Sales data flow

Question

Hello Experts,
This is my first post in this forum. Kindly help.
In my sales data flow, I have header and item data for deliveries, orders and billing. What should be my best data flow if I am trying to build a EDW?
a. Orders, Deliveries and Billing, say each have two DSO's, one for header and one for item. That means for the three areas, 6 DSOs. Consider Orders only now. Should I load the order header and order item into two seperate cubes and then join them by a multiprovider to get a multiprovider for Sales Order. And create similar cubes for deliveries and billing. And if I wanted to consolidate all three areas, then  could I have a multiprovider with 6 cubes (2 each for order, delivery and billing - header and item) ?
b. Or should I have a Consoliadtion DSO on top of Orders header and item so that I have a DSO with order information with header information stamped on each of the item records? and have similar consolidation DSO's for deliveries and billing? (that means extra data loads) and then load an order cube with data from the consolidation order DSO? and similarly two more cubes for biiling and dels? and then have a MP on top of these three cubes?
c. Or should I have just one cube with all order, delivery and billing information, loaded from three different consolidation DSOs?
For all of the above, how does delta changes impact the cube load? where should I use write optimzed DSOs?
Sorry for a long question, but I want to seletc the best design and would like your help
I will give points
Yanz Zemik

Answer 1

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The sales documents you create are individual documents but they can also form part of a chain of inter-related documents. For example, you may record a customer’s telephone inquiry in the system. The customer next requests a quotation, which you then create by referring to the inquiry. The customer later places an order on the basis of the quotation and you create a sales order with reference to the quotation. You ship the goods and bill the customer. After delivery of the goods, the customer claims credit for some damaged goods and you create a free-of-charge delivery with reference to the sales order. The entire chain of documents – the inquiry, the quotation, the sales order, the delivery, the invoice, and the subsequent delivery free of charge – creates a document flow or history. The flow of data from one document into another reduces manual activity and makes problem resolution easier. Inquiry and quotation management in the Sales Information System help you to plan and control your sales.
In Simple steps
The flow is something like this:
1. A sales order is created in R/3 by 'va01'.
2. A check on credit limit is carried out by the system (if configured)
3. In case credit limit is exceeded by creation of this order then the same needs to be subjected to approval.
4. On approval, order picking and delivery document is created wrt to the order document - this is equivalent to selecting ordered material from warehouse and stocking in the loading bay of the warehouse - inventory of inished goods reduces at this point of time.
5. Subsequently a billing document is created - this step realises the fact that revenue is generated.
6. There is a concept of open orders - basically anything in the order document that is partially serviced ( due to non-availability of stocks ) -
the delivery and billing
Transaction Codes:
Inquiry - VA11/VA12/VA13
Quotation - VA21/VA22/VA23
Sales Order - VA01/VA02/VA03
Delivery - VL01N/VL02N/VL03N
Billing/Invoicing - VF01/VF02/VF03
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