Collecting Data for a Product Drilldown
Use
You collect data for a product drilldown when you want to analyze aggregated data in drilldown reports.
Procedure
To perform data collection for the product drilldown:
- Choose Accounting
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Controlling ® Product Cost Controlling
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Cost Object Controlling.
Choose the relevant application components, for example
Product Cost by Period, and then Information System
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Tools ® Data Collection
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Product Drilldown.The screen Data Collection for Product Drilldown appears.
Enter the following data:
You can select a special plant from which the data is to be summarized. If you leave this field empty, all plants in the Controlling area will be summarized.
- A summarization time frame
SAP recommends summarizing across all open periods in Financial Accounting.
- Turn on the indicator Delete values outside time period if desired.
- If you want to use parallel processing for the data collection to reduce runtimes, enter a server group and change, if necessary, the maximum number of tasks and the data records per task.
- Turn on the indicator for background processing if desired.
- Choose Execute.
The system brings up an overview of the completed data collection.