Automation of Consolidation

[Former Member]

Hi,

Are BPF's used for automating the Consolidation steps, like currency translations, Intercompany eliminations and COI.

If so, can you please throw more inputs on how to configure this and how the system behaves.

Thanks,

Chaitu

[Former Member]

The way I automate the consolidation processes / jobs is to put the tasks in a process chain and schedule .

Ravi Thothadri

[Former Member]

Please refer how-to doc in the below link

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/00971e51-27eb-2c10-479d-d1a0fa8f2cc0

BPF is just a tool to streamline consolidation process and it cannot automate it. Users can bypass active BPF instance and still do what ever they want in the consolidation process (depending on authorizations and work status locks).

[Former Member]

Thanks, How can we automate the BPF's and If we need to run the end to end consolidation process, can we still use the BPF's or run individual data Manager packages.

thanks,

Chaitu

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can use BPC DM schedules to automate data loads for consolidation. I dont see any reliable explanation why should you automate consolidation process. If you are using BPF then you need to define steps/sub-steps and attach DM packages as activities to it. BPF will streamline the consolidation process...meaning you can control/monitor the process using it (with some known limitations).