COPA, how to derive Profit Segment as a characteristic

In COPA I created a characteristic u201CSegmentu201D to report on the Profit Center Segment. I am trying to use Define Characteristic Derivation, T-code KEDR to derive and populate the Profit Center Segment characteristic.
I did the following: use u201CTable Lookupu201D and link it to table CEPC.
1) In the source field the following 3 fields appear and I mapped them to COPA fields:
     CEPC-PRCTR Profit Center
     CEPC-DATBI Valid To Date
     CEPC-KOKRS Controlling Area
2) In the "Assignment of table fields to target fields" section I mapped the CEPC-Segment field to the COPA "Segment" characteristic .
The problem is it does not derive the Segment!
Am I doing something wrong?
Is this the best way to determine the Profit Segment?
Have you seen this before?
Any help will be highly appreciated!!

Ajay, thanks for your reply.
The setup is exactly as you suggested, playing more with it I also added some fixed conditions and it is still not working. I did the analysis before and did it again upon your recomendation but unfortunately no sucess. The profit center=segment entries are in CEPC (checked with se16)......
Here is the log from the analysis.
    0067 Table lookup         Determine Profit Center Segment
Derivation was not carried out. Reason: Source field contains no value.
   Check condition for step
   Origin     Field Name     Description                Content                  Op. Constant                 Result
   GLOBAL     USERTEMP1      Temporary field 1 (user-de                          <   12/31/9999               Fulfilled
   CO-PA        KOKRS              Controlling Area           GLOB                     =   GLOB                     Fulfilled
   CO-PA        PRCTR               Profit Center              0000010111               =   0000010111               Fulfilled
   Source fields
   Origin     Field Name     Description                Content                  Comments
   CO-PA      PRCTR          Profit Center              0000010111
   GLOBAL     USERTEMP1      Temporary field 1 (user-de                          Source field contains no value

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