SRM business content

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I'm trying to figure out why SAP has installed a BW inside the SRM system.

I have succeeded in replicating data sources into this internal BW, but I can't find any SRM business content.

It seems like there is no business content.

Our basis guy told me that in the SRM installation, there is no special BI_CONT component like in a regular BW installation.

What am I missing here ?

Why I can't find the SRM business content in this internal BW ?

Any clarifications and explanations will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance, Amir.

[edwin_harpino]

hi Amir,

what's your srm version ? i checked srm 4.0 in system, no internal bw.

can you find the datasources ?

rsa5

0BW_DATASOURCES BW DataSources ROOT Application Components

...

0BBP Business-to-Business Procurement

0BBP_CONTR BBP Purchase Contracts - Single Documents

0BBP-IO Master Data for Business-to-Business Procurement

0BBP_BID 0BBP_PROC

can you execute rsa1 ?

have following business content infocube, ods ?

rsa1->business content->left panel 'object type', middle panel 'infocube'-'select objects', are there 0bbp_c01 and 0bbp_c02 ?

for ods, also 0bbp*, e.g 0bbp_bid ...

hope this helps.

[Former Member]

Hello A.H.P and thanks for your reply,

My SRM version is 4.0 and I can execute all the regular BW Transaction codes like RSA1, RSA5, RSA6 and more.

I can find these data sources you have listed and I can even replicate it into the internal BW.

The problem is that in Tcode RSA1 under business content (like you described) I can't find any of the objects which concerned with the SRM application.

Thanks again, Amir.

[Former Member]

Amir

Did you check this link?

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/3a/7aeb3cad744026e10000000a11405a/frameset.htm

Thanks

Sat

[Former Member]

Hi Sat,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes I have tried this link.

The problem is that in Tcode RSA1 under business content I can't find all the objects which listed in the link you had attached.

Thanks again, Amir.

[edwin_harpino]

hi Amir,

what objects can't be found ? for scm that have internal bw, we did install BI_CONT, think the same for srm, try ask basis to install ?

hope this helps.

[Former Member]

AHP, can you please look into my COPA question?

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi A.H.P,

I can find only the technical and statistics objects.

I can't find the objects which concerned to SR.

My basis guy tells me that the BI_CONST special add on is not part of the SRM installation.

Thanks, Amir.

[edwin_harpino]

hi Amir,

yes, bi_cont is add-on for bw, since you have internal bw and need business content, you may need it.

are you going to use this srm internal bw for bw reporting ? (data modeling, extract data to this srm, etc ?) if not so then having the datasources is sufficient to extract srm data to your central bw. hope this helps.

[Former Member]

Thanks A.H.P,

As I said before our basis guy told me that BI_CONT is not part of the SRM installation.

Can it be installed anyway on the SRM server ?

The internal BW inside SRM is 3.5 and our central BW is 3.1

Sap recommends to use SRM 4.0 with BW 3.5, that's why I wanted to use the internal BW for the SRM reporting needs.

In our central BW I can find the SRM business content but I assume it's does not contain all of the application content of SRM 4.0.

Thanks, Amir.