Parameter

Comment

Text

Freely definable description of the attribute. This is the description that is displayed in the ALV Grid on the Costs tab page of the Marketing Planner.

Used

If you select this indicator, the system evaluates this attribute in value distribution. It can be visible or hidden on the ALV grid on the Costs tab page.

Visible

This parameter only makes sense if the Used indicator is selected.

If you select this indicator, the attribute is visible in the ALV grid on the Costs tab page and you can enter selection values there.

If you want to distribute your costs to all products within a product group or product category, all your attributes should be visible except the Product attribute. This way, the user is kept from entering a product by mistake, and the system is free to determine the list of products that match the selection values.

No Objects

This parameter is only relevant for the Product Hierarchy and Customer Hierarchy attributes.

If you select this indicator, no products or customers are derived from the entries for this attribute, and the result on the trace log screen is on hierarchy level only. The costs are also distributed on hierarchy level only and there is no disaggregation to products or customers.

Product Hierarchy

This parameter is only relevant for the Product Hierarchy attribute. You enter the name of a product hierarchy.

Sales-Dependent

This parameter is only relevant for the Product Hierarchy attribute.

You can use a hierarchy that has been defined as being sales-dependent in product Customizing instead of the standard CRM product hierarchy. If you select this indicator, you must also select the Sales Organization and Distribution Channel attributes and define them as mandatory attributes.

With sales-dependent hierarchies, the system evaluates the Distribution-Chain-Dependent Category field on the Sales and Distribution tab page of the product maintenance screen (transaction COMMPR01). For the product to be valid, there must be an entry in this field and the category entered must belong to the sales-dependent product hierarchy.

Customer Hierarchy

This parameter is only relevant for the customer hierarchy attribute. You enter the name of a business partner hierarchy.

R/3 Hierarchy

This parameter is only relevant for the customer hierarchy attribute.

If you select this indicator, you indicate that the customer hierarchy was uploaded from the ERP system to the CRM system. These hierarchies have a business partner and a sales organization in each hierarchy node. If you select this indicator, you must also select the sales organization and distribution channel attributes and define them as mandatory attributes.

Required

If you select this indicator, the attribute is a required entry.

Column Number

Number of the column in the ALV grid that is to contain the attribute. You can freely define the sequence of the attributes in the ALV grid.

Display Text

If you select this indicator, the description of the attribute is displayed in a separate column next to the column with the technical name. The text of the description is the text that you specified in the Text field.

Text Only

This parameter only makes sense if the Display Text indicator is selected.

If you select this indicator, the description of the attribute is displayed; the technical name is hidden.

Column Width

Number of characters for the width of the attribute column in the ALV grid

Length Text

Number of characters for the entry in the attribute column. If this setting exceeds the column width, only part of the entry is displayed and you have to scroll to view the rest.

Aggregate

This parameter is only relevant for Business Partner, Product, and Product Hierarchy attributes.

If you select this indicator, product, business partner, product hierarchy data, or all of these are eliminated from the distribution result before it is sent to BPS for key figure planning. This can help improve performance by reducing the data volume.

Default Values

If you select this indicator, you can take over values from Organization Management into distribution as defaults. Example: When you enter a sales organization in the ALV grid, the default value for the distribution channel is displayed automatically.

Attribute

This parameter only makes sense if the Default Values indicator is selected.

Organization Management attribute, for example distribution channel.

Attribs

Used

Vis.

No Obj.

Prod. Hier.

Sales-Dep.

Cust. Hier.

Req.

Disp. Text

Text Only

Aggr.

BP

OK

OK

n/a

n/a

n/a

 n/a

OK

OK

OK

OK

BPH1

OK

OK

OK

n/a

n/a

OK

OK

OK

OK

n/a

BPH2

OK

OK

OK

n/a

n/a

OK

OK

OK

OK

n/a

BPH3

OK

OK

OK

n/a

n/a

OK

OK

OK

OK

n/a

CO

OK

OK

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

OK

OK

OK

n/a

DC

OK

OK

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

OK

OK

OK

n/a

SO

OK

OK

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

OK

OK

OK

n/a

MO

OK

OK

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

OK

OK

OK

n/a

PG

OK

OK

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

OK

OK

OK

n/a

PRH1

OK

OK

OK

OK

OK

n/a

OK

OK

OK

OK

PRH2

OK

OK

OK

OK

OK

n/a

OK

OK

OK

OK

PRH3

OK

OK

OK

OK

OK

n/a

OK

OK

OK

OK

PROD

OK

OK

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

OK

OK

OK

OK