Copying Planning: Procedure (SAP Library - Activity-Based Costing (CO-OM-ABC))

Copying Planning: Procedure

Procedure

To copy planning, proceed as follows:

Choose

Planning ® Planning aids ® Copy planning

Select the reference to be copied and the target to be copied to.

You can copy as follows:

Within fiscal years, periods, versions, and business processes

Note

The reference and the target must differ in at least one of the selection criteria above – you cannot copy plan values onto themselves.

Between different fiscal years, periods, and versions

The reference and the target can differ in all of the above selection criteria, or at the very least in only one.

Example

You can copy the following data:

Reference				Target
Version	From Period	To Period	Year	Version	From Period	To Period	Year
0	1	12	1995	1	1	12	1995
0	1	12	1995	0	1	12	1996
0	1	6	1995	0	7	12	1995

The data from a single business process, a business process group, or all business processes
The data from a single planning transaction or from all planning transactions

You can copy either the plan values of all planning transactions or only those from individual transactions (for example, just plan quantities and statistical key figures).

You can specify the following target:

Version
Fiscal year
From period, To period
Business process
Group

Edit the following parameters:

Reset target data and overwrite

Caution

If you set this indicator, the SAP System deletes any existing data in the target. Check first whether you really want to overwrite or delete existing target data.

Create detailed list of copied data

The SAP System creates a list of all the data records copied, along with the planning transactions you selected for copying.

Copy in background or on-line

If you have a great deal of planning data to copy, create a background job to run during periods of low system use.

Caution

To speed up copying and to avoid unnecessarily loading the SAP System, keep the following in mind:

Select only those transactions actually planned. For example, if you did not plan any statistical key figures, deactivate the corresponding planning transaction selection.
Copy in a background job. This allows you to take advantage of periods with low system loads.
Avoid copying that overwrites existing data. This keeps the amount of data to be read for resetting as low as possible.
Abstain from creating a detailed list of records copied if you do not necessarily need one. The basic list (without copied records) always appears in any case.

Note

There is little difference in runtimes between copying a single period and copying multiple periods or an entire fiscal year.