Actual Costs

The actual costs for your marketing project are allocated in SAP ECC, not in SAP CRM, and from there they are transferred to SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BI).

Prerequisites

A WBS element has been assigned to the marketing project or to the marketing elements of the marketing project. For more information, see Connection to SAP ECC.

Features

You have three different options for entering actual costs:

Account assignment of all actual costs directly to an account assignment object in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and periodic transfer of the delta to SAP BI. There, the actual costs can be displayed for the marketing elements.
For more information, see Account Assignment to Profitability Analysis.
Collect all postings to one WBS element and settle periodically to Profitability Analysis. After settlement, the actual costs that have been settled are transferred from Profitability Analysis to the SAP BI and can be displayed for the marketing elements.

For more information, see Account Assignment to a WBS Element and Settlement to Profitability Analysis.
Collect all postings to a WBS element and transfer the actual costs from the WBS element to SAP BI by extracting data from the SAP Project System.
For more information, see Account Assignment to a WBS Element without Settlement to Profitability Analysis.

Information on the Project System can be found in the documentation for SAP ECC under Start of the navigation path SAP ERP Central Component Next navigation step Financials Project System (PS) End of the navigation path .

Information on using the Profitability Analysis component can be found in the documentation for SAP ECC under Start of the navigation path SAP ERP Central Component Next navigation step Financials Controlling Profitability Analysis (COPA) End of the navigation path .