Consolidation Frequency in BCS

I am part of BW based SEM-BCS project and we are running into following problem.
We would like to have Consolidation Frequency 'Quarterly' but load the data from cube monthly. This does not seem like very unusual requirement, but I am unable to find appropriate config.
There is some reference to Period Category in the Periodicity section, but there are no options to associate Period Category with Task or Method.
Any help will be appreciated. We are on version 4.0

You are correct that the inversion task must be executed for each period of the cons frequency.

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