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:

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:

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

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

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

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:

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

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.

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!

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.

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

Target fields:

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