Structures 
Structures
Purpose
To use Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), you have to create structures first. The possible valuation levels are determined in the creation of structures.
Features
To create the structures, you need to define the
operating concern as well as the characteristics and value fields belonging to the operating concern.From a technical point of view, you are actually creating different tables. To find out how these tables are related to each other, you can consult the section
Database Tables for CO-PA Transaction Data.
In the operating concern, you can define your structures so that the revenues and sales deductions (= value fields) that are shown correspond to the respective levels (customer, customer group, sales office, and product (= characteristics)).
Integration
The
master data is closely linked to the structures in Profitability Analysis. Master data consists of the individual values that the characteristics and value fields can take. The combination of the latter specifies the valuation level. In other words, the combination of particular characteristic values forms the actual analysis object, called the profitability segment.The following graphic illustrates how the different concepts relate to one another:
