Friday, March 24, 2017

ERA22A41 - CO-PA Derivations

ERA22A41 - CO-PA Derivations - Enhancement

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
CO-PA Characteristics Derivation
SAP Module
CO-PA Module
SAP Core Area
Finance
Business Process Code
ERA22A15
SAP Version
1610 
Cloud and On-premise Versions
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Description:
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

Transaction
KEDR
Business Roles
Financial Analyst
Inputs / Triggers:
1.       Sales Transaction – Goods Issue and Invoicing
2.       COPA Planning Functions
3.       SAP Journal Entry
Outputs:
1.       Characteristics are derived as per derivation rules
2.       Data is posted with derived characteristics
3.       Data is available for analysis

Flow:
Sales à Finance à Analysis
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Business Training
Requirements:
1.       Ability to derive COPA characteristics based on certain other attributes
2.       Derive characteristics in all Data Flow options for COPA
Test Scenarios
1.       Perform Data flow transactions and check the derivation


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)



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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