Decision Tree finding Reporting tool

Is a standard report available for the

business process?

From the SAP main menu choose Information systems

General report

Check General Reporting Tree

1

Found report?

Yes

No
Explore available information systems (or other report options)
nested in the menus for your application. For example,
Logistics - Sales and distribution - Sales information system.

Check Application Area(s)

2
Found report?

Yes

No
Explore other resources such as OSS, SAP Net, or
American SAP Users Group (ASUG) for more
information on desired reports.

Check Other Sources

3
Found report?
No

Review Choosing the

Right Report Development Tools
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Done!

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Management requirements
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Whats the content of the report?

Who gets the report?

When gets (s)he the report?

Where is the data source for the report?

40 %

Workload in project

Which reports does (s)he get?

Which tool do we use to retrieve the datas?

Technical solution

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Management
requirements

Informationconcept
Existing
systems and
data

New systems
and data

External
data

ERP/Input

Datenvolume and Datastructure

Datastorage

Database

DW

System
requirements

Methods

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Reports Graphics Screens

Dataprocessing
Text

etc.

Output
Frontend

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Whats reporting - SAP Reporting Toolbox

SAP
SAP
BW
BW
SAP EC-CS

Information-systems
Information-systems
(LIS,FIS
(LIS,FIS etc.)
etc.)

CO-PA
CO-PA

Special
Special Ledger
Ledger

Report-Painter/
Report-Painter/
Report-Writer
Report-Writer

SAP
SAP Query
Query

ABAP,
ABAP,
SAPScript
SAPScript

Tables,
Tables,
Fields
Fields

Import,
Import,
Export
Export

RFC
RFC

Word,
Word, Excel,
Excel,
etc.
etc.

InSight
InSight for
for
SAP-EIS
SAP-EIS

SAP-Tools

SQL,
SQL,
ODBC
ODBC
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Data-volume
Details
# of users

Complexity
Flexibility
Level of aggregation

Eis, Reporting tree

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Reports

Reports

BW

Reports

Reports

EIS

EC-CS

Reports
Informationsystems (LIS,FIS etc.)

CO-PA

Others (I.e. TIS)

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SAP / R3
modules

ABAP, SAPScript

SAP / R3
modules

SAP / R3
modules

Report-Painter/ Report-Writer
SAP Query

SAP / R3
modules

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Special Ledger

SAP / R3
modules

SAP / R3
modules

Others (I.e. TIS)

Whats reporting - BW Architecture

Business
Business
Explorer
Explorer

Web
Web
Reporting
Reporting

3rd
3rd party
party
tools
tools

BAPI

InfoCubes
InfoCubes

OLAP-Processor
OLAP-Processor
Administrator
Administrator
Workbench
Workbench

MetadataMetadatarepository
repository

ODS
ODS
Stagin
Stagin Engine
Engine
BW-Server

PSA
PSA

BAPI

SAP
SAP R/3
R/3
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File
File (ASCII;
(ASCII;
CSV)
CSV)

Non-SAP
Non-SAP

SAP
SAP R/2
R/2

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Provider
Provider

SAP
SAP BW
BW

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Example: BW - ROI- Focus

Segmentation and
classification of
customers and
assignment to the
responsibles of the
actions

predesigned
customeranalysis

Objectives
per employees
Action planning

Leadershipcircle

Predefined
salesreport

predesigned
evaluations
about the actions
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Basic informations
for realization of
planned actions

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BW : Quo vadis? (1)

To often a Business Warehouse looks only at the results...

Result
Result

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Costs

Margin/Profit

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Sales

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.instead looking at the company and the customers (causes
& costdrivers).
Costs

Margin/Profit

Sales

Efficiency of
processes

Productquality

Image of
Company

Retention
new
customers

Competence
of employees

Managementquality

Feelings about
Costs/Benefits

Quality of
Customer
Relationship

Technical
Knowhow

Innovation

Result
Result

Causes/
Causes/
Cost
CostDriver
Driver

1
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Competence of
Marketing

BW : Quo vadis? (3)

Tendencies in real Business Warehouse worlds
Yesterday

Tomorrow

Strategic orientation

IT - Project

Business - Project

Businessmodel

automatisation"
of the profit & loss calculation

"Redesign" of processes
and customer relationships

Informationrequirements

automatisation" of the
existing

Tendency towards external

infos; qualitative informations;
decisionoriented

Life-Cycle

3 - 5 years

1 - 3 years

Successfactors

Stability, uniformity,
clear goals

Velocity, flexibility,
price-/earning ratio

Risks

......!?

.......!?

1
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BW : Quo vadis? (4)

Procedure

Tip for BW -project:

Start small
Think big

Projectplanning
& -kick-off

Requirementanalysis

Solutiondefinition

Customization & Test

Design

Implementation

Definition

Technology

Organisation

Revision of
implementation
1
2

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Iteration
and
growth

BW : Theoretical overview-model

Ownership and control

Input

Storage

Output
KPI

Internal data

Dimensions
Ad-hoc analysis

Transformation
External data
Business-data

Meta-model

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Trends and
szenarios

BW: Analysis Phase

Manager:

"Why don't they give me the information I

need?"

BW Project
Leader:

"Why don't they know what they

want?"

Goal of the analysis phase is:

to develop an information- & reporting vision
to identify the relevant informations to manage
the business
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BW: Less is more

I.e. sales informations
I.e. financial informations
I.e. external informations
I.e. internal informations

Local DW-informations
(stakeholders II)
Transactional System
(I.e. SAP)
(stakeholders I)

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Management
DW-informations
(stakeholders III)