Question on "How to Handle Inv management Scenarios in BW" docuemnt.

Hi all,
I read the document "How to Handle inventory management scenarios in BW" and I did not understood what a snapshot scenario is? Can anyone tell me what is the difference between snapshop and non-cumulative scenario's.
thanks,
Sabrina.

In a non-cumulative scenario the current stock of any day (or month) is not stored physically in the cube. Instead the stock values over time is calculated dynamically at query runtime by the BW OLAP engine, which basically derives the stock by summing up the periodic value changes (cumulative inflow and outflow of the non-cumulative key figure), which are stored in the cube (together with a so called stock marker used as the basis of the calclation).
In the snapshot scenario the current stock of any month is calculated in a snapshot ODS and then loaded to a cube. This means that the the stock value is physically stored in the cube in an ordinary cumulative key figure.
Since a non-cumulative cube store value changes and not the actual stock this means that performance might be bad if there are many value changes for each characteristic combination in a month (since the stock is calculated at runtime and many records must be processed to derive the stock). So in this case the snapshot scenario is better since no runtime calculations of the stock need to occur and since only one record, containing the actual stock value will be stored in each month for each characteristic combination having a stock value.
I think you would be better of with an example, but with this explanation in mind looking at the scenarios in the How to again might clarify things...
Regards,
Christian
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