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Use

A report based on line items allows you to display the line items you have in Profitability Analysis. This type of report always reads the line items directly. Unlike the profitability report, it never accesses data from the segment level. In this way, you can analyze characteristics that are contained in line items but were locked out of the segment level in Customizing under segment-level characteristics.

Note

For more information on the terms segment table, segment level, and line item, see Database Tables for CO-PA Transaction Data.

It makes most sense to use reports based on line items when you analyze a relatively small amount of line items, such as when analyzing sales for a given day. More extensive analyses cause very long runtimes.

In contrast to line item lists, which offer you only a limited number of functions, reports based on line items allow you to use all of the navigation and display functions available in drilldown reporting.

The system reads the data according to the current structure. This means that the system selects and displays the characteristic values on the basis of the information in the profitability segment. If a realignment was performed after the data for a characteristic value was posted, the new assignment is displayed in the line-item-based report.

Note

This type of report is only available in costing-based Profitability Analysis.

Structure

You need to define special forms in Customizing for use with reports based on line items. All other report components, such as key figure schemes, variables, and authorization objects, are common to both types of report.

Reports based on line items let you use the following characteristics:

Caution

Note that the system requires a large amount of resources for these reports, since it has to read the line items directly. You cannot define them to use summarization levels or summarization data.
If you use this function frequently, you can improve system performance by having your system administration create an appropriate index to the table CE1xxxx or CE2xxxx.

 

See also:

Since the procedure for creating a line-item-based report is the same as that for creating a profitability report, it is recommended that you also refer to the section Defining Profitability Reports.

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