SEM BCS(Business Consolidation)

Hi Friends,
I am wroking BW.But now i need to work on SEM BCS.I am very new to SEM. Plz can any one provide me some meterial on SEM BCS.
Thanks

Hi,
please take a look at this site: http://service.sap.com/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000688351&.
About BCS transactions I found this thread: https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=329906&messageID=549616.
Some more useful links....
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sem320bcs/helpdata/de/a6/ece73c2d1011d299250000e8a5999a/frameset.htm
http://www.sapprofessionals.org/?q=sem_bcs_key_design_considerations_for_integration_points
http://sapnewbie.blogspot.com/2006/03/sap-sem-bcs.html
http://www.pragmatek.com/news/BW%20Reprint%20Jun%202004.pdf
Follow this link.
https://websmp103.sap-ag.de/sem
you have to go TO
media library -> presentations -> SEM-BCS. Here u can find the relative document.
Hope this helps
Happy Life,
Aravind

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SEM BCS - Partnership Consolidation

Hi friends:
Please let me know the following:
a) What is a Partnership consolidation and which version covers it?
b) What are new features in SEM 6.0 and where do I get documentation?
I thank you in advance for the above information.
Sincerely,
Virgo

Virgo,
IMHO, it should mean the multilevel ownership between the companies involved.
In this context I treat the partnership as a different share belonged to this or that party.
Like: Company A has 80% of Company B which in turn has 90% of Company D etc.
There is no special functionality needed. SEM-BCS covers purchase and equity methods.
That is all is needed here, I guess.
Hope this helps.

SEM:BCS - Copying Consolidated data from one version to another

Hi,
We have a situation where we do Consolidation of Forecast data. However this involves mixing Actuals data. For eg.
1) Q3 forecast would contain Q1 and Q2 as Actuals and Q3 and Q4 as Forecast
2) System has already done the consolidation for Q1 and Q2 lets say in version 0
3) Forecast is a different version eg. F1.
4) I want to be able to copy the Consolidated data of Q1 and Q2 from version 0 to version F1. Then load the data for Q3 and Q4 for forecast and perform consolidations for Q3 and Q4.
What I have seen in the system is -
a) You can copy only the non-consolidated data from one version to another and not for eg. Elimination entries etc.
b) This means that I have to perform consolidations in version F1 for quarters Q1 and Q2 again even though its already been done in the Actuals version (0).
c) Is there any way out of this. There is always the possibility that the consolidated data in Q1 and Q2 does not match between Actuals (version 0) and Forecast (F1)

Hi,
We had the same issue. In your solution you'll have to delete old (Q1 and Q2) forecast data and replace them by actuals. It's too problematic.
And you are absolutely right about possible inconsistency between actual and forecast data.
So, we've chosen another way.
We make separate consolidation in actual, budget, plan and forecast versions.
In plan and forecast we everything that is possible do periodically (including currency translation) -- to avoid the possible influence of historical data.
In a BEx query (and Excel workbook) level we retrive: N months of fact, forecast data for N1 month and a plan data for N2 month. After summing up all figures we have predicted (name it as forecast) data for N+2 months.
Of course, the actual, forcast and plan components are hidden in a report.
This is possible because, in plan and forecast we use turnovers (not balances) only. Even a balance sheet is produced without problems, not talking about P&L and Cash Flow.
Hope it helps.
Eugene

SEM BCS in SAP ERP 6.0

Hi Experts
have you worked with ERP 6.0 and SEM BCS into the ERP?
in ERP 6.0 all SEM components like BCS, BPS, CPM are in the same system as "add on" or I dont Know, is posible to work with this componentes from ERP?
I think is necessary install SEM BW and plug ins, I will apreciate your comments about this..
Thanks in advance

I realize that this is a BCS SEM forum and I do believe that OLAP is a better technology than OLTP for consolidation functionality, but there are "equivalent" BCS transactions in ECC as well. UCMON is "roughly" CX20. The consolidation menu is CX00(N) and customization is CX01(N). Both have been visible directly after entering "/n" in OK Code input field.
For more go to menu CX000 (nonCX transactions may not work due to reasons mentined earlier in the thread):
    SEM BCS - Business Consolidation
--      CX00BCS                        Business Consolidation
   CXGP                           Global Parameters
--      Master Data
   Consolidation Groups
   Consolidation Units
   FS Items
   Subitems
   Custom Subassignments
   CXRH                           Characteristic Hierarchies
--      Data Collection
   CXCD                           Monitor
   Reported Financial Data
   Additional Financial Data
   Manual Posting
   Automatic Posting
   Utilities
   CXV1                           Validation
--      Consolidation
   CX20                           Monitor
--      Manual Posting
   CX50                           Enter
   CX51                           Change
   CX52                           Display
   CXA0                           Mass Reversal
--      Automatic Posting
   CX54                           Interunit Elimination
   CX5U0                          Elim. of IU Profit/Loss in Inventory
   CX57                           Consolidation of Investments
   CXEC                           Reclassification
   CX24                           Preparation for Consolidation Group Changes
   Utilities
   CXV1                           Validation
---      Information System
   ECCS                           Consolidation Reports
   Tools
--      Business Information Warehouse
--      Business Explorer
   FC_BW_BEX                      Business Explorer Analyzer
   SEM_NAV                        Business Explorer Browser
   FC_BW_RSZV                     Maintain Variables
   FC_BW_RSZDELETE                Delete Query Objects
---      BW Administration
   FC_BW_RSA1                     Administrator Workbench
---      Tools
   S001                           ABAP Workbench
   S002                           Administration
   SBPT                           Business Communication
--      Business Engineer
   SPRO                           Customizing SEM BCS
--      Business Framework
   BAPI                           BAPI Explorer
   BAPI Development
   SWLD                           Business Workflow
--      SAPscript
   SE71                           Form
   SO10                           Standard Text
   SE72                           Style
   Administration
--      Hypertext
   SO70                           Structures
   SO72                           Documents
      ---      Find
          |
          |-----   Information System
   SO80                           Information Classes

CONSOLIDATION EC-CS Vs SEM-BCS

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Hi All,
Please explain me the difference btween
1. CONSOLIDATION SEM BCS AND CONSOLIDATION
EC CS.
2. under what circumstances each SEM BCS or EC CS will be used.
3. if possible plz give an example or a scenario.
thanks in advance.
Regards
Sirisha

Hi,
BCS is Business consolidation and Simulation and EC CS is Consolidation and Simulation in ECC 6.0 BCS is entirely out side R/3 and EC CS is R/3, here they have included some features in R/3 for consolidation and at the same time BCS is out side R/3 and has more features....while taking the reports then you take help of BW... end of the day you will get the data from R/3 even for BCS also...
Hope understood
Thanks,
Vasu...

Consolidation SEM BCS Vs EC CS

Hi All,
Please explain me the difference btween
1. Consolidation SEM BCS and Consolidation EC CS.
2. under what circumstances each SEM BCS or EC CS will be used.
3. if possible plz give an example or a scenario.
thanks in advance. i apperciate for reply.
Regards
Sirisha

Hello
SEM BCS and ECCS both are consolidation applications of SAP System.
ECCS is based on R/3 where as SEM BCS is based on BW.
There are no special circumstances, however SEM BCS is the latest version. Moreover the recent direction of SAP is towards BPC u2013
Business Planning & Consolidation.
Hope this helps.
Ambadas

BUSINESS CONSOLIDATION SYSTEM

Hi Gurus...
Could you please send any document related to BCS (BUSINESS CONSOLIDATION SYSTEM )

HI. Sudheer
Business Consolidation (SEM-BCS)
The following sections contain the documentation on the BW-based component Business Consolidation.
The documentation on the R/3-based component Business Consolidation is located elsewhere. This documentation can be accessed, for example, by calling up Application Help in your R/3-based Business Consolidation system.
Purpose
You can use the SEM component Business Consolidation (Consolidation) to determine the resources of a group (or a similar enterprise or organizational unit), the claims by others to those resources, and the changes to those resources. Consolidation also provides the means for internal and external enterprise reporting.
You can consolidate on the basis of customer-defined consolidation units. Consolidation units can represent, for example, companies, plants, business areas, profit centers, and cost centers. You can also portray matrix organizations (for example, using a combination of companies and profit centers).
You can standardize the financial data reported by individual consolidation units to adhere to the accounting and valuation standards of the group. You then translate the standardized financial data from the various local currencies into the group currencies. Finally, you can eliminate the effects of group-internal relationships (for example, from interunit trade and services). Thus, you calculate the consolidated financial statements as if the group were a single entity.
You can use the analysis functions of SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM) and those of SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) to analyze and report on your consolidated financial statement data.
Integration
The Consolidation component provides functions to collect master data and individual financial statement data from data files from non-SAP systems as well as SAP systems.
All SEM components are based on BW. These are:
Business Consolidation (SEM-BCS)
Business Planning and Simulation (SEM-BPS)
Corporate Performance Monitor (SEM-CPM)
Stakeholder Relationship Management (SEM-SRM)
Business Information Collection (SEM-BIC)
The data processed by Consolidation is written to the BW system. There you can share the data between Consolidation and the other SEM components. For example, you can:
Collect SEM-BPS planning data for use as reported financial data in consolidation
Use consolidated actual data as the basis for further planning in SEM-BPS.
Features
Versions
You can use versions to execute parallel consolidations with different categories of data (for example, actual data, planning data, forecasting data), using different accounting principles (for example, US GAAP, IAS, German HGB), using different valuations, and/or for simulations.
Hierarchies
You can create hierarchies for almost all characteristics (for example, consolidation units and financial statement items), where some hierarchies have special, consolidation-specific properties.
Consolidation Charts of Accounts
The component enables you to use different charts of accounts for consolidation. For example, this allows you to generate several consolidated financial statements in parallel to accommodate different accounting principles.
Collection and Standardization of Reported Data
You can use online data entry or flexible upload to collect individual financial statement data and other consolidation-relevant data into the consolidation system.
You can post manual entries, for example, to standardize the reported data to meet the accounting and valuation requirements of the group.
Consolidation Tasks
You can automatically execute the following consolidation tasks:
Currency translation (which translates the financial data into the currency of the consolidation group)
Validation
Interunit eliminations (for example, for payables and receivables, revenue and expense, or investment income)
Elimination of interunit profit/loss in inventory
Consolidation of investments
Reclassification
Allocation
Balance carryforward
The automated postings are controlled by the task settings you define once beforehand in Customizing.
Reporting
After performing the consolidation tasks, you can use BW reports to analyze your data. SAP provides pre-defined BW business content (InfoCubes, queries, etc.) for this purpose.
You can use XBRL to create individual or consolidated financial statements.
Execution and Monitoring of the Consolidation Process
You use the consolidation monitor to execute the consolidation tasks and to monitor the entire consolidation process.
Constraints
The automated execution of the elimination of IU profit/loss in transferred assets is presently not available.
The automated execution of consolidation of investments presently only covers the purchase method with the activities first consolidation and subsequent consolidation.
You can use manual posting to perform the consolidation tasks that are not yet automated to meet the statutory requirements for creating consolidated financial statements.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sem320bw/helpdata/en/62/f7e73ac6e7ec28e10000000a114084/frameset.htm

New GL features (Profit Center Segmentation) in SEM-BCS

Experts,
I'm planning to use New GL feature (Profit Center Segmentation) in ECC 6. I also intent to use SEM-BCS as consolidation report.
Can this New GL feature be used in SEM-BCS? Please let me know how to use them in SEM-BCS.
Thank you for your respond.

Sorry I was away.
I am in ECC 6 and the New GL report gives Profi center report . But I ca get the comfort like 8A ledger with drill down.
My doubt is will the new GL report takes care of all CO related transactions w/o GL?
Thanks, Chitra

SEM-BCS how to make Consolidation Unit with Business Area

Hi all,
I am newbie in SEM-BCS and implementing BW-based BCS. Our situation is as follows.
Situation
- we have 7 companies worldwide and 4 different Business areas.
   Every company consists of at least two business areas in R/3.
- we have sales transaction in FI among companies.
requirement
- we need consolidated F/S in whole consolidation group and consolidated F/S in Business area level.
actually, we are planning to make the consolidation unit in company level.
Do we have to break down consolidation unit in business area? or just breakdown category solves our requirement?
If we have sales transaction even between business areas within certain company, do we have to make it in business area?

Following are the answer to your questions
Q:   What to do for using this cube in BCS?
A:    Add the business area to the cube. Generate the data basis and the business area gets added to all ODS/DSO , virtual cube.
Suggestion: To avoid deleting the Profit center cube, since you can reduce the complication.
Q:   Is it the problem about DATA BASIS Role?
A:   No. Assign the role of subassignment or consolidation unit as needed. If you are giving the role of consolidation unit to business area, you need to insert the char Partner business area also in the cube.
Q:   Is there some materials to solve this situation?
A:   Refer the matrix consolidation material in help.sap.com from BCS portion. As per SAP literature any relevant object can be made as second consolidation unit such as business area, functional area etc. Dont fear. Once you start it the issue will be resolved in few days.
Expected complication:
If you are going to make business area as subassignment then it is simple. But if you are making business area as Consolidation unit, go for partner business area in cube.
Ensure with your BI consultant that all BCS messages are addressed in BI infoobject for business area specifically.
Things can get complicated only if we allow for it get complicated. But you are doing great.. Keep posted.. Good luck.!!!..

SAP BPC Consolidations vs SEM-BCS

Hi all,
Has anyone compared the features/functionalities of SAP BPC Consolidation with SEM-BCS consolidation? What are the advantages of BPC Consolidation over SEM-BCS, and vice-versa? For a brand new implementation, what is the preferred tool?
Thanks,
Sujoy Banerjee

Hi Sujoy,
In general if you are starting out with a new implementation, BPC is the recommended solution for several reasons:
1) It's a unified solution offering both Consolidations and Planning
2) It's designed to be owned and managed by business users, not IT
3) It's integrated with the Enterprise Performance Management for Finance suite, which also includes profitability and strategy management
If however you need support for complex consolidation scenarios, such as legal consolidations, you may want to consider BCS.
You should be able to find several documents comparing the two solutions if you go the Support Center (https://websmp104.sap-ag.de/support) and do a document search on BPC vs. BCS.
Hope this helps.
Chris Clay

FI-GL Activating for Consolidation SEM BCS

Hello together,
can somebody tell me in a few steps how to activate the FI-GL (0FI_GL_6) that it can be used for consolidation in SEM BCS. My problem is that FI_GL_6 (and also FIGL_C10 for new FI-GL) have not all required fields for consolidation in SEM BCS, especially movement type is missing.
I know how to use the BCS data collection functionality "load of data stream" and I also know how to activate the BI Content for FI (and how to connect the data basis from BCS with the "FI Cube" via source data basis).
But how can I prepare the FI Cube (DataSource, InfoSource) that it concludes all neccessary informations?
I need following InfoObjects in the BI Content: how to?
these InfoObjects are not containend in the standard FI-GL Business Content...or do you know other possibilities for getting FI-GL data in BW and ready for consolidation in BCS?
0PCOMPANY
0MOVE_TYPE
nicht notwendig
0FUNC_AREA
0COMP_CODE
0PROFIT_CTR
0COUNTRY
0PCOMPANY
0GL_ACCOUNT
Thanks for support

Hi MP M,
Hi Install all the components related to that flow.I mean Datasource,Transfer rules,Infosource,Update rules,Cube.Then nothing is missing in this flow which are in BI Content.
For the Info objects not in the flow
Search them individually from the BI Content and Install them.Later you map them respective fields in the transfer rules manually.Then maintain update rules to them.
Hope this helps
Regards
Karthik

How to prepare FI-GL for Consolidation in SEM BCS

Hello together,
can somebody tell me in a few steps how to activate the FI-GL (0FI_GL_6) that it can be used for consolidation in SEM BCS. My problem is that FI_GL_6 (and also FIGL_C10 for new FI-GL) have not all required fields for consolidation in SEM BCS, especially movement type is missing.
I know how to use the BCS data collection functionality "load of data stream" and I also know how to activate the BI Content for FI (and how to connect the data basis from BCS with the "FI Cube" via source data basis).
But how can I prepare the FI Cube (DataSource, InfoSource) that it concludes all neccessary informations?
Thanks for support.

we consolidate on the BSEG tables for actuals and GLPCP for plan data, it all depends on your business requirements, if you feel that the details out of GL_6 is insufficient find out the tables that bring the needed information and build a custom data source, but my guess is that the content datasrc's should solve the issue in most cases.

SEM BCS - Error in Consolidation Area

Dear Experts,
When i save my consolidation area, there is an error message.
it is "Syntax error in GP_ERR_UCDTYPE, row 8.880".
The Diagnosis said "Component called REFYEAR already exists".
I can not found "REFYEAR" in my system.
I am using info cube 0BCS_C11.
Please help....
Thanks in advance.

Hello
Though I am not an expert in this area I have found the following information with a similar problem in another customer that maybe useful:
"On the basis of your problem description it seems that you assigned in
the data basis maintenance the `SEM-BCS info-object catalogue` for
characteristics and key figures to the two info-object catalogues (on
the first tab strip of data basis maintenance). This makes the trouble.
Please read the F1 help carefully and if you need an extra info-object
catalogue, then please create one. Please note that the SEM-BCS standard
info-object catalogues are NOT appropriate for this purpose.
F1 help:
"InfoObject Catalog for Characteristics
InfoObject catalog of the SAP Business Information Warehouse to include
additional characteristics.
Use
You use this field as follows:
In a data basis, the InfoObject catalog contains the quantity of
additional fields that can be selected on the Additional Financial Data
tab page for investments and equity.
In a source data basis, the InfoObject catalog portrays the definition
of an external field catalog, which can be used in a method of the
category Flexible Upload, if a data basis was allocated to the source
data basis."
In order to remove the info-object catalogs you can use the transaction
UCWB01.
Hope it helps .
Regards
Javier

Concept of Integrated Consolidation Unit of SEM BCS

HI Experts,
I'm now in the SEM BCS 4.0 and BW 3.5 implementation. Previously I was the ECCS specialist and before the FI and AM specialist.
Now I'm in SEM BCS implementation.
I have one question in connection to the integrated consolidation unit. As the reference, I take the concept of this using the ECCS.
As you might know, the creation of integrated consolidation unit for using realtime update method in ECCS, is pulled from FI company ID.
Meanings if I set the configuration properly, I can pull out the company master data as the consolidation unit master data in consolidation monitor.
Now, in SEM BCS, I want to do the same thing. I mean, off course I can create company ID in R/3 and then create the consolidation unit manually using UCWB. But this scenario can create inconsistency, and I also think this is not the right concept of doing integration between R/3 and SEM BCS.
My question is : what is the concept of this master data integration, and what is the proper way to do it?
Any advise on this question is highly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
regards,
Halim

Hi Halim,
You need to build properly your data basis in data model.
Assign your company to a consolidation unit role:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sem350bw/helpdata/en/dd/f3783bcfef4a2de10000000a114084/frameset.htm
I sent to you the file concerning BCS that you asked for in another thread.
Best regards,
Eugene

SEM BCS - Consolidation Chart of Accounts

Hi all,
For the SEM-BCS implementation I am using ECC as the operational system. ECC folks are in the process of building a group chart of account in FI.
Can you suggests the work around to map group chart of account to consolidation chart of account in SEM-BCS?
Thanks in advance
RJ

I am not sure if anybody has replied you.
In SEM 4.0, You need to download the chart from R3 and then upload as hierrachy in the UCWB workbench.
In SEM.6.0, You have master data load direct from R3 and you can do the same.
Functional advice:-
Normally R3 creates operational chart of account in R3. Each account has a group account feild, if populated the mapping of operational chart to group is amintained in R3 itself.
You can upload the GL master with group chart account number and then this will obviously have the mapping for your use in BCS.
Consolidation chart of account in R3 (if its the accepted group chart) will be the same group chart which your ECC guys are preparing.
Are they using ECCS in R3??
Rgds
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