BPC client sits on the client machines, from where; you will be doing the design. There are mainly 3 interfaces available - BPC Admin, BPC Office, and BPC Web. BPC Office, in turn has 3 interfaces - Excel, Word, PowerPoint. These interfaces can be used for various requirements.
Transformation file provides the mapping of fields from BW to BPC and is an excel file in BPC. It contains transaction data from InfoObjects in BW with BPC dimensions defined in the administration console.
There are three sections defined for mapping file:
Options: Contains the general settings.
Mapping: Used to assign dimension in BPC system with a source column in BW InfoObject.
Conversion: Contains the link of other Excel sheets to apply the conversion routine.
Audit functions allow you to create reports that contains history of user sessions and system information.
You can create Audit reports on the following topics:
Business Process Flows: You can create these reports in BPF.
Security: You can create these reports in Security.
General: You can create these reports under general.
To meet the Business Planning and Consolidation requirement of an organization, you need to build a model in an environment, which is defined as a collection of several dimensions.
Requirement: SAP NetWeaver ABAP 7.3 or 7.31
Database: Any of the above version of SAP NetWeaver support.
Operating System: Any supported version of SAP NetWeaver system and database engine.
You can do reporting on non-reporting models but you cannot assign work status to them.
Yes. You can have a look at the installation guide available on market place for detailed requirements.
Dimension Logic: This can be configured in BPC system using simple mathematical formulas.
Business Rules: This allows you to create rules in BPC system to perform specific functions.
K2 Script Logic: This is used to perform some specific functions which can’t be achieved using out-of-box functionality to meet the business requirements. You can create K2 script logics to perform certain functions, which can be performed in a standard system.
The concept of planning is the same as you have in any other tool. The functional side of the planning remains the same. However, the tool differs. The way you configure a planning scenario will be much different than any other planning tool. Unfortunately, it will not be feasible to address this in the forum. You can definitely go through the study materials for a better understanding.
Drilldown is different than drillthrough. Drill down is used to drill down on member data within dimensions. You can drill down on members in a worksheet, or you can drill down on charts and graphs. Drill down is conducted within one report in the Excel interface whereas drill through is a 'jump' outside of the Excel Interface.
This layer is responsible to store all the data in database. SAP NW back-end system is responsible to create objects and data stored for BPC system. NetWeaver supports most of the databases like SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, and many more.
We use reporting models for analysis purpose. Non Reporting modules include Driver and Rates model and are used for currency rates, price, ownership data, etc.
Types of Reporting Models:
Types of Non Reporting Models:
BPC comes with pre-delivered components for consolidation, which can be leveraged on. There are few business rules, which make the consolidation process easier.
UJD_TEST_PACKAGE .You must specify the User ID .The DM package can be selected with F4 .
BPC and IP have completely different architecture. BPC doesn’t use aggregation levels or filters. BPC and IP have no relation and thus, cannot be compared. BPC uses various script logics, business rules for doing the planning. Manual planning can be done with input schedules. The input schedules are on excel platform and are quite versatile. You can use BPC functionalities along with native excel functionalities for better design of the input schedules.
%USER%: Returns current SAP Business Objects Planning and Consolidation User
%APPSET%: Returns current SAP Business Objects Planning and Consolidation AppSet (Application Set)
%APPLICATION%: Returns current SAP Business Objects Planning and Consolidation Application
%YEAR%: Returns current calendar year.
The 7.5 version is currently in the ramp-up stage and should be available in few months. I am not sure of the exact month.
Go to EPM Ribbon → More → EvDRE Migration.
Work status is used to lock a region of data in a model. This is used to override the user’s member access privilege to write to a particular region.
There are multiple dimensions defined for a region with one property called as OWNER. While defining the work status, following are defined:
Work States: It belongs to physical state of data.
Security: You can set different levels of security on changing data in the system –All or Locked. You can set who can change the work state − Manager or Owner.
Data Update: This defines how data will be updated by the customer.
Push: This option is used to push the same work state for all the children of a member.
Star Schema for Exceptional Reporting : SAP BPC uses NW InfoCubes to store the data. The dimension model used is extended Star Schema so it makes BPC with NW system an exceptional system for reporting.
No Database Dependence Version: BPC NW version is not dependent on database version and can run common databases like DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.
BW Accelerator Support : SAP NetWeaver BW accelerator tool is an additional feature that can be used to enhance the performance of reporting in the system even if you are using large datasets. It indirectly helps in saving the cost for a company as less number of report performance issues are reported.
BAdI Development and ABAP Support: SAP BPC with NetWeaver allows you to use ABAP programming to develop K2 script logic. It enables to create business add-in BAdi interface in the back-end system, which can be called later from script logic developed in BPC system. It helps in solving the complex business requirements and reducing the development time for an organization.
Custom menu content is defined by two sections in custom menu template - Default section and Menu item section.
A conversion file is used to apply the conversion rules for BPC dimension and is an Excel file. It contains three sections:
External: Contains the value from external source.
Internal: Contains the value it should be having for BPC dimension.
Formula: Defines the conversion formula applied to each record.
Simple Conversion:
Complex Conversion:
Embedded model is different from Standard model and includes data access to all community users. For Embedded design model, initial versions used were SAP BW Integrated Planning and Planning Application Kit i.e. BW-IP and PAK.
In Standard model, BPC environment contains the BPC applications or models and each model generates a BW InfoCube which is hidden.
Jump to any website Jump to a BW query Jump to ECC tcode.
EVGTS: The EVGTS (Get value and scale) function retrieves a data value based on the specified members, and scales the value if the scale property is enabled on the dimension. The report templates provided in the sample application set have a scale reference in the Control Panel area of the template.
EVSND: EVSND This Send function references another cell and sends its value to the database when you select Send and Refresh Schedules. The parameters specify the dimensions that identify where the data value is to be sent in the database. EVSND returns the value from the database to the referenced cell. You do not need to add any EVGET functions to the sheet to return values to the cell. Since the values are returned to the referenced cell, BPC sends only the cells that have changed since the last send in the current session. By putting the formula in the EVSND cell and not in the input cells, you decrease the chances of your formulas getting overwritten or erased. To further protect the formulas, you may want to hide the EVSND cells in the input schedule. This function takes members that not specified from the current view settings.
R_Acct (A) is used for maintaining different types of Rate.
The following keywords can be used to modify the scope:
You can publish books to BPC web. Administrators and Power users have an option to create books of reports by collecting series of reports.
You can select an output as Printer copy or .pdf file, which can be stored on the server. You can use Book Publishing wizard for this. Go to ePublish option and select Book Publishing wizard from there.
To perform currency conversion and intercompany eliminations, you need a dimension type - Intercompany dimension (I). To execute intercompany elimination, an application should have the following:
C_Acct (A) − For maintaining charts of account.
C_Category (C) − To define category.
Groups (R) − Like GROUP A (USD), GROUP B (EUR), and GROUP C (RMB).
Entity (E) − It contains the business unit used to derive process.
C_Datasrc (D) − Data Source Dimension.
IntCo (I) − It determines the level of the entity hierarchy at which level the elimination needs to be performed.
Time (T) − Time in all dimensions.
Flow (S) − To keep track of movements in Consolidation.
Processing a dimension will execute the following steps:
SAP Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) allows your organization to improve its financial and operational performance management. SAP EPM supports various functionalities with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation BPC-NW or BPC-MS like financial consolidation, financial information management, supply chain performance management, strategy management, and many other areas.
To define member dimension formula, you have to put a Square bracket around the dimension and there is dot between two.
[PRODUCT].[PRODUCT1] – [PRODUCT].[PRODUCT2]
[SALES].[SALES1] / [SALES].[SALES2]
Standard Arithmetic functions have to be used in dimension formula - addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication (*), division (/) - are used in SAP NetWeaver.
Logic Scripts is defined as a set of SQL or MDX programming structure to perform some customized functions for flexibility and manage data models. When some specific requirements are not achieved using business rules, those can be met by the use of Logic Scripts.