50 Fixed CO-PA Profitability Analysis Elements

We are in the blueprint stage of a new SAP implementation using the Life Sciences express solution. Our consultants advised us that there are 50 SAP fixed characteristics in CO-PA for Profitablity Analysis and we have the ability to add up to 50 non-fixed characteristics. The list of the 50 fixed characteristics that our consulting team provided to us appeared very strange. Many of them appear to related to the airline industry. For example:
KMATYP - Aircraft type
KMDEST - Desitnation
KMFLTN - Flight number
KMFLTY - Flight type
KMIATA - IATA season
KMOPDY - Day of operation
KMORIG - Departure location
KMLEGS - Route segment
After questioning the provided list, we have been assured that we have been provided is the correct list of 50 fixed characteristics for all SAP implementations. We are looking for validation that these value are indeed part of the correct list. If not, we would greatly appreciate receiving the correct full list.
Thank you,
Carrie

Hi Carrie,
I vaguely remember that CO-PA (Profitability Analysis) module was initially developed/used for Airline industry to analyze the contribution margins. I'm not 100% sure on this, think i read it somewhere. SAP has provided these characteristics and derivation rules (logic to derive the characteristic for a transaction) by default. In my experience, i have always seen clients using at least 10-20 custom fields in CO-PA, since these are client specific we need to create additional derivation rules (either table lookup/Move/Derivation rules/Enhancements). Fields from Material master and customer master tables are commonly used for analysis in CO-PA.
Best Regards,
Venkata Ganesh Perumalla

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