Learn BCS

Hi BCS experts,
I am planning to enhance my skill set with BCS. Please provide me ur useful suggestions how to start learning BCS concepts.
I am looking into the SAP help. I can see there are lot of stuff.
Can anybody tell me what are the important things need to learn at intial stage.
Please send me some useful documents
And also please send me the some impaortant Tcodes in BCS for consolodation workbench , comnsolidation monitor, Tasks etc.....( like BPS0,UPSPM, RSPLAN in BPS etc..)
Thanks
SAPSEM

Hi Ravi,
Thanks for ur reply. I assigned the points.
I have one doubet regarding integration between SEM and BW veriosns.
Which SEM and BW versions are integrated.
for SEM 4.0 whcih BW version we will use either BW 3.5 or BI 7.0 or both
for SEM 6.0 which BW version we will use either BW 3.5 or BI 7.0 or both
Please give me idea on this.
Thanks
SAPSEM

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BCS Documentation

Hi BCS Experts,
I am BW consultant with accounting background and would like to learn BCS.Could you please send me some good BCS documentation except SAP material. I completed the SAP BCS course excercises. I dont have the confidence to start working in BCS yet. Could you please also tell me that whether do we load in BCS Trial balance or Financial statements via flexible upload?
Thanks and regards,
Harry

Hi Harry,
1. The file format completely depends on the flexible upload method settings. As an exampe you can look at the structure of the fields and the file structure here:
/people/sap.user72/blog/2006/07/21/how-to-upload-hierarchy-and-master-data-of-fs-items-in-sap-sem-bcs-40-by-using-flexible-upload-method
For totals upload you just need to add:
- item
- amount in local currency
- amount in transaction currency
- transaction currency
- movement type (optional)
- company
- business partner
maybe some more analytical characteristics.
2. As I wrote before (in another thread), I didn't see any good step-by-step docs related to BCS customizing. There are a couple of files that somehow explain this process (but not very well). So, I may send them to you provided that I have your mail ID.
3. There are some notes related to overview, data basis and master data:
773178 - Overview of consulting notes in SEM
630474 - Consulting note - Data entry in SEM-BCS
638477 - Data basis-Data Streams - characteristics fixed in consArea
676337 - FinBasis - Leading fiscal year variant
682481 - FinBasis - Customizing leading fiscal year variant
727776 - Requirements of SEM-BCS for data model
772743 - Data basis - Notes on the configuration
779307 - Importance of fiscal year variants
831324 - Data basis - Inconsistent data model
883282 - Data basis - Various problems during creation
889795 Dump GETWA_NOT_ASSIGNED in READ_VALUES_FROM_DATA_BASE (SP10)
539647 - Synchronization of hierarchies with BW does not work
578348 - FIN master data - Synchronization local system with BW
689229 - FinBasis - Reports for the manual synchronization
381626 - DataSources of consolidation for transaction data
736226 - SEM-BCS 400 - Activation of the SAP delivery example
859893 - SEM-BCS 60- Activating the SAP delivery example
741004 - SEM-BCS - Activating delivery performance reference example
Best regards,
Eugene

BCS Material

Hi ,
I am fi/co consultant with BW knowledge.I am planning to learn BCS.So please send me any material or guidance sheets on BCS .
It will really help me in upgrading my skills.
please mail to me on
<u> [email protected]</u>
regards
Nirmala

For Customizing...
SEM-BCS
Transaction Codes
SEM BCS T-Codes
For BCS
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/f5/e16f3a53dee246e10000000a11402f/content.htm

Purpose of T code ZBCS_SYNC

Hi,
I am basically working on FICO- but due project specific, SEM-BCS aslo came to my umbrella.
So slowly we are habitate to learn BCS>
I would request the experts ,please suggest me what is the user of ZBCS_SYNC.
Is it synchronizing the master data in between BW and BCS or some thing different.
Realted web link aslo will help me more.
Thanks inadvacne.
NALA

Please go to SE93 and provide the program name behind the transaction. Many times, Z programs are simply copies of standard SAP, but they are specific to your particular implementation. One word of caution, coming from FICO world, you are leaving the standard r3 and moving to a bw system, which in most cases is a separate instance and may require new set of IT skills. In other words, you are no longer OLTP, but you are entering the OLAP world. Good luck.

SEM-BPS-BCS

hi all i am bw cunsultant and now i am coming into SEM bcs-bps can someone help me out how should i start to learn.
if someone has the documnets please send to me
[email protected]
i shall then very thank full for you

Hi Sanjeev,
go to https://websmp103.sap-ag.de/bi -> SAP BW 3.5 -> SAP BW Business Planning and Simulation
Here you can find "HOW TO... Guides - BPS", "SEM-BPS ASAP" and other useful section with many documents...
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/ae9fba90-0201-0010-d490-cbf9a364de95
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/biw/d-f/enhancements%20bw-bps%20formerly%20sem-bps%20in%20sapnetweaver%2004.ppt
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/biw/d-f/frequently%20asked%20questions%20-%20planning%20with%20sap%20netweaver%20bi.faq#q-6
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/5d90209f-0501-0010-59a2-9243ac94a4d7
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/biw/s-u/sap%20bw%20business%20planning%20and%20simulation%20-%20how%20to%20guides%20list.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sem40bw/helpdata/en/05/242537cedf2056e10000009b38f936/frameset.htm
Regards,
R.Ravi

SEM BPS/BCS FOR BW

HI FRIENDS,
I HAVE KNOWLEDGE IN BW, I WOULD LIKE TO LEARN SEM-BPS AND BCS . I HAVE KNOWLEDGE IN SD PP AND MM . FOR SEM-BPS, BEC NEED ANY EXTRA KNOWLEDGE IN ANY OTHER MODULES, CAN I GET ANY SCREEN SHOTS MATERIAL FOR SEM- BPS AND BCS LIKE BOOK IS THER FOR BW STEP BY STEP, CAN I GET ANY BOOK FOR SEM -BPS AND BCS. PLE MAIL ME ASAP.
CAN ANY ONE SEND ME MATERIAL SEM-BPS AND BCS . TO MY ID
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Thanking u
suneel.

Hi Suneel,
If you are very good at BW, then obviously you can go ahead and learn BPS. As SEM is a planning tool within SAP and planning mainly involves financial planning. Its better if you are good at the processes of FI-CO before learning BPS, CPM and BCS.
Regards
Ravi

Learning curve for a non techie-Business Catalyst. Two specific questions.

Hello everyone,
Thanks for reading. I am a non techie who is looking at website development as a secondary skill.ie. having the know how to atleast relay my ideas to web developers and ideally to be able to tweak and in the end able to create my own websites.
In this regard, I feel Business Catalyst is an excellent tool, for people like me which mitiagtes the knowledge of coding to an certain extent. I am currently going through some of the content listed in the forums. Is there a book that provides end to end detailed steps of all the implementation to complete a fully functioning website and how much is the learning curve in this regard?
Also,
Business Catalyst offers all in one features, is it possible to use 3rd party in place of default tools for specific function, say use wordpress for blog and a different email marketing service?
Have a good one.
Thanks
Satish

I personally would tend to prefer wordpress for a small non-commercial website/blog. Its ecosystem of plugins is far more diverse than BCs and you get direct access to the code if you want. BC's blog and forum modules seem somewhat like afterthoughts designed by marketers for marketing, and there's some unevenness to the way they implement what HTML and templates you have access to and what you don't in different context, so to a degree wordpress gives you more fine-grain control over a site.
The transverse of this is that with open source software you don't necessarily have the quality control or guarantee of long-term maintenance that you might with BC. Business Catalyst is far more initially optimized for business (obviously) and its servers can likely experience a higher load and greater uptime than you might get on a typical hosting service with wordpress.
Wordpress is kind of notorious for being hackable, mostly because of its ubiquity, although if you work on it it can be secured to a reasonable degree I think -- I'm not aware of any security issues regarding Business Catalyst, apart from recent issues with the captcha and spam which might have been resolved with Akismet and Recaptcha (both of which you can also get on Wordpress obviously) but personally I don't like having all of my accounts linked with a single Adobe username/password.
But then again, I have to trust that Adobe has their **** together and there isn't some festering zero-day sitting at the heart of all of it because the price you pay for playing in BC's sandbox is just that -- it's their sandbox. They're not releasing the code. If you can't change it with an existing module setting or can't hack around with with javascript then complaining until they fix it's your only option.
In short, I think it depends on your needs. Neither is entirely the wrong answer, and both have their issues. I've been just as frustrated with some of the rendering bugs and limitations in BC as I have with the way Wordpress (IMHO) overdoes abstraction while simultaneously sticking with its horrendous code-and-content mixing template style. If you have inventory and need to push stock and don't really care about mucking around with server-side code or anything really complex than BC will probably work for you, and of course there are always sites like bcgurus and these forums to help out with edge cases.

SEM-BCS configuration

Hi Gurus,
I am in the process of implementing SEM-BCS consolidation based on BW. I don't know where to start and how to start. Anu body can help me to do the necessary configurations

Hi Latha,
It is good that you are starting to learn SEM-BCS. To do that you need to have the knowledge of Business Process. Since you are FI certified understanding of Business Process should not be a problem.
Add to this, it would be better to have knowledge also in BW. As SEM-BCS is an application the storage of Data will be in BW and also the reporting.
SAP provides enough documentation, at http://help.sap.com but initially you might not understand everthing at one shot. Keep trying.
Best of Luck.
Regards
Narayana Murty

BO professional - Should I learn SAP BI as well !!!

Hello All,
I am Business Objects Professional 2.5+ years of experience in BO.
However After SAP-BO Acquisition, I am bit worried about the skillset.
Do you think I should learn SAP BI in order to enhance my BI skills.
Which SAP BI skills would be crucial for a BO professional.
I would really appreciate if someone can help me to clear my doubt and make a decision.
--Kuldeep

>
kishan P wrote:
> Im no BI/BO/BW expert (Praveen is...), but I guess you could look at BIA. Or is it BOA? :-|
>
> pk
Lol.
Its BWA.
@ Kuldeep Chitrakar:
Can you you suggest a next SAP skill i should learn (in BI/BW space).
Three things:
SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW)
SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx)
SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator (BWA)
Source: The blog above
If you are really interested then Integrated planning or the newer BPC ,BCS and some EP knowledge would add value.I have not worked on BO, so if all reporting in future turns to BO then you are master of all.

Difference between SAP BPC & SEM BCS

Hi Gurus,
What is the difference between SAP BPC & SEM BCS And throw some light on both?
Thanks in Advance,
Sandy.

Hi Sandy,
The functionality in BPC mainly 1) Planning 2) Consolidation
1) Planning : You can have any type planning scenario. Ex.: Sales planning. Based on the actual previous data
we will have some projection reports on the sales for future sales, so we can have planning scenario here . We can change
the projections as per our requirement for any number of times.
Ex 2: HR Planning. Based on the market condition we have recruitment planning, based on the actual data (Existing Emp.)
Ex 3: Accounts Expenditure planning like this we can have planning forecastings.
2) Consolidations : We can consolidate the group company, companies with currency translations, allocations, Inter Unit
eliminations, consolidated P&L accounts & Consolidated Balance Sheets are possible in this.
But where as in BCS you can do only 2 part. The first part is not possible. Hence I personally suggest you to learn BPC NW
it will be more useful. BPC is now going to integrated with BO (Buss. Objects) also from 7.5 ver onwards.
I hope this may help you.
Regards,
B.S.RAGHU

Documentation of BPS & BCS

Hi,
I am the BW consultant and i have the exposure on FI also. I want learn BPS and BCS, so please any one send me the material or any documentation to my mail ID [email protected]
Thanks in advance,
Sharma.

hi sharma,
Links for BPS Material
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/do
cs/library/uuid/ae9fba90-0201-0010-d490-cbf9a364de95
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/biw/d-f/enhancements%20bw-bps%20formerly%20sem-bps%20in%20sapnetweaver%2004.ppt
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/biw/d-f/frequently%20asked%20questions%20-%20planning%20with%20sap%20netweaver%20bi.faq#q-6
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/5d90209f-0501-0010-59a2-9243ac94a4d7
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/biw/s-u/sap%20bw%20business%20planning%20and%20simulation%20-%20how%20to%20guides%20list.htm
BCS Material
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/67/13843b74f7be0fe10000000a114084/frameset.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/events/sap-teched-03/using%20process%20chains%20in%20sap%20business%20information%20warehouse
I sent to ur mail id. ple check it.
Thanks == Points
Regards,
BW_AZ
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SEM-BCS BAPI object's

Earlier I used a site http://ifr.sap.com for search BAPI of objects. Now the given site is closed. Prompt, where it is possible to learn about BAPI objects in SEM-BCS?

What i know so far ( i am new comer in BCS ), the source data basis is only applicable when do 'Load from data stream'. i have not explore the others.
i fill source data basis with 'Data basis'.
i'm not sure this will work because i am stuck in upload master data.
anyway, have you try to create master data and the delete it in workbench?
can you delete it? because when i tried to delete, errors come.

SEM BCS Documents required

Hi Experts,
I would like to learn about BCS, how doesn't link to BW system. Can anybody share SEM BCS Documents.
SRI

Hi,
Check the below thread for more info:
Re: BCS module implementation
SEM BCS
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/67/13843b74f7be0fe10000000a114084/frameset.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/events/sap-teched-03/using%20process%20chains%20in%20sap%20business%20information%20warehouse
Reg
Pra

BW BCS cube(0bcs_vc10 ) Report huge performance issue

Hi Masters,
I am working out for a solution for BW report developed in 0bcs_vc10 virtual cube.
Some of the querys is taking more 15 to 20 minutes to execute the report.
This is huge performance issue. We are using BW 3.5, and report devloped in bex and published thru portal. Any one faced similar problem please advise how you tackle this issue. Please give the detail analysis approach how you resolved this issue.
Current service pack we are using is
SAP_BW 350 0016 SAPKW35016
FINBASIS 300 0012 SAPK-30012INFINBASIS
BI_CONT 353 0008 SAPKIBIFP8
SEM-BW 400 0012 SAPKGS4012
Best of Luck
Chris
BW BCS cube(0bcs_vc10 ) Report huge performance issue

Ravi,
I already did that, it is not helping me much for the performance. Reports are taking 15 t0 20 minutes. I wanted any body in this forum have the same issue how
they resolved it.
Regards,
Chris

"Learn" no longer working with Euphonix?

I've been messing around some more with Euphonix hardware. It seems that since there was 'native support' with Eucontrol 2.5.5 and with LP 9.1.1 there is no ability to assign values to the controls.
This means that Command-L no longer appears to work with any Euphonix hardware.
Likewise, the 'auto-assign' / 'contextual-assign' mode of Euphonix hardware that reassigns faders and knobs to the control surface when launching a software instrument or AU no longer works.
Is this a mistake? Has Apple and Euphonix gone and shot themselves in the foot?
Has anyone found a way of getting all of this to work again?

Ben_G wrote:
This means that Command-L no longer appears to work with any Euphonix hardware.
Trash Logic preference files, boot Logic (a new song, not template) and try to learn some new assignments using Command+K to open the Controller Assignment advanced dialog for instance.
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