Configure Currency Exchange Rates In BW

[Former Member]

Hi All,

i am working on a implementation project.Can anybody explain me the method to configure the exchange rates in BW. And explain the advantages and disadvantages of configuring the exchange rates in BW.Which is the best approach?

Thanks,

Sunitha.

[Former Member]

Sunitha,

You need not maintain the Currency rates in BW.

The best approach is to "Transfer the Global settings" from the source system to BW.

RSA1--> Source System --> Select the SAP R/3 system --> Right Click --> Transfer Global Settings --> Make necessary slections and execute.

Hope it helps!

Amol

[Former Member]

Hi,

easiest way is, not to maintain exchangerates in BW but to extract them out of the source system (presupposed, they are maintained there).

To upload them, go to the Sources system entry in transaction rsa1, context menu and go to the point "exchangerates".

You should schedule the upload of the rates as the first job before any other Extraction is running.

Nevertheless, you can also maintain this manually in BW but you don't have to.

The advantage of currencies an rates in the standard tables is, that you can then use the currency conversion functionalities within your query.

Probably you want to have a year to date evaluation to implement. This can easily be implemented by using the currency conversion, which requires the rates in the Table TCURR (and all other required tables).

Alternativeley you can perform these calculations during upload but, without the TCURR-Tables, this is only possible for rates contained in the uploaded records.

hth

cheers

Sven