Configuring SAP® ERP Financial and Controlling

CO-PA Planning

CO-PA planning provides lots of functionality to allow you to produce the type of planning your company needs. Some of the standard features include:

• The ability to copy actual values to a plan version
• The ability to copy values from one plan version to another plan version
• Top-down distribution to spread a plan to lower characteristic levels based on past history
• The ability to transfer plan data to Sales and Operation Planning (SOP) or do additional integrated planning

In terms of importance, CO-PA planning is as important as the actual reporting information. If you were to discuss the concepts of planning and budgeting with anyone in a corporation, you would find that it’s something that most people realize they need, but ...