1. User's Guide
  2. Getting Started with Profitability and Cost Management
  3. Profitability and Cost Management Dimensions
  4. Dimension Types
  5. Profitability and Cost Management Business Dimensions

Profitability and Cost Management Business Dimensions

The business dimensions in the model contain members that store information that is specifically related to the requirements of the business or organization

For example, product types, sales regions, manufacturing processes, general ledger, payroll, and departments.

At least one Business Dimension type must be defined by the user for the application. Business dimensions are created to describe elements within the model, such as business-specific departments, general ledger accounts, activities, locations, customers, and products.

Note:

In Management Ledger business dimensions, do not make shared members that reference non-level-0 base members. Doing so will cause the Copy POV and the calculation operations to fail because sharing with such references creates situations where Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management needs to write to non-level-0 members, which is not supported in Essbase for ASO cubes.

When the Oracle Essbase outlines are deployed, the business dimensions are created in the Profitability and Cost Management application as basic or generic dimensions, with no type. This feature enables Profitability and Cost Management to re-use the dimension member and hierarchies that were defined for other applications, such as Oracle Hyperion Planning.
Business dimensions must be created based on restrictions outlined in the Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management Administrator's Guide.

The Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management Administrator's Guide contains a discussion of business dimension metadata, should you require additional information.