Profitability planning (CO-PA) lets you plan sales quantities, revenues, sales deductions, product costs, etc. for any profitability segment. For example, you can:

• Plan data manually or automatically.
• Plan for one or many fiscal periods or continuously. Planning can also be done based on calendar weeks.
• Maintain plan data for multiple plan versions, making it possible to store several sets of data for the same profitability segment.
• Access data such as product prices from Sales and Distribution (SD) and product cost information from product costing (CO-PC), during the planning process.
• Create your own plan data entry screens. This allows you to adapt the layout to your own individual planning requirements. It also allows you to create different planning layouts for different user groups.
• Calculate planned values via automatic valuation. For example, you can determine revenue, sales deductions, and product cost data based on the planned sales quantity.
• Process an entire plan or a large segment of the plan at one time.
• Copy existing plan or actual data and then perform a revaluation, for example, taking last year’s plan and adjusting up or down by 5%.
• Transfer profitability analysis plan data to SOP to allow your production plan to be based on your sales forecast.