Defining Summarization Levels 

Use

By defining Summarization Levels, you can store the data in CO-PA in presummarized form. This makes it possible for the system to access the data more quickly.

Activities

You define a summarization level by specifying which characteristics you want to summarize. When you save the summarization level, the system generates two tables in the ABAP Dictionary: the "key table" and the "totals table". These tables only contain the fields required for that particular summarization.

Each summarization level can be created for fixed characteristic values. For example, if you only want to analyze the data for one plant, you only have to store data for that plant in the summarization level. That way you save the memory space which would otherwise be taken up for the other plants in the tables of that summarization level.

Theoretically, you can create up to 5000 summarization levels. However, the more you define, the more memory you will require and the longer it will take to update the summarization levels.

 

Try to get by with as few summarization levels as possible. For example, you might check once a month whether you need additional summarization levels, or whether you have any which are no longer used and can thus be deleted. This lets you save memory and optimizes the updating process for your purposes.

 

For more information about how to define summarization levels, see Define Summarization Levels in the Implementation Guide (IMG).

 

Status of Summarization Levels

Each summarization level has a status which tells you whether it can be used. You can use any summarization levels which have the status "active".

The following statuses are allowed: