Consolidation using BPC

Hi
What are consolidations in ECC.?? What is the purpose of consolidations??
I am completely new to consolidation concept in BPC. How to do consolidations using SAP BPC. Now i have to implement consolidations to my client. BPC is already implemented.
Could anyone throw some light on it.
Regards
AK

Hello,
What are consolidations in ECC.?? What is the purpose of consolidations??
here is the document u need to understand SAP FI consolidation:
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/EN/data/pdf/FIGLCP/FIGLCP.pdf
I am completely new to consolidation concept in BPC. How to do consolidations using SAP BPC. Now i have to
implement consolidations to my client. BPC is already implemented.
Could anyone throw some light on it.
SAP BPC consolidation includes:
- Automated Account Transformation
- Currency translation
- Manual Adjustments (Journals)
- IC matching and eliminations
- Allocations
- Automated accounting for long term investments
- Automated balance carry-forward
- Reporting including P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow
- etc
Hope this info will help u,
Dzmitry

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Dear all
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Hi Mehdi,
Which is best: to have different small RACs with one DB on each, or having a big RAC and put all the DB's into it.
It will be better to have DB for OLTP type application seperate than the DB for DSS type appllication.This way you'll have more control over their performance.
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e.g:
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- Different Startup options (I heard this one for conslidation in an stand alone DB Server with multiple instances. Is it an issue for RAC architecture?)
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I didn't understand what u exactly meant by different startup options.But the startup options will remain same for RAC DB also as far as DB is cocerned.Only the additional task will be the Cluserware components startup and ASM instance (if used).
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- When to have One RAC with multiple instances & when to have multiple RAC with one instance per RAC
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[http://www.oracle.com/pls/db102/portal.portal_db?selected=11]
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Regards,
Sanjeev

Hi Sanjeev,
Consolidation is a financial process. Please refer to some finance related sites to understand the terminology.
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Hi there,
after scanning every message in this forum for "data source" I wonder if there isn't any standard approach from SAP to extract consolidation data from ECC 6.0. I have to say that my customer is not using New g/l so far and therefore the great guide "how to get balances from ECC 6.0 ..." does not fully work for us.
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BPC Gurus,
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