Business Process and System Design - CO-PA Derivations . This article outlines the end to process flow and system design for SAP CO-PA Derivation - Enhancement.
Process Attributes
SAP Profitability Analysis module also called as "CO-PA" or "PA" is used for analyzing
Business Process
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CO-PA Characteristics Derivation
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SAP Module
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CO-PA Module
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SAP Core Area
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Finance
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Business Process
Code
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ERA22A15
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SAP
Version
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Cloud and On-premise Versions
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Presented
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www.simplefinancesupport.com
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Description:
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SAP COPA module provides functionality to
analyze Profitability by multiple market Segments through Characteristics. Transactional
data captures Characteristics based on the available Customer Master, Product
Master attributes as referenced. All customer related attributes such as
Customer Country, Customer Region are populated into COPA tables for analysis.
These are called automatic derivation. SAP also provides a mechanism to build
derivation based on specific requirements
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Transaction
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KEDR
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Business Roles
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Financial Analyst
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Inputs / Triggers:
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Sales Transaction – Goods Issue and Invoicing
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COPA Planning Functions
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SAP Journal Entry
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Outputs:
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Characteristics are derived as per derivation
rules
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Data is posted with derived characteristics
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Data is available for analysis
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Flow:
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Sales à
Finance à
Analysis
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Remote Consulting
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Business Training
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Requirements:
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Ability to derive COPA characteristics based on
certain other attributes
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Derive characteristics in all Data Flow options
for COPA
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Test Scenarios
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Perform Data flow transactions and check the
derivation
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Introduction
SAP Profitability Analysis module also called as "CO-PA" or "PA" is used for analyzing Profitability by different dimensions/segments. Profitability by Customer, Product or combination of Customer, Product and Region etc., Characteristics are defined from fields from Customer, Material/Product and derived from Master Data and Transactional data at the time of transaction processing.
Derivations
Characteristics values are filled at the time of transactional processing based on available attributes. For example,
Realignment is performed with Realignment Run and one run can combine multiple Requests. The job execution is at Run level and system update the status of Run - New, Scheduled, Running , Cancelled or Successful. The Run can be scheduled as background job with immediate or with specific date
Realignment Request
Requests are created within a Run. Every request combines set of selection conditions for selecting specific data for conversion. Logical set of data change is combined within a specific Request
Business Case - Demo
Following example shows the step by step execution of Realignment. Two characteristics -Material Group 1 and Material Group2 . Material Group1 is realigned based on Derivation rule after changing the Material Master Data and Material Group 2 is changed directly without subjected to Derivation
End to End Process
Check Line Item Data in COPA (KE24)
Realignment Tool provides to adjust COPA line item data in SAP for Profitability Analysis based on current structure of Characteristics. In S4 version of SAP, Data in GL table - ACDOCA also updated to have reporting adjusted automatically
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Following example shows the step by step execution of Realignment. Two characteristics -Material Group 1 and Material Group2 . Material Group1 is realigned based on Derivation rule after changing the Material Master Data and Material Group 2 is changed directly without subjected to Derivation
End to End Process
Check Line Item Data in COPA (KE24)
Summary
Realignment Tool provides to adjust COPA line item data in SAP for Profitability Analysis based on current structure of Characteristics. In S4 version of SAP, Data in GL table - ACDOCA also updated to have reporting adjusted automatically
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