Can I make my Profitability Analysis (COPA) Planning in SAP as simpler as my Cost center or Revenue Planning in SAP BPC?
Agile Answer: Yes,
you can.
SAP BPC's design
is based on an Amount (Keyfigure), whereas SAP COPA can have multiple
value fields (Keyfigure's).
How do you load the COPA
multi-Keyfigure in BPC? The key word to use in your transformation file is
MVAL.
Dimension
=*MVAL(keyfiguretype1|dim_mem1||keyfiguretype2|dim_mem2||keyfiguretype3|dim_mem3)
For reporting, you need
to expand this Dimension on same axis as your key figure.
Challenges with COPA data in BPC
- I like COPA, but the only limitation for business users
in planning scenarios is 'inflexible' layouts. Unlike BPC reports/input
schedules, COPA reports/planning layouts have to be configured. Which
means a IT resource is required.
- Users can plan quantities (or revenue) and COPA
can derive the revenue(or quantity) based on standard price or other
measures. To achieve similar results enhancements are required in BPC.
- If you get past #2, now some users would like to copy
BPC data to COPA. How do we do it? It’s a complex development with a BAdI.
We have helped clients
to clear all the above barriers to create COPA like scenario in BPC.
Do contact us and we will be glad to help you.
