Purpose

You connect SAP Event Management (SAP EM) to SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI) to transfer your supply chain event management-relevant data to SAP NetWeaver BI. In this way, you can evaluate this data in SAP NetWeaver BI analytically.

For example, you can create key figures on:

The punctuality of your supplier

Adherence to planned shipment and delivery times

Customs processing

You use the following as data sources:

The event handlers and their related information can be found in the following objects:

Info parameters

Control parameters

Event handler header

Event handler extension structure

The expected events

The stored process flow for the expected events

If required, unexpected events that have been reported

Integration

The following figure provides an overview of integrating SAP EM with SAP NetWeaver BI :

You have made the general settings for extracting data in Customizing for SAP EM. Examples of these settings include the update mode and configuring if and when the SAP NetWeaver BI upload is automatic.

You want to transfer data belonging to an event handler to SAP NetWeaver BI.

SAP EM determines the event handler type of this event handler. The event handler type determines the SAP NetWeaver BI profile. You use this profile to define the extraction level, for example, the event handler header level and event level as well as mapping event handler and event information into the extraction structures of the related extraction level. After the data has been transferred, you can determine and query key figures in SAP NetWeaver BI .

Prerequisites

You have configured SAP EM for the initial and the delta upload:

You have defined an event that uses the activity to trigger the SAP NetWeaver BI upload in SAP EM.

You have specified that the event should be posted automatically for the delta upload. This ensures that the SAP NetWeaver BI upload is updated automatically.

You have executed Customizing for SAP NetWeaver BI in SAP EM by:

Creating an SAP NetWeaver BI profile with the required extraction level

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for SAP EM under Event Management → SAP Business Information Warehouse Interface → Define SAP BW Profiles .

Assigning the SAP NetWeaver BI profile to an event handler type

For more information, see the IMG for SAP EM under Event Management → SAP Business Information Warehouse Interface → Process for Extracting SAP BW Data .

You have configured SAP NetWeaver BI.

For more information, see the IMG for SAP EM under Event Management → SAP Business Information Warehouse Interface → Process for Extracting SAP BW Data .

Process

You define the following in Customizing for the SAP NetWeaver BI profile:

The source structures and tables in SAP EM that contain the data that you want to transfer to SAP NetWeaver BI.

You want to send data for the events Departure and the Arrival at Customer for your service provider to SAP NetWeaver BI, for example. You specify the event handler header /SAPTRX/EH_HDR and the table for expected events /SAPTRX/EH_EXPEV as your source structures.

How the source structures and tables are mapped onto the extraction structures.

The event that you have defined to trigger the SAP NetWeaver BI upload calls a function module that evaluates the actual data for each event handler and fills the extraction structures in accordance with the Customizing settings you made for mapping.

If you defined an automatic delta upload in Customizing for mapping, the data is updated automatically in SAP NetWeaver BI.

SAP provides DataSources that are defined using extraction structures.

SAP EM updates the DataSources at the following times:

Initial upload using a setup table

Delta upload directly using the delta queue

After you have updated the DataSources, the data is available to SAP NetWeaver BI.

The system maps the DataSources one-to-one onto the InfoSources.

SAP NetWeaver BI provides the corresponding InfoSources.

SAP NetWeaver BI maps the InfoSources one-to-one onto the operational data storage (ODS).

SAP NetWeaver BI collects the ODS data in InfoCubes that are delivered with visibility processes.

You can use queries to evaluate the data in InfoCubes. SAP delivers example queries with the visibility processes .

The following figures provide an overview of the process flow:

For more information about the individual BI objects, see the SAP Help Portal under SAP NetWeaver → BI Content → Supply Chain Management → Supply Chain Event Management.