民丰纸业profitability analysis.docVIP

CO-PA gives you the ability to analyze your profitability on many different segments and characteristics. It acts like an information receptacle that can be analyzed from many different angles and viewpoints. CO-PA combines the elements of gross margin reporting found in the SD module with other relevant expenses that you decide to bring over to CO-PA the give you a better view of profitability below gross margin for products, customers, sale organizations, or any other of the many characteristics by which you can report in CO-PA Costing-based vs. account-based CO-PA There are two different ways in which CO-PA can capture and hold data-costing based and account based. The operation concern is the central tenet of CO-PA. The operating concern is the structure that you define to hold data for CO-PA and to use as the basis for reports. An operating concern can costing-based, account-based, or both forms of CO-PA simultaneously. Both form use characteristics to store data about the information that is updated in CO-PA. Characteristics comprise such things as customer, sales office, sales group, material number, strategic business unit, company code, profit center, sales employee, controlling area, product hierarchy, and so on. Characteristics will be covered in more detail in the section on operating concern development. The main difference in how the two methods store data involves value fields. Value fields group together similar values and quantities－a good way to think of value fields is as large groupings of accounts or cost elements. Value fields will also be covered in more detail in the section on operating concern development. Account-based CO-PA updates values in accounts－the same accounts(cost elements) that are used in FI and the rest of CO. Costing based is the original method that was created for CO-PA updates and groupings. It is important to understand the document flow in SD; the normal document flow is as follows: Sales order Delivery (the delivery cre