SAP Process Design Experts and Resources ERA22A41 - CO-PA Realignments.

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ERA22A41 - CO-PA Realignments May (2)

Business Process and System Design - CO-PA Realignments . This article outlines the end to process April (1)
flow and system design for SAP COPA Realignment. March (2)
February (2)
ERA22A41 - CO-PA Realignments
Introduction ERA22A40 - SD Partner Functions in CO-PA
SAP CO-PA module is used for analyzing Profitability by different dimensions/segments. Profitability
by Customer, Product or combination of Customer, Product and Region etc., Characteristics are
defined from fields from Customer, Material/Product and derived from Master Data and Transactional Contact for Consulting Services
data at the time of transaction processing.
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Over a period of time, the original definitions of Characteristics may change and Reports based on
change characteristics can not be compared with old values unless old values are converted or
adjusted to new definitions. Realignment is a tool in SAP to perform the conversion of old line item Email *
data to reflect new definitions of characteristics. This is very important for Management Reporting

Realignment Message *
Realignment is process of adjusting characteristic values in COPA retrospectively for line items based
on conversion conditions. This is inbuilt functionality for both types of Profitability Analysis - Costing
Based and Account Based.
Realignment Run
Realignment is performed with Realignment Run and one run can combine multiple Requests. The job
execution is at Run level and system update the status of Run - New, Scheduled, Running , Cancelled
Send
or Successful. The Run can be scheduled as background job with immediate or with specific date
Realignment Request
Requests are created within a Run. Every request combines set of selection conditions for selecting Search Right Papers
specific data for conversion. Logical set of data change is combined within a specific Request
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Business Case - Demo

Following example shows the step by step execution of Realignment. Two characteristics -Material
Group 1 and Material Group2 . Material Group1 is realigned based on Derivation rule after
changing the Material Master Data and Material Group 2 is changed directly without subjected to
Derivation

End to End Process

Check Line Item Data in COPA (KE24)

Following KE24 report shows that line items with Two characteristics -Material Group 1 and
Material Group2 . having no values. After performing the Realignment the values are expected in
these two fields based on the conditions defined in Request
Check Material Master (MM03)
Material Master view Sales Org2 provides Material Group 1 to Material Group 5 fields. The original
values is shown as empty. This Material group1 would be updated with OTH

Update Material Master (MM02)

Material Master view Sales Org2 provides Material Group 1 to Material Group 5 fields. The original
values is shown as empty. This Material group1 would be updated with OTH

Define Realignment (KEND)

As of 1610 Realignment is made available again. During version 1511 the Realignment was not
available
Define Realignment (KEND)
As of 1610 Realignment is made available again. During version 1511 the Realignment was not
available

Realignment Request

Request Selection
Conversion Conditions Realignment with Date

Conversion Conditions Realignment without

Date
Two Requests under one Run

Process the Realignments

Process the Realignments Job

Realignment Job Overview

Check Line Item Data in COPA (KE24)

Following KE24 report shows that line items with Two characteristics -Material Group 1 and
Material Group2 . having values changed. Material Group1 is changed only after a specific date
and Material Group2 is changed across all line items.

Restore (KEND)

Restore functionality is available for cancelling the realignment run, if there are any data issues
generated
Summary
Realignment Tool provides to adjust COPA line item data in SAP for Profitability Analysis based on
current structure of Characteristics. In S4 version of SAP, Data in GL table - ACDOCA also updated to
have reporting adjusted automatically

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