Actual Costs 

The actual costs for your marketing project are allocated in SAP R/3, not in mySAP CRM, and from there they are transferred to SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW).

Prerequisites

A WBS element is assigned to the marketing project or to the marketing elements of the marketing project. For more information, see Connection to the SAP R/3 System.

Features

You have three different options for entering actual costs:

·        Account assignment of all actual costs directly to an account assignment object in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and periodic transfer of the delta to SAP BW. There, the actual costs can be displayed for the marketing elements.

For more information, see Account Assignment to Profitability Analysis.

·        Collect all postings to one WBS element and settle periodically to Profitability Analysis. After settlement, the actual costs that have been settled are transferred from Profitability Analysis to the SAP BW and can be displayed for the marketing elements.

For more information, see Account Assignment to a WBS Element and Settlement to Profitability Analysis.

·        Collect all postings to a WBS element and transfer the actual costs from the WBS element to SAP BW by extracting data from the SAP Project System.

For more information, see Account Assignment to a WBS Element without Settlement to Profitability Analysis.

 

Information on the Project System can be found in the documentation for SAP R/3 Enterprise Release 4.70  under SAP R/3 Enterprise Application Components -> Cross-Application Components -> Financials -> Project System

 

Information on using the Profitability Analysis component can be found in the documentation for SAP R/3 Enterprise Release 4.70 under SAP R/3 Enterprise Application Components -> Financials -> Controlling -> Profitability Analysis (COPA)