Reporting Dimension

Create and manage reporting dimensions

To make group reporting more comfortable you can create reporting dimensions in the master data dialogue Reporting Dimensions. This allows to separate a group company from other companies according to specific characteristics. In the Reports tab there is a filter for every dimension that allows to sort the data.
Individual dimension characteristics can be grouped under certain reporting dimensions.
Example

• Region [Reporting Dimension]

• Europe [dimension characteristic]

• Asia
• North America
• South America

• Business Unit [Reporting Dimension]

• Automotive [dimension characteristic]

• Industry

When creating a new dimension characteristic please define the following attributes:

ID ID is used to uniquely identify a certain dimension. An ID can contain both numbers and letters; it is not a subject for subsequent change.

Name Every dimension needs to have a name. A subsequent name change is possible.

Type Here every dimension characteristic has to be assigned to one of the reporting dimensions. Reporting dimensions are managed in the Administration dialogue in the Master Data tab (described later in this manual). 

Workflow Reporting Dimension

First of all create reporting dimensions in the Administration dialogue.

After that create dimension characteristics in the Reporting Dimension dialogue.

After that reporting dimensions can be assigned to individual business units in the Company dialogue.