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Component documentation Load from Data Stream Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Purpose

You can use this component to periodically load the following data from a BW InfoProvider (for example, InfoCube or ODS object) into the Consolidation System:

·       Totals data (posting level 00)

·       Documents (posting levels 01 and 10)

·       Additional financial data

You can load data that already exists in an InfoProvider from a local or a nonlocal BW System.

You can load data that resides in another SAP component and exists in BW InfoProviders, for example, from:

·       A component such as FI-GL, FI-SL, CO-PCA, or CO-PA

·       EC-CS

·       SEM-BPS

The structure of the InfoProvider that contains the source data may be different than the data structures of the data basis in Consolidation.

Implementation Considerations

The data to be loaded into the Consolidation System needs to be available in an InfoProvider. For example, you need to have uploaded EC-CS data into an InfoProvider by means of a BW upload.

You need to have created a source data basis to be used for the load from data stream method, and you need to have specified that particular source data basis in a data basis.

Integration

You can use the load from data stream component either as an alternative or as an enhancement to other methods of data collection.

Within the load from data stream method, you can use the BAdI for data collection (UC_DATATRANSFER) to execute mapping activities that are not directly supported by the method (such as, mapping one source field to n target fields). For more detailed information, see the system documentation of the BAdI UC_DATATRANSFER and the documentation of its methods.

Features

You specify the source InfoProvider (and other information) in Customizing for methods. Furthermore, in the mapping section you determine how the characteristics and key figures of the source InfoProvider are portrayed in the Consolidation System. Finally, you determine the source area in the source InfoProvider (with its characteristics and key figures) along with the target area to be posted in the data basis.

In addition to accessing data that is directly stored in an InfoCube in SAP BW, you can also access data that is not stored, but merely referenced in SAP BW. For example, as the InfoProvider you can specify a RemoteCube that obtains data from the operational SAP system.

When the corresponding task is executed, the system writes the values to the target area of the data basis according to your Customizing settings. The system derives the values for consolidation-specific characteristics (including, for example, the posting level and the default values for subassignments).

The task status is determined in the same way as in the other data collection tasks.

Example

In a decentrally managed corporation, the operational charts of accounts of the subsidiaries (FI-GL) differ to a certain degree from the consolidation chart of accounts of corporate headquarters (SEM-BCS).

Each subsidiary runs an upload into a BW InfoProvider.

In the Mapping section of the method Load from Data Stream you can map the characteristics and key figures of a subsidiary to the characteristics and key figures in SEM-BCS.

"Maps" created in this way can be reused - either in part or in their entirety - for other subsidiaries.

You use a dedicated data collection task to transfer the data from the InfoProvider of the subsidiary to the consolidation area of corporate headquarters.

 

 

 

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