Objects are packed at your supplier. Information about the packing event, for example the IDs of the objects involved, the business step that was taking place at the time, and the associated document, is saved and sent to SAP object event repository in an event capture notification (ECN). For more information about ECNs, see the SAP Library for SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure under  SAP Solutions for RFID SAP Object Event Repository Integration XI Content for SAP Object Event Repository Event Capture Notification .

The repository receives the ECN and processes the data. The settings that you have made in Customizing determine whether and how the data is relevant for reporting in Business Intelligence (BI). In Customizing, you define data collection groups, which group data and connect events received in ECNs on the basis of the combination of business step and disposition code in the event. For each data collection group, you define the data collection group type, which specifies the logic according to which the data will be evaluated in BI. For more information about the settings you must make, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) in Customizing for Event Management under  Settings for SAP Object Event Repository SAP Business Information Warehouse Interface Make Settings for BI Data Collection Groups . Data collected in the data collection groups is saved in the extractor table /SAPTRX/PTABIEC, from where DataSources extract the relevant data.

In the BI system, you schedule regular data uploads from the repository. You can execute queries in the BI system. For information about the data flow from the repository to the BI system and about the queries that you can execute, see Analysis Scenario: Product Tracking and Authentication.