What is CO-PA Profitability Analysis

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In CO-PA it is possible to ‘derive’ relationships for use in CO-PA. This could be useful for groupings that are only required for CO-PA reporting.



The derivation could be of entirely new elements or fields that are not being used elsewhere, or perhaps using an existing SAP field that is not being used by other modules. The derivation can be based on any or a combination of fields in the data that is being passed to CO-PA. A sophisticated example might be a derivation based on the SD Customer hierarchy.



It is not a good idea to try ‘overwriting’ values assigned in other modules as this would be confusing and complicate any reconciliation attempts.



See the configuration documentation on CO-PA for more information. Note that there are ’standard derivations’ that the system does too. We were talking here about creating new derivations