, independent third party Quality Audit.
Preparation for end-user training needs to be gone through and approved at and of this phase.
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The purpose of this phase is to complete the final preparation of the R/3 system for going live. This includes testing, user training, system management and cutover activities, to finalize your readiness to go live.
In this phase the R/3 system is handed over to individual departments for productive operation. This includes preparation of end-user documentation and training the end-users. The technical environment is installed on production system & is tested. Project managers prepare plans for going live, transfer of legacy data and support at early stages.
End-user training is a critical activity for success of the project. InfoDB may be used to plan for the User Training activities. Computer Center Management System (CCMS) must be set at this time. Simulation of productive operation system & testing the same is of great important.
The test plan contains the following activities
 Testing conversion procedures and programs.
 Testing interface programs
 Conducting volume & stress testing
 Conducting final user acceptance testing
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The Computer Aided Test Tool (CATT) can be used to automate test sequences for key business processes.
Phase 4 also provides for the testing of the disaster recovery plan for the productive environment. Disaster downtimes are verified and details on de-escalation.
Phase 5: Go Live & Support
This phase is concerned with supporting and optimizing the operative R/3 system.
Following activities are carried out
 Production support facilities are defined.
 Validation of business processes and their configuration.
 Follow-up training for users
 Signoffs etc.
During phase 5, the first EarlyWatch session should be held, where experts from SAP analyze the systems technical infrastructure. The aim is to ensure the system functions as smooth as possible.
Version upgrades should be planned whenever found necessary. AcceleratedSAP contains a continuous roadmap, with standard activities necessary after implementation. The tasks in that structure provide solutions for all known types of continuous change: Business changes, technology changes or changes in user community.
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Create unit cost reports in Hyperion Financial Reporting

Hi,
I have some doubts regarding the creation of "per unit" reports in Hyperion Financial Reporting. In the business model we have:
- different cost and revenue groups (identified by accounts dimension)
- different business channels (identified by business channel dimension)
- units different for each business channel (identified by accounts dimension and by currency dimension)
What would be the most efficient way to easily construct per unit reporting? Reporting should be able to show data as:
(*in principle, the "$ per unit" column is the most important one. The other columns could be hidden without problem)
(**the main challenge is to be able to easily reflect per unit values calculated with different units, depending on the business channel and potentially other dimensions)
More precisely, the questions are:
1. What should be the dimensions structure? Units in separate dimension? Or inside accounts dimension and differentiate with currency dimension?
2. The calculation of per unit amounts should be done within the reporting or should it be precalculated value?
2a. If within reporting - how to technically include this calculations? Show $ and units and then use the formula?
2b. If precalculated - how to solve the problem that the TOTAL per unit values are not the sum of per unit values for each Business channel separately (as each Business channel has its per unit calculated only with the units of this Business channel)? (please take into account that Business channel may not be the only dimension that changes the units to be used in per unit calculation - we can also have different units for different cost centers etc.)
3. How to show $ and units separately, as in the example, if, when limiting a row by Revenue, for example, is making the units value for this row 0? How to overcome this?
Many thanks in advance for your help and best regards,
Pawel

I came up with one concept of how to deal with this problem - let me know what you think. The idea is pictured in the image below:
The answers to the 3 questions using this solution would be:
1. What should be the dimensions structure? Units in separate dimension? Or inside accounts dimension and differentiate with currency dimension?
Units would be a separate account in the "accounts" dimension. But also, units could be differentiated by the "currency" dimension.
2. The calculation of per unit amounts should be done within the reporting or should it be precalculated value?
2a. If within reporting - how to technically include this calculations? Show $ and units and then use the formula?
Withing the reporting, as I have no solution to precalculate per unit values using so many different groups of units - if we want to have different per unit per each business channel or cost center etc. I understand we would need that many different precalculated "per unit" values, which would be a lot...
Regarding 2a, a simple formula would do (box C). However, for rows with auto totals, the formula would need to have priority over the autototals (box D) - how is that done? Is it possible and easy?
3. How to show $ and units separately, as in the example, if, when limiting a row by Revenue, for example, is making the units value for this row 0? How to overcome this?
As we can differenciate units using both accounts and currency dimension, with the accounts placed in rows, the elements selected would always include the units (box A). Then, in the columns, using "currency" you would choose whether to show the cost and revenue accounts ($) or units (box B). Like this you would not get 0 in units, neither you would distort $ amounts.
What is your opinion? Best regards!

Does Financial Reporting Studio need to be uninstalled before patching?

Hi Guys,
Moving forward on my patch plan, I am stuck again, this time with the ambiguity in the documentation. I am trying to apply the Financial Reporting Patch 13997553. While going through the documentation, I found two ambiguous statements. In step2, the doc says that I need to uninstall the FR studio (Doesnt say on which machine I need to uninstall). Later in step9, it says, on FR studio Machines, uninstall the FR studio.
As per my assumption, in step2, I have to uninstall it from the Server and in Step9 I need to unistall it from my local machine. But the document never talked about re-installing the FR studio on server. What am I missing here?
Help appreciated. Thanks!
Here's part of readme which confused me -
APPLYING THE PATCH_
The section includes important information about applying this patch for Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting, Fusion Edition.
To apply this patch:
1. Shut down all services and servlet instances related to the Oracle Hyperion EPM Release 11.1.2.2.00 installation.
2. Uninstall the Financial Reporting Studio by going to Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs, and then uninstall Financial Reporting Studio.*
3. On On the Financial Reporting server machines; Download and unzip the downloaded patch file, <PATCH FILE NAME>.zip, to the <EPM_ORACLE_HOME>/OPatch directory (by default, Oracle/Middleware/EPMSystem11R1/OPatch).
NOTE: <PATCH FILE NAME>.zip is the name that My Oracle Support assigns to this patch. When you download the file, a message indicates the file name.
4. On On the Financial Reporting server machines, from a command line, change the directory to <EPM_ORACLE_HOME>/OPatch.
5. To apply the patch, enter the following command on one line:
Windows:
opatch.bat apply <EPM_ORACLE_HOME>/OPatch/<PATCH DIRECTORY> -oh <EPM_ORACLE_HOME>
-jdk <MIDDLEWARE_HOME>/jdk160_29
NOTE: The default for <EPM_ORACLE_HOME> is C:/Oracle/Middleware/EPMSystem11R1. The default for <MIDDLEWARE_HOME> is C:/Oracle/Middleware.
UNIX/Linux:
./opatch apply <EPM_ORACLE_HOME>/OPatch/<PATCH DIRECTORY> -oh <EPM_ORACLE_HOME> -jdk <MIDDLEWARE_HOME>/jdk160_29 -invPtrLoc <EPM_ORACLE_HOME>/oraInst.loc
NOTE: The default for <EPM_ORACLE_HOME> is $HOME/Oracle/Middleware/EPMSystem11R1. The default for <MIDDLEWARE_HOME> is $HOME/Oracle/Middleware.
6. Delete the Financial Reporting precompiled jsp files located at: <ORACLE_HOME>\Middleware\user_projects\domains\EPMSystem\precompiled\hr
7. Restart Oracle Hyperion EPM services and servlets.
8. All users should now clear cached files from their browsers.
“For WebSphere deployments, you must use EPM System Configurator to redeploy the Web application.”
9. On the Financial Reporting Studio machines; Uninstall the Financial Reporting Studio by going to Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs, and then uninstall Financial Reporting Studio.*
10. Connect to the EPM Workspace machine that was patched in Step 3. Download the Financial Reporting Studio installer from the EPM Workspace menu: From the Tools menu, select Install and then select Financial Reporting Studio and then launch the installer. Follow the installation guide to install the Financial Reporting Studio to the location you want.
11. All users should now clear cached files from their browsers.

JohnGoodwin wrote:
Uninstall the FR studio on any machines that it has been installed on, then once patched you can download the latest FR Studio from workspace and then install.
You will find that it is installed by going to the start menu - Oracle - Financial Reporting StudioSo if i got you right,
-I need to uninstall the FR studio from all the machines (including the server).
-Apply the Patch.
-Install FR studio back again
And this whole process has nothing to do with Financial Reporting Web App.
Thanks!

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