Joining Actual and Forecast Data

Hi All,
I have two cubes one for actual and one for forecast data. In the actual cube data comes at 0MATERIAL, 0CUSTOMER, 0DIVISION, 0FISCPER level for for key figure 0AMOUNT (Actual Revenue). In the Forecast Cube the data comes at ZMATERIAL, ZCUSTOMER, ZDIVISION, ZFISCPER for the key figure ZAMOUNT (Forecasted Revenue).
How can i merge the two providers where in one single row i can show both the actual
and the forecasted amount for the same material, customer, division and fiscal period.
Thanks
Rashmi.

Create a multiprovider consisting of your actual and forecast cubes. Within the multiprovider, include the desired info objects (e.g. 0MATERIAL, ZDIVISION, etc.). Within the multiprovider 'Identification' function, be sure to map the applicable info object(s) from each cube to the multiprovider info object.
For multiprovider 0MATERIAL: map Actual 0MATERIAL and Forecast ZMATERIAL.
For multiprovider ZDIVISION: map Actual 0DIVISION and Forecast ZDIVISION
You then build your query using info objects within multiprovider.

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Hi BI Gurus,
I have a sales multiprovider(zsd_mc01) which contains the Actual data and forecast data.
Actual data is coming from my sales cube(0sd_c03) and Forecast data is coming from the Forecast cube,Integrated Planning (Zsd_for).
Now I have a keyfigure Actual quantity in Actual cube and forecast quntity in forcast cube.
If I create a query actual/forecast quantity on multiprovider I need to populate the actual and forecast data in a single row in the report.
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If the user enters april 2007,
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Please Suggest any solution on this...I will appriciate and rewarded
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Hi Irwin,
I was not around for a few days, hence, delay in writing this to you.
I am going to give to some kind of a pseudo code here. You might need to take help from an ABAPer to close the open ends here (Please excuse me here incase you yourself have an expertise in ABAP, I am just assuming otherwise).
Going back to my earlier response to your question, I am considering two variables:
 ZC_ACTV: For Actuals
 ZC_FORV: For forecasts
You would need to create them as Customer-Exit kind of variables. They should be able to hold dates.
I am assuming that you already have a User Entry variable for entering month on the selection screen. I'll call it ZP_MON (Please substitute the actual name).
Now, the code in the include ZXRSRU01, within the CASE-ENDCASE statement, would look something like this.
* Some data declaration in the beginning, if already not there.
 DATA: l_s_range TYPE rsr_s_rangesid.
 DATA: loc_var_range LIKE rrrangeexit.
* For ZC_ACTV
 WHEN 'ZC_ACTV'. " Variable name
 DATA : v_year(4) TYPE n ,
 v_mon(6) TYPE n , "This is assumed to be in format YYYYMM
 v_amon(6) TYPE n ,
 v_fday LIKE sy-datum ,
 v_lday LIKE sy-datum .
 IF i_step = 2.
 LOOP AT i_t_var_range INTO loc_var_range WHERE vnam = 'ZP_MON'.
 CLEAR l_s_range.
 v_mon = loc_var_range-low.
 v_year = v_mon+0(4).
 CONCATENATE v_year '0101' INTO v_fday. "This will create 1st Jan for entered year
 ADD 1 to v_mon.
 CONCATENATE v_mon '01' INTO v_lday.
 v_lday = v_lday - 1. " This will create last day of the entered month
 l_s_range-low = v_fday .
 l_s_range-sign = 'I' .
 l_s_range-opt = 'EQ' .
 l_s_range-high = v_lday .
 APPEND l_s_range TO e_t_range.
 EXIT.
 ENDLOOP.
 ENDIF.
* For ZC_FORV
 WHEN 'ZC_FORV'. " Variable name
 DATA : v_year(4) TYPE n ,
 v_mon(6) TYPE n , "This is assumed to be in format YYYYMM
 v_amon(6) TYPE n ,
 v_fday LIKE sy-datum ,
 v_lday LIKE sy-datum .
 IF i_step = 2.
 LOOP AT i_t_var_range INTO loc_var_range WHERE vnam = 'ZP_MON'.
 CLEAR l_s_range.
 v_mon = loc_var_range-low.
 v_year = v_mon+0(4).
 CONCATENATE v_year '1231' INTO v_lday. "This will create 31 Dec for entered year
 ADD 1 to v_mon.
 CONCATENATE v_mon '01' INTO v_fday. " This will create last day of the entered month
 l_s_range-low = v_fday .
 l_s_range-sign = 'I' .
 l_s_range-opt = 'EQ' .
 l_s_range-high = v_lday .
 APPEND l_s_range TO e_t_range.
 EXIT.
 ENDLOOP.
 ENDIF.
Once again, if the granularity of your cube is monthly, then this logic would change accordingly.
This should help. Feedback is awaited.
Best regards,
Sanyam

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Hi,
you pasted just part of your query, e.g. is declaration of @ParamTable missing. Without complete query, it is difficult to see, what you are trying to do.
Could you please provide complete query?
Barbara
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hope this will solve your problem.
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2011.04                 2011.05             200
2011.04                 2011.06             200
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2011.04                 2011.09      200
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2011.04                 2011.11      200
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2011.05                   2011.06      300
2011.05                   2011.07      300
2011.05                   2011.08      300
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This is a tricky one (but I guess it will be easy for you clever guys out there), so my apologies for the heading.
Thanks for reading.
I need to build a report in BEx (BW3.5) that does the following:
I will get actual values and forecast values for a year, grouped per period.
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Hi Rudolph,
No need to write any code for this one.
Have done couple of forecast reports using following logic.
Hope historical data getting from R/3 & Forecast values from APO.
these are seperate 2 keyfigures.
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