Product 

Technical name: 0PRODUCT

Use

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

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

Composition of 0PRODUCT in the SAP BW Standard

InfoObject	Description
0MATERIAL	Material (SAP R/3)
0SERVICE	Service number (SAP R/3)
0BBP_PROD	Product (SAP EBP)
0CRM_PROD	Product (SAP CRM)
0APO_PROD	APO product (SAP APO)

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 product and also into the consolidated InfoObject 0PRODUCT, 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 “Product” from different source systems (for example, non-SAP systems) into the consolidated InfoObject 0PRODUCT.

Technical Data

Available from Release	SAP BW 3.0B
External Hierarchy	None