Question:
Hi,
Has anyone worked with data retraction in BPS? If yes, would appreciate if you could share what is the business requirements and motivation for using retractors?
Thanks a mil....
Answer:
well,
I have no experience of this. My guess could be a scenario where you in BPS have a model, that calculates eg. salary. This could be retracted in BPS.
Then you could also do sales planning in BPS and retract it into R/3 in CO-PA and then to Long-Term Planning, because all the logic about your production is allready in the R/3 system, so you don't have to recreated all that logic in BPS.
Retraction can be usefull, if there are som processes in the R/3 that use can benefit from instread off rebuilding a R/3 system i BPS. Remember that BPS is empty on logic and processes - it contains exambles only. R/3 benefits of a very strong and well-known datamodel and standard processes. You don't have to re-invent the wheel.
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Stinne
Answer:
Practical examples:
Sales planning in BPS the quantity can be used for Production planning (MRL - Long term planning).
Cost Center Planning in BPS retraction to R/3 to run all the nice R/3 reports.
I hope it helps,
Nelson
Answer:
If you have subsequent planning processes in R/3, such as Assessments or Distributions, you can retract your plan data from SEM-BPS and run these processes against that plan data.
Answer:
Hi,
I am currently using retraction here on my current project. There could be various busiess requirements for using retraction but our reuirements here is
1) to Plan Activity Type Rates in BPS and then send the rates to R/3 CO-PA to run Actual Allocations in R/3.
2) Plan SKF and retract those Plan to R/3 which again is used for certain calculations in R/3
The third secanrio could be where you do all yor Primary Cost Planning in BPS then retract the complete Plan to R/3 for Plan Allocations.
So as I said retraction could be used for various things. Hope this helps you understanding why retraction....?
Thanks & Regards,
Bhavesh Shah