Example

Example 1: Switching from the drilldown to the initial list

You have carried out a vendor analysis in the Purchasing Information System. The initial list shows a list of the vendors that meet the selection criteria you specified. You wish, however, to evaluate a list of the materials for the same selection criteria. You can use the function Switch drilldown and thus easily change the view of the data and generate a list of the materials . The list currently displayed on screen is then replaced by a list of materials, i.e. the old initial list of vendors is replaced by a new initial list of materials.

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Example 2: Switching from the drilldown to the drilldown list

You have carried out a vendor analysis in the Purchasing Information System. The initial list shows a list of the vendors that meet the selection criteria you specified. You now dill down on the vendor "Import and Export" according to the characteristic "material" (characteristic drilldown ). The drilldown list shows all those materials bought by the vendor "Import and Export". You now want to find out how the key figure "purchase order value" is distributed over the individual periods, not only for a specific material, but taking into account all materials used by the vendor "Import and Export" that are displayed in the drilldown list. You can perform the function Switch drilldown on the characteristic "period" and thus generate a list that shows the distribution over the periods at this aggregation level. A simple characteristic drilldown by period would, in contrast, only show the distribution over the periods for one particular material.