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 |