Question Re: Z tables within IBP Control Tower in Supply Chain Management Q&A

Z tables within IBP Control Tower

Former Member — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:09:02 GMT

Hello,

Below is one of the questions and an answer related to integrating data from ECC Z tables into IBP using HCI.

Is there an option to create custom(Z) tables inside IBP? If answer is NO, then where would HCI store this data that is extracted from ECC Z tables.

Q: Z tables - If the master data (Product & Customer) is stored in custom database tables in ECC, can HCI read these data?

A: Yes, HCI can read the from custom Z tables (via the ABAP layer, no database access needed).

Re: Z tables within IBP Control Tower

Parveen-Kumar — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:26:46 GMT

Hello Praveen

You cannot create custom(Z) tables in IBP. The data extracted from ECC Z-tables should be inserted to the core master data or key figure tables,

The source can be a Z-table in ECC, but target has to be the core tables in IBP.

Thanks

Parveen Kumar

Re: Z tables within IBP Control Tower

Former Member — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:31:22 GMT

Thanks for the clarification.

Re: Z tables within IBP Control Tower

Alecsandra — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:33:54 GMT

Hi Praveen,

HCI is not designed to store data. You can use HCI to connect to on premise systems in order to extract and transform data before sending it to IBP's staging tables.

If you are looking for mapping table functionality and creating such a table in ECC would trigger a long approval workflow, then you could read from ECC and have a lookup into a flat file.

Regards

Alecsandra