Info Req on Inventory Management

Hi Experts,
I am working on BI 7.0. Our client is planning to implement the Inventory Management in SAP and they will use the BI as the reporting tool. So we need to feed the Inventory management data into BI.
So I want to work on that point and need some information like what are the Data sources we will use for Inv Mgmt and how can we load the data from SAP R/3. Is there any special steps that we need to take into account while we work on this area.
If any one of u can give some inputs in this regard and any helpful material reg the same will be helpfull to me.
Thanks.

Hi,
Check below links, you will get an idea about Inventory Management.
http://help.sap.com/bp_biv270/documentation/HowToInventoryNW.pdf
http://sapbwneelam.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-to-handle-inventory-management.html
Hope this help you.
Regards,
Ravindra.

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Anybody please let me know the use of 'No Marker Update' while compressing the request in an infocube of inventory management.
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Hello Sunil,
Three datasources that are mainly involved :2lis_03_BX, BF & UM.
BX is used to load the opening balance. This request (for opening balance using BX) when compressed uses the marker update( i.e the No marker update is NOT checked).
This will update the marker and set a reference points that will be used to determine the stock figures.
BF is used to load the actual material documents. First load using BF when compressed need not update the marker( i.e the No marker update is Checked!!). Here the historic documents(for which the opening balance is already loaded) are loaded but the marker need not be updated.
Then onwards the delta loads the marker needs to be updated( i.e the No marker update is NOT checked).
Follow the same strategy for UM as in case for BF!!
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https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f83be790-0201-0010-4fb0-98bd7c01e328
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We are currently using Inventory Management with non-cumulative key figures but we get very high performance problems due to so big number of lines in info cube.
We are analyzing the other scenario with snapshot and I am asking if it would be very realistic to use it to satisfy our requirement: to be able to get inventory management at day level for about 2 000 000 combinations article-site and about 100 000 stock movement lines per day (we are retailer!).
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Being a non-cumulative KF, total stock is automatically takes care of that.
Try putting all the restrictions which you have included for total receipts and total issues, for eg, restrict Total Stock with the movement types used in Receipts as well as Issues.
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Dear Experts,
I have a task in hand to implement Inventory Management in SAP BW 3.5. Now, this is the first time that we will be implementing anything related to Logistics and I havenu2019t done so earlier in my support projects. I have got 10 hrs of downtime.
I need to fetch the report for both Trading as of now.
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All Other Issues Qty,
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Book Inv Qty,
Physical Inv Count.
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My questions are:
1) What are the fields from above that can be pulled from standard BI Content Reports (if possible, please specify which report)? OR fields (or combination of fields) that are already in the cube?
2) For every above field, customer has given standard movement types.
For ex: for Receipts against PO = Mov Types 101,105,123,162 (Doc Type IN/IM)
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But when brought in BI, all routines are based on processing keys (BW Transaction key). Where can I find mapping of each processing key to the corresponding movement type?
If you know which processing key can be used for above fields, please let me know.
3) What are the other fields that need to be considered in routines. If possible please specify field wise.
4) Should I extend the 0IC_C03 with these new custome KFs creating a new zcube or should I add only required fields in zcube.
If I follow the latter, will there be any impact on standard BF/UM runs as in If I load till PSA and from PSA I follow my customized update rules terminating into my customized cube?
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BJ,
My questions are:
1) What are the fields from above that can be pulled from standard BI Content Reports (if possible, please specify which report)? OR fields (or combination of fields) that are already in the cube?
~ You will get fields from the Cube only.
2) For every above field, customer has given standard movement types.
For ex: for Receipts against PO = Mov Types 101,105,123,162 (Doc Type IN/IM)
for Receipt against STO = Mov Types 351, 352 (Doc Type UB)
~ Check this Table in Source system for BW Keys : TMCLVBW
But when brought in BI, all routines are based on processing keys (BW Transaction key). Where can I find mapping of each processing key to the corresponding movement type?
If you know which processing key can be used for above fields, please let me know.
Check this table
3) What are the other fields that need to be considered in routines. If possible please specify field wise.
That depends upon your requirement in the report or Check the standard Dcoument for Inv management in SDN search.
you will get lot of help.
4) Should I extend the 0IC_C03 with these new custome KFs creating a new zcube or should I add only required fields in zcube.
If I follow the latter, will there be any impact on standard BF/UM runs as in If I load till PSA and from PSA I follow my customized update rules terminating into my customized cube?
~Best Practice and even SAP Recommends Make a ZCUBE and then enhance or customize to fullfill your rek.
No impact follow IM steps for BW.
Make sure you keep these things in Mind:
There are 3 SAP delivered transactional data sources for stock management.
2LIS_03_BX : Always needed to carry the initialization of the stocks.
2LIS_03_BF : Initialize this in source if you need historical data else an empty init can be done for this to load only future delta records. If the Source system is new then no need to do an initialization.
2LIS_03_UM : Only needed if revaluations are carried out in Source. This data source is helpful if adjustment in material prices is done time to time otherwise it wonu2019t extract any data.
2. Check list for source system. Needs to be carried out before initialization of the above 3 data sources .
A.   Table TBE11 : Maintain Entry u2018NDIu2019 with text u2018New Dimension Integrationu2019 and activate the flag(Note 315880)
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PROCS u2013 01010001
INTERFACE - SAMPLE_PROCESS_01010001
TEXT1 u2013 NDI Exits Active
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PROCS u2013 01010001
APPLK - NDI
FUNCT u2013 NDI_SET_EXISTS_ACTIVE
D.   Tcode u2013   MCB_
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E.    Tcode u2013 BF11
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3. After running the setup data, check the data for the fields BWVORG, BWAPPLNM, MENGE. If no data available in these fields then some setting mentioned in the above checklist are missing in R/3. Correct the issue and rerun the setup data.
4. Data staging with DSO for BX extractor is not allowed. Data should directly load from extractor to Cube only once. Choose the extraction mode as u2018Initial Non-cumulative for Non-cumulative valuesu2019 in the DTP.
5. DSO is possible for BF. If you are creating a standard DSO then choose the fields MJAHR,BWCOUNTER,MBLNR,ZEILE as key fields. Some of these fields wonu2019t be available in the standard data source but the data source can be enhanced using LO Cockpit (LBWE) to add these fields. In addition to these other fields depending upon the DSO structure is also possible.
Note 417703 gives more info on this.
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A.      Load the BX data. Compress the request with stock marker(uncheck the marker option).
B.      Load the BF and UM init data. Compress the loads without the stock maker(Check the marker option).
C.      The future delta loads from BF and UM should be compressed with Stock marker(uncheck the marker option).
8. If in future the cube needs to be deleted due to some issues then the load process should also be carried out as above. (only init of BF and UM should be loaded first and then the deltas should be processed)
9. To check the data consistency of a Non cumulative cube the standard program SAP_REFPOINT_COMPLETE can be used. To check the compression status of the cube the table RSDCUBE can be refered. Before the compression of BX request, the u2018REFUPDATEu2019 field should be blank and after the compression the value should become u2018Xu2019. Check Note 643687 for more info.
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does anyone has experience or knowledge with the new datasources 0MM_IM_BX, 0MM_IM_BF, 0MM_IM_UM, 0MM_IM_STOCK for inventory Management?
What are the differences to datasources 2LIS_03_BX, 2LIS_03_BF, 2LIS_03_UM?
How works the initialization of this datasources?
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So what we find provided from the activation of Business Content looks like this:
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Dear experts,
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In this forum there are some opened threads about this issue, but none has been resolved! Many hints are about the "How to Inventory Management..." - some other say: "You can use DSO's!" - others say: "Don't use DSOs!". So: Where is the truth? Is there anybody who can provide a really praticable way to implement the above mentioned data flow?
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Yes indeed there is.
Using DSOs in inventory flow is absolutely possible. Here's what you need to know and do:
1 - Firstly don't be apprehensive about it. Knowledge is power! We know that inventory uses ABR delta update methodology and that is supported by DSOs so no doubt abt it.
2 - Secondly Inventory is special because of non-cumulative and several rule group at cube level for BX and BF.
3 - Now as you want to use a DSO and I am presuming that this will be used for staging purpose, use a write optimized DSO as the first layer. While mapping from DS to this DSO, keep one to one mapping from field to Info-objects.
4- Keep in mind that from Infosource to 0IC_C03 there would be multiple rule groups present in transformations.
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6- you can also use standard DSO and create rule groups and logic at DSO level and then do one to one from DSO to Cube.
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hi Niten,
check oss note 581778-ODS capability of extractors from Inventory Management
Symptom
Data is not updated into the ODS when you load certain data records of the 2LIS_03_BF extractor.
Other terms
ODS, 2LIS_03_BF, 2LIS_03_UM, 2LIS_03_BX, 2LIS_40_S278, 0STORNO, ROCANCEL, RODMUPDMOD, 0RECORDMODE, Inventory Management, 0IC_C03,
Application 03, Logistics Extraction Cockpit, LBIW
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ODS key: Doc.
Movement data:
Document   Item    Document year   Movement type     Qty     ROCANCEL
4711       1       2002             101              +100
4712       1       2002              102              -100     X
ODS contents:
Document   Item.   Document year   Movement type    Quantity
4711       1       2002             101                 +100
4712       1       2002                                   -100
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BW technology note no. 747037 provides more information.
Solution
You have two options to evaluate cancellations or operations which contain reversal movement types and ROCANCEL = "X" in the ODS:
1. Implement a start routine
Insert the following code into the start routine of your update:
ODS key: Material doc.|Item number|Calendar year
BEGIN******************************
LOOP AT DATA_PACKAGE.
if DATA_PACKAGE-recordmode eq 'X'.
    DATA_PACKAGE-recordmode = ''.
    modify DATA_PACKAGE.
endif.
endloop.
END********************************
2. Change the transfer rules
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Other special features when updating the extractors of the inventory management into ODS objects:
1. 2LIS_03_BF and 2LIS_03_UM
a) ODS capability
For more information, see notes 322303, 323811 and 385703.
b) Key creation
For 2LIS_03_BF, see note 417703.
The following keys are available for 2LIS_03_UM:
1. MCMSEG-BUKRS
2. MCMSEG-BELNR
3. MCMSEG-GJAHR
4. MCMSEG-BUZEI
Field no. 4 is not delivered as standard in the extract structure, but it can be added using the Logistics extract structures Customizing Cockpit.
Field no. 1 may not be included in the relevant organizational structure.
2. 2LIS_03_BX (up to and including 3.0B 2LIS_40_S278)
The dynamic stock calculation from stocks (2LIS_03_BX) and movements (2LIS_03_BF) is only possible with (non-cumulative) InfoCubes.
Using ODS technology is only useful in this context for:
- an Enterprise DataWarehouse layer
- the realization of a snapshot scenario:
See the How to paper for this topic at:
-> http://service.sap.com/bw
-> left navigation area: SAP BW InfoIndex
-> info index: N ("Non-cumulatives") ->
"How to... handle inventory management scenarios in SAP BW 3.x" (pdf)
Use note 773823 to update the 2LIS_03_BX InfoSource into an ODS.
Note also that you cannot update any key figures into an ODS object (see notes 752492 and 782314).

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