COPA through BI

Hi Gurus,
Is it possible to derive COPA through BI without activating it? If this is possible, what are the basic requirements? and how is it done?
Regards,
Makrand

Thanks for the reply Eli,
I mean to say, without activating COPA can we
1)Use the characteristics, value fields in BI
OR
2) Acticate the COPA related CUBES in BI to fetch the information.
regards,

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ajay,
KE4SFI, is only to transfer FI documents ( directly posted in FI) to COPA, so, this is not required for us.
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1. No, there is no such report possible
2. Same as above.
3. Yes, its possible.,. You need to have those chars in COPA
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Material cost estimation in COPA

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I have question regarding how details of cost Estimate will flow to COPA Report.
Variance of Product cost will flow in COPA through PA Transfer Structure and its flowing on my report. However, I want to flow COGM (break up of the cost components) on COPA reports.
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By activating Material Ledger without knowing about it and without knowing it's relevancy to the client's business process....YOU DID A BLUNDER MISTAKE
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Reconciliation of costing based COPA and account based COPA

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I want reconciliation statement of A/c based copa and costing based copa through SAP. we have not configured any account based copa reports. now we are manually doing the reconciliation. Please tell me the configuration.
Thanks & regards
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HI
Costing-based Profitability Analysis is the form of profitability analysis that groups costs and revenues according to value fields and costing-based valuation approaches, both of which you can define yourself. It guarantees you access at all times to a complete, short-term profitability report.
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COPA Assessment

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We have some costs like salaries,travel & tour ,Admin and Sales & Marketing Costs etc .
As you all know that the above said costs are posted to relevant cost centers and now we want to allocate the costs to COPA through assessment as we don't have the option of Distribution in COPA.
I need some help on the following points:
1.While defining the CYCLE for COPA ,in the header screen of Cycle,there is a field to enter TF Basis (i.e. 1 -Costing Based
and 2- Account based) .I have selected 2 (account based) and allocated the costs.When we allocate the costs by account based,then we can't see the these allocated costs in the Costing based COPA Reports.
Is there any option for allocation of costs in both the types of COPA ,so that we can get the costs in both the types of COPA Reports.
2.In the Sender / Receiver tab,we have so many receivers like Products,Product Group,Customer ,Customer Group ,Sales Orgn and Plant Etc.
If we select all the above receivers for assessment,then the system throws a message that maximum 9999 receivers are possible for assessment.
How to solve this issue or should we asses the costs to only one receiver.
If we asses the costs to only one receiver ,let us take materials group,then it is not possible to see the allocated costs for other receivers like product wise,product group wise,customer wise,customer group wise and plant wise in the drill down report,when we run KE30.
Please help me on the above said points .
Regards
Su

Hi,
about point 1: this indicator refer to the tracing factor. If you want to allocate costs based on value fields, you shall set costing based, if you want to allocate cost using accounts as driver, you shall set account based.
about point 2: can you try to split the process in two step, first assessing the costs to product families and then to product using top-down distribution (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/7a/4c3ccf4a0111d1894c0000e829fbbd/content.htm).
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Allocation of Costs from Cost center to COPA

Hi
We are booking costs to a Cost Center with reference to a Primary Cost Element. However, in month end, the same cost has to be transferred to COPA. One of the Characteristics in COPA is also Profit Center.
The issue is that we can allocate costs from Cost centers to COPA through Assesement Rule, system requirement is for Assesement Cost Element, which is a secondary Cost element. In such a case, the PCA Balances, after execution of Assesement cycle are shown with the Secondary Cost Elements.
In a case, I have booked costs of INR 100000 in a cost center 103007 against a Primary Cost Element 423101. Since Profit Center 103007 is assigned in Cost Center 103007, the Profit Center Line Items will show a balance of INR 100000 against cost element 423101 for Profit Center 103007.
After this at month end, we need to allocate costs from Cost Center to COPA. But the requirement is that after allocation also, the balances should be shown against Cost Element 423101 for Profit Center 103007
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Sanil

Hi Sanil
That is not possible.. There is no "Distribution cycle" available for COPA.. In COPA you can have either an Assessment Cycle or an Indirect Act Allocation or a Template Allocation...
I dont know about template allocation as I have never used that, but gut feel says even that wont serve the purpose...
One work around is you allocate from Cost Center to an Internal Order using Distribution cycle... Then Allocate from IO to COPA using assessment... In order to use IO as sender in allocation cycle, use note 605281
At best, what you can do is to use an Allocation Structure instead of one single assessment cost element per Segment... Using an Alloc Str, you can map, say, GL Accounts for Basic Salary, DA, HRA to one Secondary cost element... This way, create logical groupings of GL accounts and map to multiple secondary cost elements
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Regards
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