Uploading D&B Data for Marketing Universe

Purpose

The upload process for D&B data is typically repeated on a six-monthly or quarterly basis. This ensures that your company makes decisions on the most up to date market data.

Prerequisites

You have completed the preparatory steps, see Implementing D&B Marketing Universe for SAP BW.

Process

The process of uploading D&B data is simplified significantly by using process chains. The process chains delivered by SAP enable the automatic upload of D&B master and transactional data.

The following chart gives an overview of your tasks during the whole process.

For a description of the individual steps, see:

· Uploading Data from OLTP Systems

· Rationalizing Customer and Business Partner Master Data

· Storing D&B Data on an Application Server

· Uploading Initially Delivered D&B Files

· Uploading Repeatedly Delivered D&B Files