Displaying the Characteristics Hierarchy 

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Accounting ® Controlling ® Profitability Analysis ® Master Data ® Characteristic Values ® Define Characteristics Hierarchy

    Transaction Code

    KES3

    If you are executing a profitability analysis transaction for the first time since logging on, the Set operating concern dialog box appears.

  2. Enter the following data:
    3.

    Field

    Data

    Operating concern

    IDEA

    Type of Profitability Analysis

    Costing-based

  3. Choose .

    4. This dialog box is shown only once during the session. Once you have made your selection, the system always selects the given operating concern and the relevant type of profitability analysis.

  4. In the dialog box, choose Yes.
  5. Enter the following data:
    6.

    Field

    Data

    Characteristic

    Sales employee (select)

    Hierarchy variant

    100

  6. Choose Display.

    7. You see a list of sales employees grouped into different levels according to experience. Level I is for the most experienced employees whereas level IV is for new employees. You can use the report to generate ratio figures, for example, about the correlations between revenue and sales experience.

    The six-character fields are for the nodes that divide up the hierarchy and cannot be posted to. The eight-character fields can have values posted to them.

  7. Choose until the overview tree appears.