SAP Cloud Integration - Source and Target

 SAP Cloud Integration - Source and Target

Planning Calendars and S4 Integration

 

Use the Planning Calendars app to view the calendars that were integrated from SAP S/4HANA.

After the inbound integration with IBP, you can display the calendars that you assigned for production, transportation, shipping, and receiving along with their details in the Planning Calendars app. The IBP planning calendars were generated from the assigned calendars. In the app, you can also create new planning calendars based on calendars from your external system.

You can check the calendar assignments in the following apps:

·         Production calendars: View Locations and View Location Materials

·         Shipping calendars: View Location Materials

·         Receiving calendars: View Location Materials

·         Transportation calendars: View Transportation Lanes

Source: SAP.com

Order-based Planning Runs

 Order-based Planning Runs

Source: SAP

Unified planning process flow - IBP

 

Difference of IBP Version and Scenario

 

Difference of IBP Version and Scenario

Source: SAP IBP Online help

Object Type	Version	Scenario
Purpose	Alternate plans maintained over time.	On-the-fly “what if” scenarios
Created By	Administration user at time of configuration. (The number of versions is defined during configuration.)	Planner or end user (dynamically when using the system)
Created From	Planning Areas app, by choosing Versions, and then New.	IBP Excel add-in by choosing Create in the Scenarios group.
Change Method	Copy Customers copy data between versions. As a result, a version is based on a copy (or an overlay of multiple copies) and not on a collection of deltas. Changes to the base version (or to another version that you copied from) do not automatically “shine through” in the target version of the copy.	Delta The system keeps track of all changes to key-figure values as delta records inside the scenario. If, at the same time, changes are made in the base version, these are visible in the scenarios, unless there are conflicting scenario deltas, in which case those take precedence. This change method could be thought of as “shine-through” logic.

HCI Interview questions

How would you map a source system with target system in general to start with simple step by step based on your past experience?

A: what're the source systems you integrated?, what are the attributes and key figures, planning level, roots, 

HCI flow: Project->process->data flow->task

In ECC, what are the ways you have used to extract the data.

Table VS Extractor VS ABAP query(in HCI)?

In HCI, where do you write the program at? where you put in the code?

filter, join, preload and postload script, abap query, 

DataStore, view, map the fields,

HCI issues:

1. design phase, logic to be added, validation logic, ABAP syntax is not there in HCI, 

hard to validate the data, won't be able to debug, 

2. what's the challenge,

3. HCI task, executing, when running into an error in between, how would you handle it? full load, delta load?

you can run the job in IBP, or in HCI,

If in IBP via application jobs, template, it has sequence; if job fails, create a new job, run from failed step

Second way: trigger the job in HCI task, if job fails, rerun individual task, not the entire process, no need to create a new process.

ECC important tables: MARA, Process order table: 

VA02 sales order, 

Explain Root attributes?

How to Open Multiple Planning Areas on IBP Excel Add-on At The Same Time

Sometimes, different planning areas are created to facilitate different functionalities. But login and logout is quite a pain in the butt. Here’s how you can do it easily by opening up a new Excel instance.

For Opening Up another Excel Instance, Hold you ALT key, then click Excel (**remember to KEEP holding it until you see the window: "Do you want to start a new instance for excel?". After that you can release the ATL key)

Select Yes

Login

Check PA info

Repeat the same process and login to a different planning area

Enjoy!