Data Transfer Methods 

EC-EIS and EC-BP provide several tools for filling your aspects with data. These include the individual and list data-entry as described in Transaction Data, and the tools described in Customizing:

• Data transfer from the same R/3 system (see Data Transfer from R/3)
• Data transferred from another R/2 or R/3 System (see Data Transfer from Other SAP Modules)
• Importing a file (see Other Types of Data Transfer)
• Aspect summarization (see Other Types of Data Transfer)
• ABAP/4 Query (see Data Transfer from R/3)
• Data transfer to the report portfolio (see Transferring Data to the Report Portfolio).

1. The transfer method controls the communication between the sender and receiver systems when transferring data from another SAP System (R/2 or R/3) (see Setting up Data Transfer).
2. The sender structure describes the data to be transferred so that the system can interpret it correctly (see Setting up Data Transfer).
3. The transfer rules define how the receiver structure is to be filled with the transferred data (see Setting up Data Transfer).
4. During the actual data transfer it is possible to combine sender structures in a package, schedule transfer runs in the background, to monitor these and to correct any errors (see Executing Data Transfer).

For more information see Example of the Types of Data Transfer.