The point of valuation groups together functions of Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) that are assigned to the same valuation strategy.
Profitability Analysis recognizes four points of valuation:
01 Realtime valuation of actual data
02 Periodic valuation of actual data
03 Manual planning
04 Automatic planning
All application functions that transfer data to CO-PA are assigned to one of these points of valuation. For external data transfers, points of valuation 01 and 03 are used for actual and plan data, respectively.
If a valuation strategy calls for valuation using material costing, the system uses the point of valuation to control which cost estimate is read and how the cost components are assigned to value fields in CO-PA.