Planned Cost allocations in BPC

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Is it possible to plan for secondary cost in BPC and then run allocations?

Alternatively, can we retract primary cost from BPC to ECC- run allocations in ECC- etract it back to BPC?

Please help.

Regards

SSC

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

ECC has powerful features for alloication than BPC. You may retract and try allocations in ECC and bring the data back to BPC via BW.

Ravi Thothadri

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi all,

Thanks for all the answers.

Just to extrapolate a bit more on this....is it also possible to retract data to other SAP application areas such as Investment Management or SAP Project systems etc.?

Best Regards

SSC

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi SSC,

I dont think we can retract data to other application areas. However, there is always the feasibility to export the BPC data to a flat file and upload it to the other application.

Hope this helps.

[former_member200327 · Accepted solution]

Hi SSC,

Yes, you can retract data to any ERP application area, even a custom one. This Process Chain just calls a BADI in target SAP system and you can access any tables you have access to.

Please take a look at http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bpc75_nw/helpdata/en/3f/72bb857f8f4012a5b1eaa5ac64bdf8/frameset.htm for an example of retraction BADI.

Hope this helps,

Gersh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Yes you can retraction BPC plan data back to PS, run a diff version and then push it back to BPC. BPC 7.5 NW supports it

Edited by: Basant Kumar on Oct 13, 2010 10:34 AM

[Former Member]

You could push to a open hub and read into ECC or do a remote FM to read from BW to ECC.

Ravi Thothadri

[Former Member]

Hi SSC,

I didnt understand your question properly. You can definitely run allocations. Can you please explain the your design in a bit detail and what exactly you want to do.

[Former Member]

Hi Nilanjan

Thanks for your response.

1. In SEM BPS we would plan primary cost in BPS and then retract it to R/3. In R/3 we could run assessments/ distribution and pull extracted the assessed (secondary cost) back into BPS.

The question is if we can do similar thing here in BPC and how?

2. In case we dont want to do this as above, can we run cost assessments within BPC itlsef? If yes please advise how.

Hope the question is clear now.

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards

SSC

[former_member200327]

Hi SSC,

1. A retraction Process Chain is delivered in BPC NW 7.5 and there is an example on how to use it. So, the answer is "yes", you can retract data back to ECC, run allocations there and than extract results again to BPC via BW..

2. I'd say, preferable way is running allocations in BPC; there is a RUNALLOCATION statement for that in BPC.

Regards,

Gersh