Project-related incoming orders and project-related open orders are two important profitability indicators that you can settle to Profitability Analysis.

For you to be able to use this function, sales order data must exist for the project, having been transferred either from the Sales and Distribution (SD) application or from an external system.

For these values to be updated in CO-PA, you must have the characteristic Sales order history (SORHIST) in your operating concern, and you must define a number range for the record type I.

Incoming sales orders for projects are found for each billing element on the basis of the project plan and updated for the project. A history is created for the incoming sales orders. There, the origins of the orders are divided according to the following categories:

• New order
• Changed order
• Rejection
• Changed plan

The open orders are determined from the incoming orders and the costs of sales and revenue that have already been billed.

You can analyze the costs and revenues of the incoming orders and the open orders in the CO-PA information system and update them in CO-PA. The values are updated by means of settlement according to the Processing type indicator.