Hi folks,It was difficult to select the appropriate title for my question.[b]Background:[/b] The business analyst specify the following report (this is the simplified version):[img]http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt313/pauldj54/reportspecs.jpg[/img]Also to simplify sopose that I have two "Fact Tables"- Purchase Orders:[img]http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt313/pauldj54/po.jpg[/img][b]- Inventory:[/b][img]http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt313/pauldj54/inv.jpg[/img][b]The challenge:[/b] I'm trying to build a cube in order to create a powerpivot report that looks like in the specs.[b]The drawback:[/b] the purchase orders table and the inventory table have both the Article and Country dimension. The problem arises when I want to include the time dimension in the pivot, because the inventory is not related to the time dimension.[b]Alternative 1: [/b]we added a dummy time id to the inventory table and then we could hide columns in the report with NULL values[b]Alternative 2:[/b] include the quantity or sold articles in the purchase order pro month as a calculated memberI'm not satisfy with this solutions and I think I'm missing something here from the theory.Any comment or suggestion about how to tackle this issue will be appreciated.Kind Regards,
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