New transaction in 5.1

[Former Member]

I was trying to do soem Release from DP to SNP, there I saw this new trnasaction

/SAPAPO/REL_TO_OLTP - Release from InfoProvider to ERP System

I coudl not udnerstand what does it mean by ERP system, Everything related to Datasource is from a BW source, and Target system is not clearly specified.

Could anyone help me to understand what this transaction is used for?

any answer is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

APO

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

instead of transfering from planning area to R3 using a transfer profile as it was possible till 4.0, this would enable you to release from an infoprovider to R3. This could be a remote cube or a real cube

So technically you can still take from a planning area but you could also use a backup real cube

This would mean you dont have to

maintain a planning book/data view

Create a transfer profile.

Create an activity.

Create a planning job.

Schedule the planning job

instead you just use this transaction. you loose a bit of control that you could have in terms of periodicity since you just have a horizon. (the period split profiles are not that flexible)

this is similar to releasing to SNP using a release profile vs releasing using MC90

[srinivas_krishnamoorthy]

The transaction exists in earlier versions as well. You can try going through the main menu to the transaction and right click to display the documentation

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm41/helpdata/EN/21/7b78c88efe4c1faf4450d7b84d8816/content.htm

Although I have not used the transaction, I am guessing it works similar to /n/SAPAPO/REL_TO_SNP (only forecast load is possible) except that behind the scenes it directly transfers Forecasts to R3 just like transfer profile. Check the function modules in the program by doing a search on "CALL FUNCTION" in this program and compare it with the one that helps do transfer to R3 using transfer profile.