Business Partner SAP S/4 HANA insights

Business Partner Approach in SAP S/4 HANA

The following blog post provides an insight into the SAP S/4 HANA system and how business partner setup must be done for migration.

I would like to share a glimpse of my current experience with SAP S/4 HANA migration.

Many of us always struggle where to start, how to start and finally ends with why to start

Computing rates using SAP HANA calculation view

When using SAP HANA for analytical purposes, it is interesting to have rates (interest, participation, benefit, etc) being computed by HANA, instead of BI tools, for performance reasons. It is very easy to use a calculation view to compute those rates.

Let's take an example the following calculation view, which is using one analytical view (called SALES) and one attribute view (called PRODUCT). There is a join in between the 2 views on PRODUCTKEY, and some objects have been added to output. I want to compute the benefit between the SALESAMOUNT and the TOTALPRODUCTCOST as a rate, the formula would be SALESAMOUNT/TOTALCOST*100 (to get a percentage) so I added the BENEFIT to the output of the JOIN; well this is a MISTAKE, let's see why!