SAP BI Inventory Management

By: Raj Kandula and Jitu Krishna
 Source: sdn.sap.com
Hi,
     Few points in Inventory Management.

BW Inventory movement cubes are initialised in two stages.
Firstly you load & compress the initial onhand stocks as of "todays" date;
secondly you load & compress the historic stock movements.
Once that's all done you do your regular delta loads to keep the info up to date.
The Marker is used as a reference point during compression to keep a running
total of what's onhand.
When you initially load "today's" onhands you UNCHECK the "No Marker Update" box, so that the marker records those stock levels.
When you load the historic stock movements you CHECK the "No Marker

Update" box, so that these movements do not affect the marker (as those
movements have already affected the current onhand level).
For the regular delta loads you UNCHECK the the "No Marker Update" box again so that the "future" movements net off the marker as they go.



Marker is used to reduce the time of fetching the non-cummulative key figures while reporting.

Refer
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/thread?messageID=4885115
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/thread?messageID=4764397
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/thread?messageID=4862257
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/thread?messageID=3254753#3254753
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/thread?threadID=422530
Inventory management
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/documents/a1-8-4/How%20to%20Handle%20Inventory%20Management%20Scenarios.pdf
How to Handle Inventory Management Scenarios in BW (NW2004)
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f83be790-0201-0010-4fb0-98bd7c01e328
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/thread?threadID=776637&tstart=0

•• ref.to page 18 in "Upgrade and Migration Aspects for BI in SAP NetWeaver 2004s" paper
http://www.sapfinug.fi/downloads/2007/bi02/BI_upgrade_migration.pdf
Non-Cumulative Values / Stock Handling
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/93ed1695-0501-0010-b7a9-d4cc4ef26d31
Non-Cumulatives
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/8f/da1640dc88e769e10000000a155106/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/80/1a62ebe07211d2acb80000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/80/1a62f8e07211d2acb80000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
Here you will find all the Inventory Management BI Contents:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/fb/64073c52619459e10000000a114084/frameset.htm

Hope this helps.