The characteristics represent all the dimensions that you can use to analyze your CO-PA data. They are derived either from the customer and material master and SD partner roles (such as sales employee) or from other characteristics.

This tab page provides detailed information on order and invoice quantities, revenues, sales deductions, and detailed product cost components.

A dialog box asks you which amount you would like to display.

Select Display Sales Order, then choose .

The system displays the complete flow of business events that have occurred.

Note that, using reporting, you have just drilled down from a summary analysis from the industry to a single billing document (CO-PA line item), and from there to the original sales order. This shows the quality of information available from an integrated system.

Choose until the Execute Profitability Report Plan/act/var. cum screen appears.

The detailed product list appears.