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Fiscal year to normal calender days

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Hi All,

Here is the requirement from the client that, to change the calender from existing fiscal year to normal calender days. So please suggest me what will be the effects of changed it in SAP APO DP.

Thanking in advance.

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jagannadhb
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Hi Smitha,

If the calendar is changed then every key figure changes including all macro books, as your buckets are being changed. And if you are using regular calendar, you should take into consideration, the split weeks. Like, for example July 1st is Tuesday and 31st is Thursday, both mid of the weeks.

If you are changing calendar, you have to change the SBP, changing which will lead to data loss. Even your backup will not work as you will have backup data but will not be able to load back to planning area as the buckets have changed.

Most of the decision steps in process chains will get changed.

There might be much more effect, but as far as my understanding, it is not advisable to change, unless you have'nt gone live yet.

Regards

JB

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Thanks Jagan, for your kind reply.

This is a support project and already system is live from past 6 years, now the client wants to change the calender from fiscal year to calender days.

Please let me know your comments.

Thank you.

Former Member
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SN,

It depends upon which calendar the client is forcing you to change.

If you are talking about a calendar associated with a time bucket profile, you need to find out where it is used, and then reevaluate everything from the affected planning book(s) upward and alter as necessary:  All planning books, all Macros, all business processes, all business cadences, all reports.

If you are talking about a calendar associated with a storage bucket profile, you might as well consider that this is a new implementation; you are not really changing anything, you are recreating new stuff that will 'look like' the old stuff.  This means all jobs and process chains, all affected BW objects, all data flows, all programs and variants; all data sources; must be reevaluated and possibly changed.  You will have to ensure that you have a way to repopulate all data wherever it exists, because most of it will be destroyed in the change.  I personally would not call this a 'support' project.

Best Regards & Good luck,

DB49

jagannadhb
Active Participant
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Hi Smitha,

If the project is already go live, then there are some pointers to consider before changing the calendar.

Firstly, it is required to take a backup of the planning area.

While extracting from Planning area, create a transformation so that the data is extracted based on the new calendar so that you can re load based on the same.

Secondly, you have to de-initialize the planning area to change the SBP and then once you re-initialize the planning area, load the data from backup cube to the active planning area

Thirdly, check all objects of process chains and macros for the horizon as per the new SBP and adjust accordingly.

Regards

JB

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Thanks DB for your reply,

Fiscal year calender(special posting periods) is assigned to storage bucket profile as well to time bucket profile also. We are generating forecasting data on monthly bases into monthly buckets.

Can you please tel me still will it be effecting the data.

Thanking you in advance!

Reagrds

SmithaN

Former Member
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SmithanN,

Yes.  Data will be affected.  You will need to test test test test before moving anything into production.

Best Regards,

DB49

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Thanks for your reply Jangan and DB

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Hi All,

Got the final solution for the requirement of fiscal year calender changing to calender days.

There is no requirement to change the assignment of storage bucket profile, planning area, time bucket profile and finally planning books.

Just need to change the fiscal year posting periods to calender days in /nob29 t-code.

By doing this it get converted into calender days.

Thanks for all your support.

Regards

SmithaN


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