Standard Inventory Management in SAP BI 07

Hi experts,
I have a fresh implememtation requirement for the standard inventory management, i have gone through few documents, but i am confused with the version of the documents, at it seems the functionality of the inventory mangement has changed over a period of time a little bit,
i am trying to get a doument which has a complete steps for implementing the inventory management in SAP BI enviornment.
As i still need to confirm and understand the exact steps.
Thanks

Hi Daljeet,
Please have a look at the how to document provided by SAP.
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/f83be790-0201-0010-4fb0-98bd7c01e328
-Vikram

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Dear Experts,
I have a task in hand to implement Inventory Management in SAP BW 3.5. Now, this is the first time that we will be implementing anything related to Logistics and I havenu2019t done so earlier in my support projects. I have got 10 hrs of downtime.
I need to fetch the report for both Trading as of now.
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Plant
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1) What are the fields from above that can be pulled from standard BI Content Reports (if possible, please specify which report)? OR fields (or combination of fields) that are already in the cube?
2) For every above field, customer has given standard movement types.
For ex: for Receipts against PO = Mov Types 101,105,123,162 (Doc Type IN/IM)
            for Receipt against STO = Mov Types 351, 352 (Doc Type UB)
But when brought in BI, all routines are based on processing keys (BW Transaction key). Where can I find mapping of each processing key to the corresponding movement type?
If you know which processing key can be used for above fields, please let me know.
3) What are the other fields that need to be considered in routines. If possible please specify field wise.
4) Should I extend the 0IC_C03 with these new custome KFs creating a new zcube or should I add only required fields in zcube.
If I follow the latter, will there be any impact on standard BF/UM runs as in If I load till PSA and from PSA I follow my customized update rules terminating into my customized cube?
Thanks friends.

BJ,
My questions are:
1) What are the fields from above that can be pulled from standard BI Content Reports (if possible, please specify which report)? OR fields (or combination of fields) that are already in the cube?
~ You will get fields from the Cube only.
2) For every above field, customer has given standard movement types.
For ex: for Receipts against PO = Mov Types 101,105,123,162 (Doc Type IN/IM)
for Receipt against STO = Mov Types 351, 352 (Doc Type UB)
~ Check this Table in Source system for BW Keys : TMCLVBW
But when brought in BI, all routines are based on processing keys (BW Transaction key). Where can I find mapping of each processing key to the corresponding movement type?
If you know which processing key can be used for above fields, please let me know.
Check this table
3) What are the other fields that need to be considered in routines. If possible please specify field wise.
That depends upon your requirement in the report or Check the standard Dcoument for Inv management in SDN search.
you will get lot of help.
4) Should I extend the 0IC_C03 with these new custome KFs creating a new zcube or should I add only required fields in zcube.
If I follow the latter, will there be any impact on standard BF/UM runs as in If I load till PSA and from PSA I follow my customized update rules terminating into my customized cube?
~Best Practice and even SAP Recommends Make a ZCUBE and then enhance or customize to fullfill your rek.
No impact follow IM steps for BW.
Make sure you keep these things in Mind:
There are 3 SAP delivered transactional data sources for stock management.
2LIS_03_BX : Always needed to carry the initialization of the stocks.
2LIS_03_BF : Initialize this in source if you need historical data else an empty init can be done for this to load only future delta records. If the Source system is new then no need to do an initialization.
2LIS_03_UM : Only needed if revaluations are carried out in Source. This data source is helpful if adjustment in material prices is done time to time otherwise it wonu2019t extract any data.
2. Check list for source system. Needs to be carried out before initialization of the above 3 data sources .
A.   Table TBE11 : Maintain Entry u2018NDIu2019 with text u2018New Dimension Integrationu2019 and activate the flag(Note 315880)
B.   Table TPS01 : Entry should be as below(Note 315880)
PROCS u2013 01010001
INTERFACE - SAMPLE_PROCESS_01010001
TEXT1 u2013 NDI Exits Active
C.   Table TPS31 : Entry should be as below(Note 315880)
PROCS u2013 01010001
APPLK - NDI
FUNCT u2013 NDI_SET_EXISTS_ACTIVE
D.   Tcode u2013   MCB_
In most cases you need to set the industry sector as u2018standardu2019. For more info please see Note 353042
E.    Tcode u2013 BF11
Set the indicator to active for the Business warehouse application entry. This entry may needs to be transported to the production system. (Note 315880)
3. After running the setup data, check the data for the fields BWVORG, BWAPPLNM, MENGE. If no data available in these fields then some setting mentioned in the above checklist are missing in R/3. Correct the issue and rerun the setup data.
4. Data staging with DSO for BX extractor is not allowed. Data should directly load from extractor to Cube only once. Choose the extraction mode as u2018Initial Non-cumulative for Non-cumulative valuesu2019 in the DTP.
5. DSO is possible for BF. If you are creating a standard DSO then choose the fields MJAHR,BWCOUNTER,MBLNR,ZEILE as key fields. Some of these fields wonu2019t be available in the standard data source but the data source can be enhanced using LO Cockpit (LBWE) to add these fields. In addition to these other fields depending upon the DSO structure is also possible.
Note 417703 gives more info on this.
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A.      Load the BX data. Compress the request with stock marker(uncheck the marker option).
B.      Load the BF and UM init data. Compress the loads without the stock maker(Check the marker option).
C.      The future delta loads from BF and UM should be compressed with Stock marker(uncheck the marker option).
8. If in future the cube needs to be deleted due to some issues then the load process should also be carried out as above. (only init of BF and UM should be loaded first and then the deltas should be processed)
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~AK

Indication of documents about Inventory management in BW

H
I've got this excellent document "How to handle inventory management scenarios in BW". Very clear, easy to understand.
I'd like to go into more details about 2LIS_03_BX (initialization of the current stock), compression of requests and marker update.
Does anyone have indication of other documents that deal with these subjects?
Thanks in advance
César Menezes

Hi Cesar:
Please refer to the documentation below:
"10 important points to consider while working with inventory management", blog by Ranjit Rout.
/people/ranjit.rout/blog/2009/06/14/10-important-points-to-consider-while-working-with-inventory-management
"Non-cumulatives / Stock Handling"
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/93ed1695-0501-0010-b7a9-d4cc4ef26d31?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true
"BI Inventory Management- Data Loading", paper by Gaurav Kanungo.
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/906b837a-0d54-2c10-08b8-bde70337547e?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true
"Inventory Management (0IC_C03) Part - 1", paper by Surendra Kumar Reddy Koduru.
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/60101663-3cb7-2c10-3687-8d1e0ef51b0d?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true
"Inventory Management (0IC_C03) Part - 2", paper by Surendra Kumar Reddy Koduru.
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d0783925-f4be-2c10-9c89-ffa108f72547?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true
"Inventory Management (0IC_C03) Part - 3", paper by Surendra Kumar Reddy Koduru.
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e00860a4-350f-2d10-29a0-fc09681a8bae?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true
"Inventory Management in SAP BW", article by Harishraju Govindaraju.
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/9054ac59-aac4-2d10-3d9b-df98c52b4f31?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true
"Loading to the Inventory Cube 0IC_C03", blog by Akshay Chonkar.
/people/akshay.chonkar2/blog/2010/05/19/loading-to-the-inventory-cube-0icc03
"Insights into Cube compression", blog by Arun Varadarajan.
/people/arun.varadarajan/blog/2008/08/19/insights-into-cube-compression
SAP Note 643687 - "Compressing non-cumulative InfoCubes"
SAP Note 745788 - "Non-cumulative mgmnt in BW: Verifying and correcting data"
SAP Note 1548125 - "Interesting facts about Inventory Cubes"
Regards,
Francisco Milán.
Edited by: Francisco Milan on May 7, 2011 12:08 PM

Info Req on Inventory Management

Hi Experts,
I am working on BI 7.0. Our client is planning to implement the Inventory Management in SAP and they will use the BI as the reporting tool. So we need to feed the Inventory management data into BI.
So I want to work on that point and need some information like what are the Data sources we will use for Inv Mgmt and how can we load the data from SAP R/3. Is there any special steps that we need to take into account while we work on this area.
If any one of u can give some inputs in this regard and any helpful material reg the same will be helpfull to me.
Thanks.

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Check below links, you will get an idea about Inventory Management.
http://help.sap.com/bp_biv270/documentation/HowToInventoryNW.pdf
http://sapbwneelam.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-to-handle-inventory-management.html
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The way it will work - Goods receipt will always happen in SAP for all locations and then interface needs to Trigger subsequent Putaway activities at Exacta Ware house ( third party warehouse system) for those 10 locations.
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Krish
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The way it will work - Goods receipt will always happen in SAP for all locations and then interface needs to Trigger subsequent Putaway activities at Exacta Ware house ( third party warehouse system) for those 10 locations.
Goods Issue for these locations will happen from Exacta and then update will be posted in SAP via interface.
All locations will be created as Plant /Storage locations in SAP.
Need your inputs what special configurations need to happen in SAP for those locations so that goods receipt in SAP can trigger putaway activities in Exacta system .
Do we need to do configuration for decentralised Warehouse in SAP for handling this?
Pl. give your inputs based on your past experience where you handled such scenarios via interface with SAP Inventory management and legacy warehouse systems.
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Hi experts,
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Analysis Process Designer and Inventory Management

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upload the extracted data from the psa into a data layer
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build a infoset that joins the data
Step 3.
build one query to reducing data and make two copies of ist
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build a useful data mining model
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query the data
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I hope I helped you.
Otherwise give me a message.
[email protected]

Q&A db for warehouse management and inventory management

Hello Everybody,
i read on the help.sap website that standard as well as industry specific versions of Q&A db are available. but the website doesnt say where. i searched a lot but the links dont lead to the actual Q&A db.
i would like to request you to kindly share the Q&A db for inventory management and warehouse management with me as i need it for preparing the AS IS documentation.(preferably automotive industry but if not then even standard Q&A db is fine).
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Now QADB will not help to map the clinets requirement. Instead of QADB get AS IS information form Coreusers... thats best practice now....
Go through www.sap-img.com for further details...
Edited by: Ganti on Jul 26, 2008 7:26 AM

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