DRM Alternate Hierarchy Best Practice

What procedures and best practices are suggested for implementing Alternate Hierarchies for DRM reporting purposes?
Thank You.

In two ways you can set up alternate hierarchy in DRM
1) Across the hierarchies but within same version (Linked Nodes)
2) Within the hierarchy (Shared Nodes)
Insert and AddInsert actions in DRM will let you to create shared hierarchies either within Hierarchy or across hierarchies.
If you are creating shared hierarchies across the hierarchies you don't see suffixes such as ":Shared-001" at the end of node but if you are using Insert within the hierarchy then you will suffixes, to have second one implemented first you need turn on one system preferences "SharedNodeMaitainanceEnabled".

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Message no. KE691
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The definition of the product hierarchy has changed (structure PRODHS). The hierarchy field generated in CO-PA, PAPH1 cannot be adapted to the new definition, because it is already being used in structures or tables.
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The field PAPH1 does not appear in the list of fields that can be selected.
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