Can 0IC_C03 support dollar values of stock at more granular level?

Question

Cube: 0IC_C03
Query: 0IC_MP04_Q0001
BW: 7.3
Hi All,
The standard query (0IC_MP04_Q0001) allows us to see stock quantities/dollar values at the following level:
Plant --> Material Type --> Material
However, when we add several more characteristics ( to get to this: Plant --> Storage Location --> Stock Type --> Material --> Batch), we can see the quantities at this level, but not the dollar values (they appear as zero at this level and as aggregated values at the undefined (#) level.
Any help on how to show dollar values at this level would be appreciated!
Thank You!

Answer 1

Hi,
there is a sort of standard way of doing this or maybe two actually (I think there is a paper somewhere to do things dynamically during query runtime but not sure where to find this). The one i am usually following does however take some technical skills:
1) create a dso A that holds the price on a material / plant / period level (normally filled with an APD based on stock cube in which the price is calculated by dividing total stock through total value in a fixed uom (for example convert all quantities to KG first so you would have the price per KG). Or maybe you can use the standard price from material master depending on how this is setup in SAP.
2) create a dso B that will hold the stock volume per storage location (also filled with an APD based on stock cube)
3) create a dso will hold the stock value at storage location level. This is filled from dso B and in the routines a custom keyfigure is calculated (stock value @ stloc) by multiplying price (from dso A, in a lookup) with volume from dso B (which is source of transformation).
4) create a cube C to hold this custom keyfigure
5) create a multiprovider on top of regular stocks cube and newly created cube C so you can have a query to show combination of quantity and value called stock value at storage location level.
You can add other characteristics as well to this flow. At some point however it will cost a lot of performance as the new DSO's and cube should be full loaded everyday to have up-to-date data.
Hope the above helps you,
C.