Elimination of Internal Business Volume

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Can anyone please xplain the concept of elimination of internal business volume with a simple example??

Many thanks.

[Former Member]

Hi Cezar,

Thanks for the reply. But I could not basically understand why and when should we go for the elimination of internal business volume. I have gone thru the link and it made little sense to me. can u please explain the concept in still simpler terms.

Many thanks.

[Former Member]

Hi Appu !

The elimination functionality supports the accounting principles of multientity consolidation for multiple simultaneous hierarchies.

BW eliminates the Key Figure value: this is different from legal consolidation, which is provided in SEM-BCS.

To use this function you need as prerequisites

• two characteristics Sender and Receiver, sharing the same master data (Sending Cost Center <-> Receiving Cost Center; Business Area <-> Partner Business Area)

• a special Reference Key Figure that stores the result after elimination, is created with reference to the key figure to be eliminated and is added to the InfoCube definition, but not stored in database.

Thus, this function have a 'functional' scope (avoid to see these 'internal volume' !)

When you execute a query that uses a key figure with

the elimination of internal business volume, the

internal business volume-relevant characteristics are

always read at leaf level. Hierarchy level aggregates

therefore cannot be used in this case.

Furthermore, memory consumption can increase

significantly.

To avoid these performance issues, read OSS note 630502.

Hope it helps !

Bye,

Roberto

[Former Member]

> Hi Cezar,

>

> Thanks for the reply. But I could not

> ould not basically understand why and when should we

> go for the elimination of internal business volume. I

> have gone thru the link and it made little sense to

> me. can u please explain the concept in still simpler

> terms.

>

> Many thanks.

A very simple example:

Cost Center A has six consultants. Five of them work for an internal project of cost center B and CC A receives 500.000 € per year from CC B. Total revenues are 700.000 €.

CC B has 300.000 € (external) revenues.

Now there is manager Dogbert who is responsible for both CC A and B. He says that his cost centers have a total revenue of 1.000.000 € (700.000 CC A + 300.000 CC B).

But half of the revenues are paid by CC B for which he is responsible too. So his boss doesn't want to see the 1.000.000 € in BW but the 500.000 (external) revenues instead. That is basically what the IBV key figure shows (if configured correctly ;-).

Best regards

Dirk

[cezar_manechini]

Hi Appu,

The classical example of using Elimination of Internal Business Volume is when you don't want to display revenues made between two cost centers in an organization.

You can find detailed information and some examples at this link:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d5/784d3c596f0b26e10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

Regards,

Cezar