Sunday, 18 August 2013

All About LO extractors Part1


                                                            LO DATA SOURCES
The LO stands for Logistics system. In SAP BW, a group of data sources for specific modules have been provided as standard component (business content).  The selection, extraction and the maintenance of these data sources  are deemed to be very complex, hence, they are shipped as standard component  in BW. Of course, these data sources can be enhanced and modified according to our need.

The following screenshot shows all the modules which are considered as LO in SAP:
T-code:  LBWE

If a particular node is expanded, we can see three columns being populated: structure, Update and Update mode being populated.
Structure: Clicking on the maintenance button opens up the extract structure as shown below:


















The fields on the left side are being populated, whereas the fields on the right side are available in the pool and can be added to the left side by selecting and using the arrow.

Clicking on the data source opens up the following screen:



In transaction RSA2, we can see a lot of information about the data source:

















The following screenshot shows the various settings of the extractor.

















The “fields” tab contains all the fields that are to be transferred to BW:














The extraction method can be any one of the methods listed below:








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