ABAP REPORTS: Sample SAP BW Report

The first step to access SAP BW reports is to start the BEX Browser. You will be prompted for your user name and password assigned by your SAP BW administrator.

Once SAP BW accepts your user name and password, the BEX Browser displays all reports and analytical applications for which you are authorized. On the left are the channels. Each channel contains one or more reports.

Figure below shows that you are in the General Purpose Channel; the title also shows the channel name. This channel has two clusters. Clusters are used to logically group a set of reports that address a similar subject area. This example uses Customer and Employee channels.

To launch an analytical application from the BEX Browser, simply right-click the report text, Sales Distribution by Employee, as shown in figure below. This action gives you several options, such as Execute, Preview, and Change. Select Execute to open the selected report.

Here you can drill down by product hierarchy as shown below or some other navigational attributes. You can also normalize data in several ways to meet your analytical needs.