PCA dilemma

Hello BW friends,
I have a PCA-related problem:
I need to report planned and actual values on material group (attribute on 0MATERIAL).
In R/3 field "representative material" I have the planned values. This is transported to BW using data source 0EC_PCA_1.
In R/3 field "material" I have the actual values. This is transported to BW using data source 0EC_PCA_3.
I guess that I need to use both of these data sources in order to be able to report on both actual and planned values?
Also, I somehow need to direct both representative material and material into info object 0MATERIAL (since material group is an attribute of this one).
How would you solve this?
I'd be really thankful for some input...
BR,
Fredrik

Hello again,
I need to add field MATNR to the extract structure for data source 0EC_PCA_1 (ISPCACST) in order to be able to report on material number. But how should the user exit for this be written?
I know that the original table for actual PCA postings is GLPCA and the plan postings are in table GLPCP. All postings end up in table GLPCT (aggregated per period) and then function module ECPCA_BIW_GET_DATA reads this and populates structure ISPCACST. Am I right?
But how do I write the user exit code so that MATNR is added and populated in ISPCACST? Which is the source table to use? I would have guessed on GLPCT (since this seems to be used for 0EC_PCA_1) but I can't find MATNR in this one.
How come ds 0EC_PCA_3, which uses the same function module for extraction, and thereby reads from the same source table: GLPCT, includes MATNR?
Please explain the logic of this and I'll be eternally greatful! :-)..
Best regards,
Fredrik

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