Extraction of the Structure Data From Structured Articles 

Use

You can use this function to extract master data and transaction data for structured articles, for example, of a prepack.

Prerequisites

You are using SAP Business Intelligence with release status NW 2004s BI Content Add-On 2 or higher.

In Customizing for SAP ECC under Logistics - General® Material Master® Retail-Specific Settings ® Settings for Structured Materials ® Structured Material in Logistics Process, you have made settings for the purchase order and for goods receipt to determine if, and for which levels (for example, site), structured articles are to be broken down into their components.

Features

Master Data Extraction

SAP ECC uses a delta-capable extractor module (DataSource 0RF_STRUKTMAT_ATTR) to prepare the bill of materials information of a prepack (the attributes of a structured article) for transfer to SAP BI. The system transfers the bill of materials only for changed or newly created structured articles. If explosion of a structured article is not triggered directly by way of SAP Retail, then for the related logistical transactions (purchase order, goods receipt, goods issue), a document item is exploded on a quantity basis to the components of the structured article.

SAP BI transfers the following attributes:

·        Article number

·        Article category

·        Article number of the component

·        Quantity of the structured article

·        Unit of measure of the structured article

·        Quantity of component in base unit of measure

·        Base unit of measure of component

·        Quantity of component in sales units

·        Component sales unit

·        Date and time of structure change (time stamp)

Transaction Data Extraction

SAP ECCexplodes document items that contain prepack articles (or a different form of a structured article) into additional items for the components of a prepack. The extraction occurs by means of a standard implementation of method DATA_TRANSFORM of BAdIs RSU5_SAPI_BADI (BW Service APIs with Business Add-Ins). This implementation takes account of the Customizing settings mentioned under Prerequisites above.