Profit analysis in CS

For a client implementing CS module and already having MM,SD and PP modules in place, should we use COPA, result analysis, Activity Based Costing or any other module in CO to analyse their profitability product-wise, customer-wise and item-wise?

Hi Maya,
Only COPA will give you profitability by customer, product, contract etc. Results and ABC are used for WIP calculation and labor costing. You can also use BW for profitability.
Thanks
Ashish

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