

It is worth understanding that there are actually two ways that organizations can move to SAP HANA:

Drill-Down Reporting (common in other applications, such as CO-PA, but rarely used for the material ledger).Material Price Analysis (the acceleration of the select statements needed in transaction CKM3).Period End Closing (the acceleration of some steps in the costing run).In the context of Material Ledger, SAP HANA covers the following use cases: General Information for Material Ledger on SAP HANA

Furthermore it refers to the settings made in transaction HDBC and provides some general recommendations. This article describes the new FCML tables and the new transaction FCML_FILL (report FCML_FILL_REPORTING_TABLES). for the drilldown reporting in a format that can be read quickly. These so called FCML reporting tables contain the Material Ledger data that is relevant e.g. Therefore new Material Ledger database tables have been introduced. Material Ledger Accelerators powered by SAP HANA provide new possibilities for fast and efficient reporting. The idea of the Material Ledger accelerators is to move the main Material Ledger tables to SAP HANA in order to accelerate reporting and the period end close and to aggregate huge amounts of data on the fly.
