Record types in CO-PA tell you what type of business transaction the data transferred to CO-PA comes from.
These transactions include billing (record type 'F') or incoming sales orders (record type 'A') in Sales and Distribution (SD), allocation of cost center costs (record type 'D'), and settlement of orders or projects (record type 'C').
For data transferred from SD, the record type signifies the point within the logistic chain at which the data was transferred to Profitability Analysis.
The record types 'X', 'Y', 'Z' and numbers '0' through '9' are reserved for data transferred from external sources.
You can analyze your data in Profitability Analysis separately by record type.
You can enter data for all record types in manual planning.