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    COREY PEARSON[ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER

    MEMBER SINCE: 2008

    CHAVONE JACOBS[ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER

    MEMBER SINCE: 2003

    ALLAN FISHER [ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER

    MEMBER SINCE: 2008

    General MillsSAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.0,

    Version for SAP NetWeaver Ramp-Up Project& SAP NetWeaver BW Ehp1 Upgrade Experience

     Jay Roble – General Mills, Inc.

    Amy Stine – General Mills, Inc.Brian Tyson - SandPoint Consulting

    Ver 042409

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    Learning Points

    Ramp-Up experience of SAP BPC 7.0 NW How BPC works in a Sourcing Planning Project

    Importance of the planning data model and master data

    Key Lessons Learned

    Added complexity of SAP NetWeaver & SAP NW BW BPC 7.0 NW integration with BW

    Note: SAP BW shop, no prior BPC / OutlookSoft experience

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    Introduction Planning Project

    Why BPC 7.0 NW Ramp-Up?

    BPC Sourcing Planning Project

    Ramp-Up Obstacles EhP1 Upgrade & BPC installation

    Key Differences BPC NW & MS, BPC & BW

    Key Learnings

    Appendix – Additional NW-BW BPC info

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     Jay Roble – General Mills

    Integration Architect – IS Data Warehousing 10+ years SAP & SAP BW experience

    Amy Stine – General Mills

    Senior Applications Analyst – IS Supply Chain

    7+ years SAP ECC & BPS experience

    Brian Tyson – SandPoint Consulting

    Principle Consultant, SandPoint Consulting

    5+ years implementing BPC Microsoft Platform

    1 year Ramp-Up BPC Netweaver Platform

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     World’s 6th largest food company

    $14.9 billion in FY08 net sales*

    29,500 employees

    Marketed in morethan 100 countries

    Fortune 500: #214**

    * Includes proportionate share of JV sales

    ** Excludes proportionate share of JV sales

    The Company of Champions

    Introduction (cont)

    General Mills

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    Introduction Planning Project

    Why BPC 7.0 NW Ramp-Up?

    BPC Sourcing Planning Project

    Ramp-Up Obstacles EhP1 Upgrade & BPC installation

    Key Differences BPC NW & MS, BPC & BW

    Key Learnings

    Appendix – Additional NW-BW BPC info

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    Planning Project - Overview Goal:

    Streamline the direct materials budgeting / planning process

    Design Objectives

    Fully integrated operational planning/tracking system

    Automate Manual Processes

    Update of actual data

    Excel V-Looks ups for additional actual data fields

    40 Offline Excel input buyer planning worksheets

    Combining 40 Excel worksheets back into one

    Improve Reporting

    Immediate consolidated reporting on buyer input Flexibility to report by Finished Good/Division

    Exception reporting capabilities

    Eliminate 3 Week Cycle time & no visibility until cycle complete!

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    Sourcing Manufacturing Division (Mktg)

    RM Code

    (e.g. flour, vitamin,

    carton, sugar)

    RM Rates @ Code/Plant level

    BOM Conversion

    RM Requirementin lbs/cs/etc.

    “Production FP”

    FP Production Volume

    FP Sku/PNL

    (e.g., 15 oz. Yellow BoxCheerios or Cheerios PNL)

    FP RM rates

    Delivery Volume Est. (FP)

    BOMConversion

    Inventory Adj‟s

    & Locations

    “Delivered FP”“Raw Materials”

    Two “Languages”. Raw Material (RM) & Finished Product (FP)

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    Introduction Planning Project

     Why BPC 7.0 NW Ramp-Up?

    BPC Sourcing Planning Project

    Ramp-Up Obstacles EhP1 Upgrade & BPC installation

    Key Differences BPC NW & MS, BPC & BW

    Key Learnings

    Appendix – Additional NW-BW BPC info

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    Why BPC 7.0 NW Ramp-UP? – Initial Plan

    Project Kick-Off 

    Plan to use BW-IP (Integrated Planning)

    BW-BPS being replaced by BW-IP

    Sent Employee to BW-IP training

    Hired SAP BW-IP consultant

    BW-IP Proof Of Concept

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    After attending SAP TechEd 08, indications were:

    • BPC is now the long term solution

    • BW-Integrated Planning (IP) is not a long term solution

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    Why BPC 7.0 NW Ramp-Up - Options

    1. BW-BPS (Business Planning & Simulation)

    Currently used & stable technology Support mode till 2013

    No available in house resource

    Don‟t want to train on “Old” functionality

    Don‟t want to hire consultant to develop on “Old” functionality

    Would be throwing away development

    2. BW-IP (Integrated Planning)

    Current prototype

    No in-house resource

    Roadmap indicates will be replaced by BPC

    3. SAP-BPC

    Ramp-Up Netweaver Version

    Microsoft Version

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    Why BPC 7.0 NW Ramp-Up – BPC NW Benefits

    BPC NW vs. BPC MS

    Increased dimensionality – removed 65,000 member limit

    Lifecycle Management – Transport

    Support for NW BWA (BW Accelerator)

    BPC NW Benefits

    SAP Netweaver platform fits with our corporate model SAP Roadmap (BW-BPS & BW-IP being replaced)

    Leverage existing NW-BW system & hardware

    Leverage existing in-house NW expertise

    Perceived ease of integration with core BW data Excel front-end a plus, and integration to other Office apps

    Can put more power in the hands of the business

    No migration back from MS to NW.

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    Introduction

    Planning Project

    Why BPC 7.0 NW Ramp-Up?

    BPC Sourcing Planning Project

    Ramp-Up Obstacles EhP1 Upgrade & BPC installation

    Key Differences BPC NW & MS, BPC & BW

    Key Learnings

    Appendix – Additional NW-BW BPC info

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    Sourcing Planning Project

    Goal:

    Streamline the direct materials budgeting / planning process andprovide a system to facilitate the monthly assessment and

    communication of raw material risks & opportunities.

    Benefits

    Plan & Actual Reporting of direct raw material costs by Finished

    Product hierarchy levels (Division, Business Unit)

    Introduction of new buyer-defined hierarchy for custom grouping

    of raw materials

    Budgeting Tools with Simulation and immediate feedback loop(eliminate 3 week cycle time)

    Greatly increased data integrity and accuracy by eliminating 40offline spreadsheets

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    Sourcing Planning Project - Project Team

    GMI IS Analysts

    Business user requirements, BPC install & development BW BPS & BEx experience, No prior BPC experience

    GMI BW architect

    BW backend integration, NW upgrade, technical issues

    BW data modeling, BEx & NW upgrade experience

    SAP Consultant

    BPC solution design, input schedules, data manager

    No prior BPC Experience

    SandPoint Consultant

    Outlooksoft expert (BPC 5.1 MS)

    BPC solution design, input schedules, training rest of team

    SAP Ramp-up Coach

    Direct contact with BPC NW developers, customer message

    escalation, white paper solutions.

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    Project – As Is Business Process

    Heavily manual process Both Business & IS

    Detailed “Bottoms-Up” Rates by Mat‟l/Plant - only twice per year

    Offline monthly outlook process

    Divisions requiring Cost Impacts

    by Finished Product Hierarchy To determine pricing actions

    Lengthy cycle time 3 wks on avg & no visibility until cycle is complete

    Multiple sources of information ECC, BW, Spreadsheets, Market

    Current Process

    Buyer 

     Worksheets

    SAPBW

    BEx /Excel

    SAPECC

    Manualspreadsheet

    edits

    Offline Data

    DataReconciling

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    Project – To Be

    Greatly increased data integrity and accuracy through elimination

    of manual massaging of data and numerous offline spreadsheets Provide flexibility for both detailed „bottoms-up‟ planning and

    higher level „top-down‟ outlook updates

    Immediate feedback on cost impacts and ability to revise and dowhat-if scenarios prior to ECC load

    V2

    Vn…

    V1BPC

    To Be

    SAPBW

    BEx /Excel

    SAPECC

    ImmediateReporting

    DataIntegrity

    ForecastAccuracy

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    [ Project Data Model – BPC Security Four teams

    IS Admin (9 users, incl. consultants) Access to everything

    Finance „Power Users‟ ( 5 users)

    Access to submit data

    Access to maintain dimension members

    Access to maintain corporate templates

    Sourcing Buyers (40 users)

    Access to read and submit data

    Read Only/Reporting (18 users)

    No update access

    BPC Application Security is administered from the BPC AdminClient only

    Does not leverage existing SAP Netweaver security

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    Project Data Model – Overall Design

    Data Volume:11,500 raw material/plant combinations60,000 raw material/finished good/plant combinations

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    Project Data Model – Application Design

    BPC is an Account-Based modeling tool

    e.g., one key figure model Used KEYFIGUREID dimension (i.e. QTY, PRICE, SPEND, etc.)

    for qualifying the one key figure value (SignData)

    Duplicate dimension member values across dimensions

    Duplicate values are allowed in BPC However, supporting EV functions (“fully qualified data”) had bugs

    Not fixed until BPC SP2

    Interim fix to prefix dimension keys where risk of duplication

    Time dimension BPC requires YEAR.XXX format

    Not the same time concept as BW

    e.g., 2008.INP, 2008.Q, 2008.Total, MSTR.INP, MSTR.Q, etc.

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    [ Project Data Model – Application Design (cont) Hierarchies

    Hierarchy nodes must also be dimension members Hierarchy display can be challenging. We opted to create

    additional properties for a „flattened‟ view

    Dummy data

    Creation of dummy dimension members to handle data atdifferent intersections

    inability to have unassigned dimensions

    Versions

    Multiple versions for snapshots, planning cycles

    Units

    BPC does not have inherent units. We created another

    KeyFigureID and posted the value to SignData so it could be

    used in calculations.

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    [ Project Data Model – Data Examples

    KeyFigureID

    Prefixed member values

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    Each hierarchy parent mustalso be a dimensionmember

    BPC Hierarchies are exclusive to asingle dimension

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    Project Data Model – Data Transformation (cont)

    Allocations

    Actuals at RawMaterial/Plant/Vendor Plan Production at Fini/RawMaterial/Plant/SourcePlant

    Weighted Avg. Rate at Raw Material/Plant

    Supporting data at RM/Plant (Price Unit, prev. plan price)

    Could not use Allocation Engine due to keywords not supporteduntil BPC SP02

    Workaround BPS Fox formulas

    Currency conversions

    Note – must convert „quantities‟ as well as „amounts‟

    Copy app to app (cube to cube)

    Used BPC Data Manager InfoProvider load functionality

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    Project Data Model – User Interface

    Excel as interface was a big hit with our user base

    Familiarity / easy transition from old process to new one Use of Conditional formatting to warn for unusual data

    Some excel crashing issues

    Formatting of leading zeroes, rounding

    Admin Console vs. Web Admin Certain parameters are only accessible via the Web Admin

    Harder to be in multiple instances at same time, unlike SAPGUI

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    Project Data Model – Lessons Learned

    Account-based model can be challenging for operational (key-

    figure based) planning Greatly increased cube record counts

    Loading of transactional data – one load per key figure

    No inherent units

    BPC for NW is not integrated with BW Master Data PRO - provides flexibility for ad-hoc master data

    CON – cannot take advantage of existing rich, complex, accurate

    master data

    CON – duplication of data and data loading capabilities NO UNASSIGNED!!!!

    Data must post to an intersection of all application dimensions ata base level

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    Project Data Model – Lessons Learned (cont)

    Hierarchies provide on-the-fly rollup, but nodes are not postable

    BPC Dimension Properties are not the same as BW NavigationalAttributes

    No supporting master data

    Cannot be used for slice-and-dice, only for restricting data using EvDREfilters

    Limited aggregation capability

    Locking Mechanism

    Plan data is only locked at the time of write back 

    Minimizes end user error messages, but last-in is what stays

    Script, MDX and Allocation logic Can be challenging to learn and understand

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    Project Data Model – Lessons Learned (cont)

    Excel as a front end has positives and negatives

    User adoption is high for excel “power users”

    Users must be respectful of the input schedule and reportdesigns

    BW instance refresh

    Careful you do not overwrite work-in-progress Make regular backups of your file service files (script logic,

    transformation files, etc.) by downloading these to a local drivefrom UJFS

    Currency conversion is different than NW

    For operational models, must convert everything, includingquantities

    Conversion is a triangulation on USD, not a “From – To”

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    Introduction

    Planning Project

    Why BPC 7.0 NW Ramp-Up?

    BPC Sourcing Planning Project

    Ramp-Up Obstacles

    EhP1 Upgrade & BPC installation

    Key Differences BPC NW & MS, BPC & BW

    Key Learnings

    Appendix – Additional NW-BW BPC info

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    [ Ramp-Up Obstacles

    Lack of product support for duplicate master data

    EVDRE bugs with fully-qualified dimension members

    Prefixed dimension members to create unique values

    Application Available Flag inconsistencies – note fixed

     JavaScript in conversion files – syntax issue fixed

    Authorizations too broad on service users

    SAP reviewed and tightened up the role authorizations

    Installation issues

    Clarifications and guidance provided by RIG Back Office

    Performance of input schedules with comments – note fixed

    Performance of maintaining dimension members – note fixed

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    [ Ramp-Up Obstacles (cont)

    Script logic syntax errors and gaps in functionality

    Note fixes and use of BPS Fox due to timing of SP02

    Troubleshooting BPC error messages

    Errors were cryptic or misleading

    BPC Logs not clear

    Customer message support challenges

    Unable to allow SAP connectivity to .NET server

    SAP support personnel still gaining product knowledge

    SAP Developers in opposite time zone

    No integrated application help

    Separate PDF and online available

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    Introduction

    Planning Project

    Why BPC 7.0 NW Ramp-Up?

    BPC Sourcing Planning Project

    Ramp-Up Obstacles

    EhP1 Upgrade & BPC installation

    Key Differences BPC NW & MS, BPC & BW

    Key Learnings

    Appendix – Additional NW-BW BPC info

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    Upgrade Dates

    Ehp1 upgrade was a separate project

    Ehp1 separate Ramp-up for non-BPC ramp-up customers

    TEST pre-release Ehp1 sp01 (no Java) & BPC 7.0 NW sp00

    Late RTC of Ehp1 would have cut into our testing time

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    General Mills SAP Global Instance Landscape

    TPP

    SCM 5.0sp 8

    ERPECC 5.0sp 13

    EWPEhp1 sp2

    NW-BW 7.01- BW-BPS- BPC 7.0 sp1

    APP

    SCM 4.1sp 8

    HRPECC 5.0

    sp 13

    HWP

    BW 3.5sp 16

    SRPSRM 4.0

    sp 8

    XIPPI 7.0

    sp 13

    CRP

    CRM 5.0sp 5

    CWPBW 3.5

    sp 9

    CFP

    ERP 4.7sp 19

    PTPPortal 7.0 sp 10

    ISMSolution Manager 4.0 sp 13

    IEP

    ECC 5.0sp

    IBP

    BW 3.5sp 16

    IPPPortal 7.0

    sp 10

    MSPNW2004

    sp 17

    CMPSolution Manager 4.0 sp 13

    InternationalNorth America Core

    Coupon

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    EhP1 Upgrade

    Ehp1 sp02 (BI 7.01)

    BPC 7.0 NW required Ehp1

    BPC is an add-in, separate install

    Upgrade from NW-BW 7.00 SPS13/SP15

    Enhancement pack installer utility

    Allows upgrade to SPS14/SP16 and apply Ehp1 in one step

    Also upgraded SAP EP Portal & SAP PI (Process Integration XI)

    NW-BW

    General Mills Enterprise Data Warehouse

    7 TB

    NW-BW Enhancement Pack not the same as ECC No switch technology, all or nothing in NW-BW

    Software component changed SAP_BW_700 to SAP_BW_ 701

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    EhP1 Upgrade - „Enhancement Pack Installer‟ New „Enhancement Pack Installer‟ utility

     Java based GUI run from the web

    Similar to the „Upgrade Assistant‟ used to install ECC600

    The „shadow system‟

    New concept if not seen the ECC600 upgrade

    Shadow system is a copy of the SAP system

    Upgrade can occur in shadow system while production up and running

    Activities during specific phases of the upgrade

    Simply preparation occurs in the shadow system (Uptime)

    Eventually need to lock down the production system

    To avoid changes that would result in mismatches between the shadow andproduction system

    Downtime appx 4 – 6 hours (mostly Java install)

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    EhP1 Upgrade - Upgrade Tips

    Pre-Upgrade

    Check for inactive objects before an upgrade, program RSUPGRCHECK

    All DSO data activated DBA create Oracle table spaces

    Do Kernel upgrade as early as possible

    Download Java patches before starting upgrade

    „/usr/sap/trans/EPS/in‟

    Start PROD upgrade 2 weeks early Upgrade to Pre-Process (Allows to resolve issues)

    3 – 4 Days before PROD Upgrade

    Upgrade to downtime

    Locks system for changes

    Allows loads, reporting, etc.

    Post-upgrade Re-enable SNC (single sign-on), enhancement pack installation disabled

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    [ Ehp1 Upgrade Issues InfoCubes

    Manage Tab dump if using 7.0 Archive

    Note 834280 - Installing technical BI Content after upgrade

    Tran: RSTCO_ADMIN, Job: BI_TCO_ACTIVATION

    BEx Web reports

    Can save to KM but not open (Ehp1 SP04)

    BEx Workbook 

    User w/o Auth to change, can change

    No fix

    Excel BPS layout issues:

    Note 574240 Certificates in Microsoft Excel

    Note 428092 Additional function in Manual Planning

    Note 176642 Simultaneous editing several Office documents

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    [ Ehp1 Upgrade Issues (cont.) BEx Web iViews Delta links

    Links to BI Web Applications do not work in FPN

    FPN (Federated Portal Network)

    NW BI Java 7.01 SP02 PL0

    Customer message, SAP provided Java patch to 7.01 SP02 PL1

    Note 1245015 BEx Web 70 + FPN Scenario: NullPointer after patch

    16/30 EP (Portal) Ehp1

    Upgrade could not use Enhancement Installer

    Due to distributed environment with high availability

    Used JSPM instead

    Ehp installer on Dual Stack (same SID / System #)

    Error if app server has only ABAP stack (no Java)

    SAP supplied fix, be sure to test in QA

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    BPC Installation – System Landscape

    Five instance landscape:Test

    Sandbox

    Development

    QA

    Production

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    BPC Installation Steps

    NW 7.0 BPC NW SP01

    Install prerequisite software on .NET server & MSMQ

    Install ABAP Server Component (Tran SAINT)

    Configure ABAP Server (see appendix for detail steps)

    Install .NET server component (9 steps, see install guide)

    Configure .NET server component (6 steps, see install guide)

    Set up Initial Application Set

    Install Client Components

    Note: Many manual steps.

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    BPC Installation Tips / Issues

    Tips

    Need .NET server, Basis & BW resources Verify correct security roles for content activation

    Issues

    CUA issues with service IDs

    Incorrect end user security during content activation SAP needed to log onto system & delete entries

    Now automated program to delete APSHELL & start again

    .NET server performance

    Note 1000057 - Patches for SAP Connector for Microsoft .NET2.0.1

    Early Installation guides were incomplete

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    Introduction

    Planning Project

    Why BPC 7.0 NW Ramp-Up?

    BPC Sourcing Planning Project

    Ramp-Up Obstacles EhP1 Upgrade & BPC installation

    Key Differences BPC NW & MS, BPC & BW

    Key Learnings

    Appendix – Additional NW-BW BPC info

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    Key Differences: BPC NW and Microsoft

    NW Lifecycle Management (Transports)

    Have to transport the whole AppSet

    Ability to import transactional data directly from BW

    Ability to leverage BW backend transactions

    LISTCUBE, RSA1, LISTSCHEMA, SM37, SM51, SE16

    Use of custom process chains for execution of logic Similar to SQL SSIS packages

    Currently no Business Process Flows in NW

    Smaller library of script logic keywords in NW version

    Ability to use BAdi‟s for custom logic

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    Object Description Namespace

    Static DDIC Transactions, classes, programs, tables, dataelements, message classes, etc.

    UJ*

    Generated DDIC Tables generated at runtime/1CPMB/DM* - Data Manager

    /1CPMB/*

    BW Objects Generated technical namesIe. InfoCubes, InfoObejcts, etc

    /CPMB/*

    BW Object tables Generated tables from BW objectsInfoCube Fact & Dim tables,InfoObject SID, Attribute, etc tables,Etc.

    /B28/*

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    Object Format Name Example

    AppSet /CPMB/ AppShell /CPMB/APSHELL

    MultiProvider /CPMB/M PLANNING /CPMB/ATMKOOE

    InfoCube /CPMB/I PLANNING /CPMB/ATIKOOY

    InfoObject /CPMB/ Category /CPMB/ATDOHBU

    Cube Tables Fact: /B28/F & /B28/EDim: /B28/DP or

    PLANNING /B28/FATIKOOY/B28/DATIKOOY2

    InfoObject /B28/ Category /B28/SATDOHBU

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    Planning Project

    Why BPC 7.0 NW Ramp-Up?

    BPC Sourcing Planning Project

    Ramp-Up Obstacles EhP1 Upgrade & BPC installation

    Key Differences BPC NW & MS, BPC & BW

    Key Learnings

    Appendix – Additional NW-BW BPC info

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    Key Learnings

    Ramp-Up adds additional challenges & Time to your project

    Time lines, Functionality gaps,

    SAP & BPC consultants and SAP Coach critical

    BPC is not fully integrated with NW BW data

    No direct Master Data load from BW

    Transactional data requires multiple loads

    Operational planning in an Account-based planning system

    Fitting multiple key figures into one can be challenging

    Data duplication and high cube record volume

    Complexity in ensuring all the data lines up as needed

    BPC NW is not identical to SAP BPC 7.0 for Microsoft Some functionality, script keywords not included in the NW version

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    Key Learnings (cont)

    BPC Reporting capabilities highly dependent on data model

    Changing model down the road is not easy. Solution success highly dependent on detailed upfront reporting

    requirements

    Not just what to report on, but how to report

    BPC 7.0 for NW, requires .NET expertise in addition to NW & BW

    Requires some IT involvement Install, upgrades, custom process chains, transports

    Corporate-level planning application with integration to SAP BW data

    Management and development of the application / data model can becomplex

    Shift from traditional SAP model of IS roles & responsibilities

    EHP1 upgrade complexity

    A project unto itself that could impact your enterprise BW

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    Why BPC 7.0 NW Ramp-Up?

    BPC Sourcing Planning Project

    Ramp-Up Obstacles EhP1 Upgrade & BPC installation

    Key Differences BPC NW & MS, BPC & BW

    Key Learnings

    Appendix – Additional NW-BW BPC info

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    Appendix: BPC Administration

    Component DescriptionDimension Library(BW Characteristic InfoObjects)

    16 DimensionsNo Dimension member formulas

    Applications (BW Cubes) 6 (3 in active Use)1.8 Million & 3.9 Million rows

    Work Status Not in ScopeScript Logic Used in Test Instance, Production (SP02)

    FX Translation From LOCAL to USD/CAD

     Journals Not in scope

    Security 72 Users, 4 teams, 4 task profiles, 3

    member access profiles

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    Module Component Description

    BPC Excel Input Schedules   • 3

    BPC Excel Custom Reports   • ~ 5 – 7 + ad-hoc• One complex with VB

    BPC Excel Park-N-Go   •Yes

    BPC Excel Data Manager – Master Data   • Flat Files• Maintain Dimensions

    BPC Excel Data Manager – Transaction Data   • Loads from BW InfoProvider• Loads from Flat file•15 Transformation Files•5 Conversion Files

    BPC Word   • Not in scope

    BPC PowerPoint   • Not In Scope

    BPC Web Live Reporting   • Not In Scope

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    Appendix: BPC Functional Scope - Other

    Module Component Description

    BPC Custom Custom Logic in SAP BPC NW

    Using a Business Add-In (BAdI)

    •Not tested, future

    BPC Custom Open Hub & InfoSpoke   • Not tested, future.

    BW PC Process Chains   • Delivered PC• Custom PC to run script logicfrom BPC client.

    BW-BPS Fox Formulas   • 9 Allocations

    BW-BEx BEx Analyzer Query   • One End User Report•Create File for ECC load

    BW-BWA (BIA) In production, BW cubes loaded   • Not used for BPC cubes

    BW-ABAP Custom ABAP   • Close Real-Time Cube Request

    BW-CTS Transports   •Transport AppSet to production

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    Table Description

    UJF_DOC BPC File Service Document Master Table

    UJF_DOCMAP BPC File Service Document Directory Path Mapping

    UJF_DOCTREE BPC File Service Document Tree Table

    UJT_TRANS_CHG BPC Transports - Object Changeability Table

    UJA_SVR_DEFAULT BPC: Server Defaults

    UJE_* BPC Security tables (teams, profiles, users)

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    UJ00 BPC Configuration

    UJBPCTR BPC Transports - Create Request

    UJFS BPC File Service

    UJQ0 Query Runtime Parameters

    UJR0 Write back Runtime Parameters

    UJSTAT BPC Performance Statistics Report

    UJUT_DATA Unit Test Data Maintain

    UJ_VALIDATION BPC Validations Maintenance

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    Appendix: BPC Installation Details Configure ABAP Server (In each NW-BW instance):

    ABAP buffer size to at least 2GB

    1. Set /CPMB/ namespace modifiable, CPMBPC software component„Restricted Modifiability‟

    2. Set /B28/ namespace to modifiable.

    3. Create 3 BPC service user ID‟s & assign BPC roles.

    4. ALEREMOTE user configured with profile S_BI-WHM-FC

    5. Tran RSTPRFC – RFC destination for After Import method6. Tran SM59 Connection test on RFC dest MDS_PARSER

    7. Assign auth to activate business content to role

    8. Assign S_RS_ALL to BPC_SYSADMIN user

    1. Also to user doing content activation

    9. Create entries in BPC transports table UJT_TRANS_CHG.

    10. Install ApShell – Program UJS_ACTIVATE_CONTENT

    11. Define .NET service users to log on to ApShell

    12. .NET virtualization is supported

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    BPC How-To Guideshttps://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/wiki?path=/x/zb4

    Installation, Master, Configuration, Operations Guideshttp://service.sap.com/instguidescpm-bpc --> 7.0 Version for SAP Netweaver

    Security Guide

    http://service.sap.com/securityguide --> SAP Business User

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