SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW)

Characteristic values of a characteristic in a tree structure.

Example: A hierarchy for cost centers that are arranged in cost center groups.

In reporting, hierarchies for characteristics can be used in the following ways:

• As a display hierarchy for a characteristic, if you want to display the characteristic as a hierarchy
• As a way of selecting specific characteristic values, if you want the characteristic to be restricted as a hierarchy or a hierarchy node

Hierarchies can be loaded into the BW system or created in the BW system for hierarchy basic characteristics. Hierarchies can be used across different InfoProviders.