WP1 uses CO-PA to produce the P&L by product, market, customer split into CP / CNP and Amo. It is the source of data for : 

Business Financial Consolidation (BFC)

  • P&L statements and FC interfaces are produced through CO-PA (costing based version).
    • The list of value fields is aligned with BFC requirements
    • Main characteristics available are enterprise, product, commercial product, customer, …
  • CO-PA is fully part of the accounting system and therefore, the net profit must reconcile with FI. 
  • This reconciliation process is one of the main tasks of the closing procedure.

Premier Pilotage Economic (PPE)

  • Consolidated analysis of Gross Margin by product, customer, market
  • Facilities for Intra-business operations elimination

 

CO-PA

  • CO-PA is an hypercube (like a pivot table in excel) where figures are posted to value fields
  • Value fields are mapped to BFC accounts in the interface tables
  • 155 value fields are available in WP1

  • Values posted to the value fields are allocated to characteristics that represent as many potential axes of analysis by aggregating values on these characteristics
  • Depending on the origin of the data, the “depth” of allocation may vary
  • 64 Characteristics are available within WP1

  • Sub-totals and value fields build a P&L that can be obtained in real time through addition of documents sharing the same characteristics (product / customer /…)

  • This example shows an extract of ZZZ-SOLV00 report, but there are other reports showing various layouts (monthly, by quarter, …)

 

 

CO-PA provides P&L by market segment or strategic business unit such as enterprise, company code, plant..
CO-PA uses WP1 Master Data coming from the input (for example a billing doc) and the derivation rules
A derivation rule determines which characteristic values are derived from known characteristics and how these values are found
The derivation rules correspond to the CO-PA master data, those tables have to be maintained carefully

2 Comments

  1. Ana Silva

    And in which SAP table do we find the link from Value Field to BFC Heading.

    Thank you.

    1. Pedro Pinto

      Hello Ana Silva you can find it in SM30: ZWFAT110

       

      best regards