This document provides an overview of SAP Business Warehouse (BW) and how to generate reports from BW. It explains that BW allows flexible analysis of large amounts of business data and creation of dynamic reports. Data is transferred from SAP servers to the BW server, where it is stored in high-performance databases called infocubes. Users can then generate reports on various business functions like logistics, sales, finance, and more by logging into BW and using the Business Explorer tool within Microsoft Excel. The training covers logging into BW, selecting variables to filter reports, and generating sample customer master reports.

1. SAP
Business Warehouse (BW)
Prepared & Presented By Abi
(CS, SD, BW Functional Consultant, LE
India)
123/04/2014

2. Business Warehouse (BW)
Objective of this Training
Make the beginners in BW for a clear
understanding of BW Reports & the
technical data behind BW
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3. Business Warehouse (BW)
Objective of BW Reports
To reduce the SAP Server dependency in
fetching various business reports
The SAP users can extract reports on various
Business Functions via BW
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4. Business Warehouse (BW)
The training covers:
1. Brief introduction to BW
1. Explanation of how to fetch reports from BW
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5. What is BW ?
BW (Business Warehouse) is a system that lets
users flexibly analyze large amounts of
business information, and create dynamic
‘reports’ that cover key business
measurements
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6. How BW works ?
BW functions inside Microsoft Excel,
using a tool called “Business Explorer” or
“Bex” for short
SAP BW uses high performance databases
called “Infocubes” that present results in
less than a minute to complex queries
that would require hours of processing
from similar data in the source ERP
systems
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7. More about BW…
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8. How Data Transfer to a BW Report
As shown in
the diagram,
SAP Server
transfers
data to BW
Server
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9. Few about BW Technology…
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10. Reports in BW
SAP Users can generate the following business
functions Reports from BW in an SAP
Implemented Organisation
Logistics
Analysis
Sales
Analysis
Finance
Analysis
Production
Analysis
Quality
Analysis
Master
Data
Analysis
Costing
Analysis
Inventory
Analysis
Basis
Analysis
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11. Log in to BW…
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12. Log in to BW…
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Your User Id

13. SAP BW SCREEN
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14. SAP BW Customer Master Report
Customer
Master
Reporting
This Report
fetches the
different data
related with
customer
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15. SAP BW Customer Master Report
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16. An Excel file named “Bex” – “Business
Explorer” Opens…
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17. Click on the Icon Add-Ins
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18. Click on Bex Analysis Toolbox
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19. Select Values for Variables
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20. How to add a new Variant from the variables?
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21. We can add all the variables one by
one & Save ….
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22. Add & Save the Variables
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23. Report Generation-1st Step
Now
system
fetched a
Report
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Customer Details are not
disclosed for confidential
purpose

24. Report Generation-2nd Step
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Customer Details are not
disclosed for confidential
purpose

25. Report Generation-3rd Step
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Customer Details are not
disclosed for confidential
purpose

26. Report Generation-4th Step
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Customer Details are not
disclosed for confidential
purpose

27. Report Generated as per the Customer Group
Here we
can see
the
Customer
Group of
the
customer
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Customer Details are
not disclosed for
confidential purpose

28. If we require the Report with Incoterms of the customer…Again select the
customer codes, then right click and follow like in below diagram…
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Customer Details are
not disclosed for
confidential purpose

29. Reports can be expanded as per our requirements…
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Customer Details are
not disclosed for
confidential purpose

30. Few Sales Reports in BW
We can fetch different Sales related reports from BW
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31. SAP BW
ANY QUESTIONS?
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32. SAP BW
For any queries please contact
abiskm@gmail.com
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33. SAP BW
THANK YOU
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