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Module Functions:
(MM) Materials Management - the module where (finished goods, raw materials and consumables) are
managed for both quantity, price, month end inventory cutoffs and balance. Materials Management is inventory
management, purchasing, invoice verification, warehouse valuation, Material master and materials planning.
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SAP- Controlling (CO) Notes
Module Functions:
Control - The module that manages cost reporting, analysis and control. This is the primary area for
managing and evaluating financial performance.
CO-PA:
Profitability Analysis. That part of CO where operations will access its performance factors and profitability
statements contain margins, standard cost variance, sales information, allocations and other related profit or loss
data. This module helps analyze profitability of customers, markets and products at various levels of contribution
margins. Profitability is measured down to the SD billing document line and is adjusted periodically against standard
costs and other costs.
• Profitability analysis, like profit center accounting is another form of profitability accounting. However, it is
incorporated in operative cost accounting, i.e. the profitability segments in CO-PA are accounting
assignment objects and are thus directly integrated in the flow of data in cost accounting.
• In contrast to EC-PCA, where profits are found for areas of responsibility within the company, CO-PA lets
you analyze the profitability of different segments of your operative business as defined according to
products, customers, orders or any combinations of groups of these or as organizational units, such as
company codes or business areas. The aim of CO-PA is to provide decision makers with information about
the market.
• Master data and basic structures in CO-PA can be defined with sufficient flexibility to meet company specific
requirements. This is done by choosing the objects for evaluation (characteristics) and key figures to create
a company-specific multidimensional structure for analysis.
• Unlike EC-PCA, CO-PA lets you use an account-based or a costing based approach. In the costing based
approach, define value fields for analysis. In account based the values are represented in accounts.
• EC-PCA and CO-PA should not be regarded as alternative components. They complement one another and
jointly provide a flexible and comprehensive profitability accounting tool, allowing you both a market
oriented view and a responsibility view.
• Data Source
1. Revenue Accounts
2. Expense Accounts
3. Allocation of Operating Expense (only across profit center)
4. Stock Transfers Across PCA
5. A/R Sub ledger (Month End Batch Job)
6. A/P Sub ledger (Month End Batch Job)
7. Other Balance Sheet Accounts
• Data Flows
CO-CCA:
Cost Center Accounting determines where costs are incurred in the organization. Assigned to the sub area where
they have the most influence.
• By creating and assigning cost elements to cost centers, you make cost controlling possible, but also
provide data for other components in CO such as Cost Object Controlling. Cost centers can use allocation
methods to assign collect costs to other controlling objects.
• Cost center structure can reflect the structure of the organization. It generally remains constant over time.
• Cost Centers
CO-OPA:
- Internal Orders
CO-PC:
- Product Costing
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CO-OH:
- Overhead
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• Company & Trading Partner controlled by FI are required to generate eliminations. Note: FI-GL/AR/AP line
items always have Company in Document Header. Trading partner is in document line item where relevant
• Profit Centers & Partner Profit Centers controlled by PCA are needed to generate eliminations for
Management Consolidation by line of business
• Consolidation Units and Partner Units controlled by CS are used to generate eliminations for various
consolidations. Transaction data from CS-PCA updates Consolidation units and if appropriate stores the
data by partner Unit.
• Transaction types controlled by FI are used for reporting of consolidated balance sheet flows in CS.
Transaction Types are used by the Fixed Asset module to distinguish between beginning balance, additions,
transfers, disposals and ending balances. Separate types are usefull to distinguish movements in equity
holdings for financial investments.
• Functional Areas controlled by CO are used for reporting consolidated P&L Statements. Functional Areas
combine accounts but distinguish balances by function (e.g. selling expenses, research & development
costs etc.)
o FI-AA Assets Module is the primary user of Transaction Types. Transactions made in FI-AA are
stored with a Transaction Type which identifies whether it is an addition or disposal, etc. These
Asset Transaction Types can be mapped into consolidation transaction types.
o Data passing from PCA to CS populates a single field with either a Transaction type for selected
Balance Sheet accounts or a Functional Area for selected P&L accounts.
o Transaction types and Functional Areas are for Reporting.
EC-PCA Profit Center Accounting - Profit center accounting forms an interface between the operative controlling
(CO) applications and the Enterprise Controlling (EC) module It reflects the actual and plan postings from
operative controlling and settlements components with which it is in targeted in real-time. It then summarizes
this data according to profit centers, which reflect the internal structure of areas of responsibility within the
company code
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• Profit Centers are organized into an organizational hierarchy in which responsibility and incentive structures
can be defined. Profit Center Hierarchy:
o Node one
(a) Profit Center one
o Node two
• Profit Center two
(a). Revenue
(b). Costs
• In EC-PCA, the profit center is the lowest level at which you measure financial results
• Since CS-PCA is only complete at the end of the month, CS-PCA data in only rolled up to CS via FI-SL
(Special Ledger) monthly.
CO-OH
o FI P&L
- SD, MM, PP, FI Journal Entries
CO-Allocations
CO-PA
o FI P&L External Revenue and Cost of Sales
- SD, MM, PP, FI Journal Entries
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SAP- Sales & Distribution (SD) Notes
Module Functions:
(SD) Sales and Distribution: the module where order taking, pricing, invoicing, route selection and other
customer billing activities take place
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SAP- Finance (FI) Notes
Module Functions:
The module that performs most of the traditional legal entity accounting functions, reporting by company,
income statements and balance sheets. This is the module where you will find the A/R and A/P sub-ledgers and
their open items along with the Asset Accounting Ledger.
• Chart of Accounts - contains all account numbers and some general control data.
• Company Code - an independent balancing / legal accounting entity. each company code is assigned
to one Chart of Accounts
• Functional Area - Classify operating expenses according to of cost-of-sales accounting by
production, admin, S&D marketing, R&D, etc. By breaking costs into functional areas cost-
of-sales accounting shows why costs accrue and indicates the economic purpose of the expense.
• Trading Partner
• Operating concern - the central organizational element in profitability analysis. It represents the
environment within which a market or (customer defined) segment of the business can be
monitored and profitability analyzed. 1:n relation to controlling.
• Controlling area - identifies a self-contained unit for which the management of costs and profits can
be performed. Only one chart of accounts is allowed within a controlling area. However,
• (FI-AA) Asset Accounting - Depreciation (both book and tax), net book values, transfers and
retirements
• Basic account assignment data (i.e. document date, posting date, document type, posting key, account
number and amount.
• Entries must be made in all required fields.
• Debit and credit balances must be equal.
Every document contains a document header and at least two or more line items.
• The header contains information valid for the whole document (i.e. document date and type).
• Line items contain transaction specific data (i.e. posting key, account number and amount).
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Document header:
• Document Date is the date that the transaction took place. (Must be on or before the Posting date ?)
Posting Date determines the posting period (the system will enter this date if not provided?)
• Document Number is normally assigned b the system from a range predefined for each document type.
(Not an input for g/l doc types {S}
• Reference and Document Header Text is descriptive data
• Period is the accounting period. Normally numeric (1 to 16?)
• Document type, a two character alphanumeric field. This field determines the document number range and
the valid account types which may be used.
• A df Fixed Assets
• D df Accounts Receivable
• K df Accounts Payable
• R df Logistics (MM & SD)
• S df G/L
• T df Treasury
• W df Material Management
• Z df Sp0ecial purpose
Line Items:
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