In this activity, you define update characteristics and specify which ones you want the system to use to select profitability segments in template allocation.
Allocated costs in CO-PA are posted to the update characteristics (and to the characteristics derived from them). Update characteristics are used to locate cost drivers.
When you carry out the dynamic process allocation, the selection characteristics appear for selection. This enables you to limit the number of characteristic values.
Delta postings to characteristics are no longer possible once the latter have been changed.
You can define other update characteristics which can then also be considered during profitability segment determination, but dependently of the characteristic values relating to the update characteristics defined under "New Entries". You do this in the transaction Maintain Process Template Determination and Other Update Characteristics. This makes sense if, for example, the characteristic "Customer" is to be included in operating concern determination for a specific customer group. (Example: if an update should occur at customer level whenever the characteristic "Customer group" receives the value "Major customer").