Product Value Chain Analysis Data

This Model Table function represents data concerning the product flow along the value chain. It serves as a detailed documentation of all steps involved in the production of finished products. This includes shipment and warehousing of input materials, production, and other activities. Various nodes and partner nodes are specified to represent entities and activities which are connected throughout the whole production process. This allows you to trace back material quantities and other consumption values to the point and procedure where they are created in the value chain.

The function defines the following fields:

• Product: You use this field to specify the type of product.

• Plant: You use this field to specify the production plant.

• Start Date of Fiscal Year Period: You use this field to specify the start date of the process in a fiscal year.

• End Date of Fiscal Year Period: You use this field to specify the end date of the process in a fiscal year.

• Group Currency: You use this field to specify a unit to describe the company’s group currency for recording transactions. This means to apply legal accounting rules set at group level.

• Company Code: You use this field to specify the code of the company.

• Profit Center: You use this field to specify the lowest granularity in a company or legal entity that generates profit.

• Node Unit: You use this field to specify the unit to measure the node quantity.

• Partner Node: You use this field to specify the partner node.

• Partner Node Type: You use this field to specify the type of the partner node.

• Partner Node Legend: You use this field to specify the legend of the partner node.

• Partner Material Number: You use this field to specify the material number of the partner node.

• Partner Company Code: You use this field to specify the code of the partner company.

• Partner Plant: You use this field to specify the partner plant to which the data record flows.

• Partner Profit Center: You use this field to specify the profit center of the partner.

• Partner Node Unit: You use this field to specify the unit of the partner node.

• Ledger: You use this field to specify the unique identifier of accounting standards of each transaction, for example, IFRS, U.S. GAAP, and others.

• Currency Type: You use this field to specify the type of currency used for the transaction.

• Valuation View: You use this field to specify a particular perspective from which a business transaction can be evaluated, for example, from an individual company, a group as a whole or a profit center within the organization. The value “0” is used for a legal view, value “1” for group view and value “2” for the profit center view.

• Material Type: You use this field to specify the type of material.

• Material Number: You use this field to specify a unique identifier for materials used as an input to a finished product.

• Node: You use this field to specify the node in the value flow.

• Node Legend: You use this field to specify the legend of the node.

• Node Type: You use this field to specify the type of the node.

• Partner Material Type: You use this field to specify the material of the node.

• Partner Valuation Class: You use this field to specify the class of valuation of the partner.

• Plant: You use this field to specify the production plant.

• Preliminary Value: You use this field to specify the total value of the product or plan that was earned during the period of its plan or production.

• Price Difference: You use this field to specify the difference in price.

• Valuation Area: You use this field to specify the organizational level at which materials are valuated, such as plant or company code level. When the valuation area is at plant level, you can valuate a material in different plants at different prices.

• Valuation Class: You use this field to specify the class of valuation.

• Valuation Quantity: You use this field to specify a means of categorizing the remuneration results. If a valuation result is not a currency amount, the corresponding unit may be assigned to the quantity in this field.

• Valuation Quantity Unit: You use this field to specify the unit to measure the valuation quantity.

• Exchange Rate Difference: You use this field to specify the difference between exchange rates.

• Actual Value: You use this field to specify the actual value.