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Explain Profitability Concept?

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Dear all,

How data will flow from Sales to COPA ?

If i want profitability then how my structure will amtch with FICO

Plz send me some details about the same.

Thx & Reagrds,

PM

Edited by: PM on Feb 19, 2008 10:59 AM

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When transferring data from SD to CO the system finds the relevant operating concern by following

the assignment sequence Sales organization >Company code >Controlling area >operating concern.

Evaluations are carried out by comparing costs and revenues and take place within an operating concern at the level of profitability segments. A profit is calculated for each profitability segment.

There are two procedures for profitability analysis: costing-based and account-based.

Both procedures can be used in parallel. However, before drill-down reporting you must set it to either costing-based or account-based.

Order processing is the focal point of SD activities and contains three principle stages:

Order entry, delivery with goods issue, and billing.

In costing-based profitability analysis, data is transferred to CO-PA as soon as an order is entered.

The system generates a line item with a profitability analysis document for each sales order item. In

the same way, the billing data are also transferred online. The system generates a line item for each

billing item.

In account-based profitability analysis, data is transferred to CO-PA when it is posted to FI from SD.

This means that when the financial accounting documents are generated for goods issue and in

billing, the system creates line items in CO-PA and transfers the data to the accounting valuation

base. Data is not transferred when a sales order is entered because nothing is posted to FI at that

stage.

CO-PA calculates the profit for a certain profitability segment by transferring data from SD.

The profitability segment is defined by certain characteristics and characteristic values and these

determine what should be evaluated.

These

characteristic values can be freely defined. They are taken from the header or the item in

the sales document.

The real evaluation of profitability segments takes place using key figures (evaluation sizes).

In

costing-based profitability analysis, the key figures are the quantity and value fields such as

price, quantity, discount, and weight. This data comes from SD documents.

In

account-based profitability segments, the evaluation takes place in account groupings. The

data is taken from the relevant accounting documents in FI.

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