The planning application Profit Center Analytics in Retail: Store Planning is made up of four InfoCubes in BW and of different planning objects (for example, planning areas and functions). The planning profile Profit Center Analytics in Retail: Planning (4RTL0001) is also used to give the administrator a homogenous view of the planning objects that are relevant for Profit Center Analytics during Customizing in the planning environment.

You can call up all layouts and planning functions for Profit Center Analytics in Retail: Store Planning from the SAP SEM-BPS Planning Environment. You can also use a user interface based on planning folders and an HTML user interface. Even with an interface of this kind, the flow logic is stored in SAP SEM-BPS. This guarantees that planning is executed in exactly the same way as in the standard interface.

The following user-defined planning functions are used:

• Formula calculation
• Copy
• Delete
• Planning sequences

For data entry and display, the planning application Profit Center Analytics in Retail: Store Planning uses prepared planning layouts from manual planning.

The data basis delivers the following SAP BW InfoCubes:

• Profit Center Analytics Retail BW: Reporting Transaction Figures (0RTL_C01)
• Profit Center Analytics Retail BW: Reporting Statistical Key Figures (0RTL_C03)
• Profit Center Analytics Retail SEM: Planning Statistical Key Figures (0RTL_C04)
• Profit Center Analytics Retail SEM: Planning Transaction Figures (0RTL_C02)