Performing Periodic Valuation (SAP Library - Profitability Analysis (COPA))

Performing Periodic Valuation
Purpose

To be able to perform periodic valuation, you need to assign a valuation strategy to the point of valuation 02 (Actual periodic valuation). You do this in Customizing under Master Data ® Valuation ® Valuation Strategy ® Define and Assign Valuation Strategy.

You must define valuation using the material cost estimate for the stated point of valuation. For this, you can use either an access key to the standard cost estimate for Product Cost Planning or the actual cost estimate from the Material Ledger. If you want to see exactly which values were found using periodic valuation, you need to assign the components of the cost component split used to separate value fields for periodic valuation in Profitability Analysis.

You can find the function for performing periodic valuation in the CO-PA application by choosing Actual postings ® Period end closing ® Periodic adjustments. The system takes you through the following screens:

On the initial screen, you can enter the record type and the time range of the line items you want to valuate.

On the Periodic Valuation: Characteristics screen, you can specify characteristic values to limit the selection further. An asterisk (*) for a characteristic means that the system selects all the values of that characteristic.

On the Periodic Valuation: Value Fields screen, you can explicitly select the value fields you want to valuate.

If you need to process a large amount of data, execute periodic valuation in a series of successive partial runs (by valuating each period separately, for example).

To keep the system workload down, you should execute periodic valuation in the background.

When you perform periodic valuation, make sure that the valuation strategy that is assigned to the point of valuation 01 (Realtime valuation of actual data) remains available. This is the only way to ensure that the correct differences to the original values are found.