You can use planning in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) to plan sales quantities, revenues, discounts, product costs, and so on, for any profitability segment. You can:

• Plan data either manually or automatically.
• Plan for one or more periods, or a for a longer timeframe
• Plan on the basis of calendar weeks
• Enter plan data for different plan versions to store different datasets for the same profitability segment
• Call up information during a planning session about sales prices from Sales and Distribution (SD) or product cost details from Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC)
• Define your own screen layouts for entering plan data to meet your organization’s requirements, and assign different layouts to different user groups
• Calculate plan values using automatic valuation (for example, planned revenues, discounts, and product costs based on the planned sales quantity)
• Process an entire plan or a large part of a plan
• Copy existing plan or actual data and revaluate it (for example, by increasing all values by 5%)
• Transfer CO-PA plan data to Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) to use the sales forecast as a basis for your production plan