This newly expanded and updated book is your comprehensive reference for all of the most relevant information on the CO-PA module. Here, you’ll find all the information you need for a successful CO-PA implementation, which is presented with a process-oriented approach for explaining the fundamentals of profitability management as it relates to the features and functionality of the CO-PA module. The author implements a cost-based scenario throughout the book, so that both cost-based and account-based scenarios are addressed.This book provides you with a hands-on, technical configuration guide to walk you through planning, issues with transferring actual and master data, reporting, and more. New content includes updated technology changes, as well as new integration topics and coverage of SAP BusinessObjects. Based on reader feedback, you’ll find more coverage on the topics you requested to help with your consulting, configuration, and integration activities.
Highlights:
Working with pre-delivered templates
Operating concern configuration
Reporting
Actual value flows
CO-PA Best Practices
SAP Profitability Model
Costing- and account-based CO-PA
CO planning framework
Top-down distribution
SAP BusinessObjects Analytics
SAP BusinessObjects tools
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (BPC)
SAP in-memory computing and HANA
Find step-by-step configuration and implementation highlights for the CO-PA component
Integrate CO-PA with SAP BW, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC), and more
Uncover new trends for in-memory computing and the SAP HANA platform
2nd edition, updated and expanded
Marco Sisfontes-Monge
Marco Sisfontes-Monge has worked in the following sectors: Automotive, Logistics, Software, Gas & Electric, Discrete and Process Manufacturing, Retailing, and Financial Services. His clients include John Deere, Matsushita, Schneider Electric, Sara Lee, Conair, Pacific Gas & Electric, New York Power Authority, Hyperion, and Peoplesoft. He is the author of the SAP PRESS book, CPM and Balanced Scorecard with SAP.
Controlling Profitability analysis SAP Financials Cost based scenario Account based scenario CO-PA report painter ASUG Financial Communities SIG