COPA and SD

Hi,
My client needs to have COPA thru FI postings only as they want to bring the details of SD in a legacy system - customized.
Option 1 -The Co code contains many Plants and the saels are flows thru SD and COPA . only one plant whose SD system is in Legacy .They want to bring COPA details thru FI transactions and post it at weekly intervals. Is it workable
Options 2 . Cretae the plant as Co code and get the GL data and upload Journal with COPA details. ( COPA with FI only) Under theis circumstances Can I have COPA i a co code w/o SD and MM . ust FI transactions only. I am not familiar with option 2. Looking for yr comments and prefer to hav yr experience pl
Regards,
Chitras

Hi,
Can you post some details that would help ?
Thanks,
Sai.

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Symptom
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As of PlugIn Release PI2004.1 (Release 4.0 and higher), a new logic (generic delta) is used during the delta process. Old DataSources can be converted to the new logic. New DataSources automatically use the new logic. With the new logic, the time stamp administration is located in the Service-API and no longer in the Profitability Analysis.
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Reason and Prerequisites
Administration of the delta process for CO-PA DataSources partly occurs in the OLTP system. In particular, the time up to which the data was already extracted is stored in the DataSource control tables (old logic).
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1. There should only ever be one valid initialization package for a DataSource. Data inconsistencies may occur between BW and OLTP if, for example, you schedule an Init for various selections for the same DataSource and data is posted between the individual initializations to the Profitability Analysis. The reason for this is that each time the time stamp for the DataSource is initialized in the OLTP, the current value (minus the safety delta, see note 392876) is reset. Records from a previous selection are therefore no longer selected with the next delta upload if they were posted before the last initialization run with another selection.
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