Using Inventory Management in BI

We are trying to make use of inventory data in BI. Weu2019ve installed business content for the cube 0IC_C03 and followed the steps in u2018How tou2026 Handle Inventory Management Scenarios in BWu2019 to get the data to the cube. The best I can understand I've loaded and compressed in the right order.
When we run a report it only seems to be reporting on the opening balance as defined in the 2LIS_03_BX load. It does not appear to be looking at the material movements as loaded in 2LIS_03_BF to calculate balances in the past. We installed from business content the Stock Overview report. Here is a sample of what Iu2019m seeing when drilled into a specific material that I know had inventory movements in 07 & 08 of 2008:
06/2008 1,002 EA
07/2008 1,002 EA
08/2008 1,002 EA
09/2008 1,002 EA
10/2008 1,002 EA
Anybody have any suggestions on what I need to look at? My understanding was that the query would used the material movements to calculate the balances for those months.
Thanks,
Chris

Hi,
If you followed the steps correctly you must get the correct values in BW report and it will match with MB5B in ECC.
Do like this...
If you have any opening stock problem, please run the report
SAP_REFPOINT_COMPLETE and select Insert of Missing Records
and then check the data in the cube.
While checking data in MB5B, you need to give proper selections i.e. date and check valuated stock radio button.
Note: check what are date ranges that are you are giving in BW report and in ECC
Thanks
Reddy

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Edited by: Siegfried Szameitat on Oct 29, 2008 9:30 AM
do not offer points, it is against the rules

Hi Syed,
Deriving values by multipling with price also not correct. results will not match with R/3.
Value Calculation
In principle, values are updated with Plant, Material, and Stock Category only. Quantities are updated with these characteristics, as well as with Storage Location, Batch Number, and Stock Characteristic
Check SAP Note 589024: Evaluations in BW with the Characteristics Storage Location and Stck Char.).
Hope it Helps
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Edited by: Siegfried Szameitat on Oct 28, 2008 4:17 PM

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2LIS_03_BF: extracts material movement data from MM Inventory Management (MM-IM) consistently to a BW system.
2LIS_03_UM: extracts revaluation data from MM Inventory Management (MM-IM) consistently to a BW system.
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Table TBE11:
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POS and inventory management suggestions?

I own and operate a gift shop and wanted to use my iPad, iPhone, and MacBook Pro to ease the burden of inventory management. Any suggestions for a POS system that would help manage what comes in and out of the shop?

Check out NCR Silver. App based POS with back office that tracks inventory levels in real-time. Have visibility to quantity on hand, know how many days of supply are remaining based on past sales history.
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Dear Sap Gurus,
We have implemented the Inventory Management Cube in BW.
Quantities are correct, but we have difference on the stock valuation.
For some material stock value are correct, for some other they are not correct.
A saw a lot of OSS notes and how to on this subject, I am trying to solve this issue using these documents, but based on your experience could you explain me how you solved this issue ????
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Hi
Did you follow the correct steps?
Initialisation of BX data in the first step.(Loading of Opening Stock)
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