COPA is a component of SAP’s controlling modules that deals with profitability reporting across various dimensions. It’s commonly referred to as SAP-COPA. It enables you to evaluate your company’s profit or contribution margin by market segment or by strategic business unit such as a sales organization or profit center. Profitability Analysis provides your sales, marketing, product management, and corporate planning departments with information to support internal accounting and decision-making.
In this presentation document, following SAP CO-PA topics in S/4 HANA are outlined;
- Key reporting dimensions of SAP-COPA
- Types of COPA
- Drawbacks of account based COPA
- Advantages of Costing based COPA (CBC) over Account based COPA (ABC)
- Dataflow in COPA
- SAP S/4HANA – COPA modifications
- Account based v/s Costing based COPA in S4/HANA
- Why Account based COPA is better than Costing based COPA in S4/HANA
- Advantages of Combined profitability analysis over Costing based profitability analysis