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 Source and Target Fields

Use

You enter the source and target fields for derivation in a derivation step.

Structure

Source fields

You can use the following operating concern fields as source fields:

  • All fixed characteristics

  • All user-defined characteristics

  • All characteristics copied from SAP tables or from the field catalog

  • All characteristics copied from customer hierarchies (CO-PA HIE01 to HIE10)

  • All quantity unit fields (CO-PA *_ME)

Generally, you cannot use technical fields from the costing-based line item for derivation. This is because these fields are not usually available when characteristic derivation is performed. No technical fields are located at the segment level (table CE4xxxx, where xxxx is the operating concern). Those fields that are at the segment level serve as the basis for characteristic derivation. (For background information on tables in Profitability Analysis, see the section Database Tables for CO-PA Transaction Data .)

Only the following technical fields are made available for use in characteristic derivation:

  • The sender cost center (CO-PA SKOST) in cost center assessment and cost center activity allocation.

  • The sender process (CO-PA PRZNR) in process assessment and process activity allocation

  • Cost element (CO-PA KSTAR) for direct postings from financial accounting, for actual settlement and in assessment and actual activity allocation

In addition, you can use as source fields those indicators that lend themselves particularly well in step conditions. This applies to the following:

  • The plan/actual indicator (GLOBAL PLIKZ) with actual value "0" and plan value "1"

If you use this indicator, you can, for example, define derivation steps that only occur in planning.

  • An indicator to show whether Profit Center Accounting is active (GLOBAL PCAACTIVE), using the value " " for inactive and the value "X" for active

If you create your own derivation steps for populating your profit centers, you can set this indicator as a condition.

  • An indicator using the values " " and "X" to show whether characteristic derivation is being called up from Realignments (GLOBAL REALIGNMENT_MODE)

If certain derivation steps are not to be performed in the case of realignments or if they are only to be performed in the case of realignments, then you can set this indicator to be called up by the system in the condition.

It can sometimes be useful to be able to draw up and keep intercompany profits/losses for the derivation of characteristics. The following temporary fields enable you to do this:

  • Temporary field 1 (GLOBAL USERTEMP1)

  • Temporary field 2 (GLOBAL USERTEMP2)

  • ...

  • Temporary field 8 (GLOBAL USERTEMP8)

Finally, you can also choose from the characteristics in the variant configuration (configurable materials):

  • Characteristics in the variant configuration (VCONF NAME)

If sales order items are entered with configurable materials, then you may often wish to determine characteristic values for CO-PA characteristics independently of the values in the variant configuration. You can also create derivation steps that have characteristics from the variant configuration as source fields.

When defining the source fields, you can enter as a source field name all the characteristics from the variant configuration system that have character-based or numeric names.

Note Note

The possible entries function for the source fields does not list all the characteristics in the variant configuration. Instead, only the substitute field VCONF ? is offered.

The values entered for the variant configuration are not checked for compatibility with the derivation logic. This means that the system does not reject any potentially invalid characteristic values in the variant configuration!

End of the note.

The system only executes a derivation step containing characteristics from the variant configuration if a sales order item contains a configurable material with which these characteristics were originally entered into the configuration.

Example Example

Within the variant configuration itself, you define the characteristics COLOR and SIZE with which material 1000 is valuated.

For the profitability report, it is of interest to you whether a standard color or a special color is involved and which size category the material has. You therefore define in CO-PA the characteristic WWCOL (color type) with the characteristic values "standard" and "special" and the characteristic WWSIZ (size category) with the characteristic values "small", "medium" and "large".

You can then create, for example, the following derivation rules:

Derivation rule: Specify color type

Source field: VCONF COLOR

Target field: CO-PA WWCOL

Rule values:

RED = standard

BLACK = standard

WHITE = standard

APRICOT = special

MAGENTA = special

Derivation rule: Specify size category

Source field: VCONF SIZE

Target field: CO-PA WWSIZ

Rule values:

0 – 9,9 = small

10 – 19,9 = medium

20 – 100 = large

End of the example.

Target fields:

You can use the following fields as target fields for derivation:

  • All user-defined characteristics

  • All characteristics copied from SAP tables or from the field catalog

  • All characteristics copied from customer hierarchies (CO-PA HIE01 to HIE10)

  • Only the following fixed characteristics:

  • Customer number (CO-PA KNDNR)

  • Product number (CO-PA ARTNR)

  • Business area (CO-PA GSBER)

  • Profit center (CO-PA PRCTR)

  • Sales organization (CO-PA VKORG)

  • Distribution channel (CO-PA VTWEG)

  • Division (CO-PA SPART)

  • Plant (CO-PA WERKS)

  • All quantity unit fields (CO-PA *_ME)

  • Temporary fields (GLOBAL USERTEMP1 to GLOBAL USERTEMP8)