Hello Ian,
We are using IP solution for project wbs elements and internal orders to various receiver object.
The approach we followed is the following -
1) We did use ECC for the sender receiver assignments.
Our rationale for using the same are below -
a) Plan settlements are easier to maintain in ECC as the cycles have the % basis for different kinds of costs .
b) We used standard retraction for PS and IO. Once the plan settlement happens we extract the data back from ECC to the plan cubes and report at the final receivers with the secondary cost elements and partner objects.The actuals hit the final receivers too.
c) Our budget maintenance happens in IP and we do the retraction which is standard and our ECC system utilizes plan vs actual reporting as the users need the budget data for period end closing as well.
My recommendation is to utilize the planning cycles in ECC rather than creating the same in BI. The reason is the cycles would be similar to actual just that the version is a zero version.But we could argue that is the complex spread of actuals necessary for budget , I would say NO but in such cases we created simple asessment cycles that spread 100% of budget dollars to the same final receivers where the actuals hit.
I can speak more to this.Please let me know if this was helpful.
Tx,
Madhu
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