Sales Category 

Technical name: 0GN_CAT_SAL

Use

This characteristic is a consolidated InfoObject that provides a global view of the business object "Customer" using various technical displays from different systems. The systems can be either SAP components (R/3, CRM, EBP) or non-SAP systems.

The characteristic 0GN_CAT_SAL is made up of the following InfoObjects in the SAP BW Standard from various SAP components:

Composition of 0GN_CAT_SAL in SAP BW Standard

InfoObject

Description

0MATL_GROUP

Material group (SAP R/3)

0PROD_HIER

Product hierarchy (SAP R/3)

0PROD_CATEG

Product category: Only those used in sales (SAP CRM, SAP EBP)

Data Flow

The following graphic shows the data flow of the InfoObjects involved from various SAP components:

Flexible Update

To facilitate the update of master data and texts from different SAP components into the present InfoObjects for sales category and also into the consolidated InfoObject 0GN_CAT_SAL, additional InfoSources have been developed in SAP BW release 3.0B with flexible update (see also, Flexible Update for Central Master Data Objects).

The concept of consolidated InfoObjects is extensible. You can update additional InfoObjects for the business object "Sales Category from different source systems (for example, non-SAP systems) into the consolidated InfoObject 0GN_CAT_SAL.

Technical Data

Available from Release

SAP BW 3.0B

External Hierarchy

None