Updating Historical Record in COPA by Realignment When Organizational Structure Changes

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Updat ing His to r ica l Record inCOPA by Real ignm ent WhenOrganizat iona l St ruc t ure Changes

Applies to:

Any business organization having CO-PA Implemented. This is applicable from SAP R/3 4.7 Version.

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Summary

There is a possibility of change of Organizational Structure in regard to Product, Customer or Sales Structureand Management may look for the said change to be effected in all historical data posted in COPA. Its notfeasible to change individual document as number of records would be very high. This mass update ofrecords in COPA with structural change can be done using realignment in COPA.

This article displays the process of creation/maintenance of realignment and updating of historical records inCOPA with organizational structure change.

Author: Harish Kumar Singhania

Company: Intelligroup Asia Pvt. Ltd.,

Created on: 16 August 2009

Author Bio

Harish Kumar Singhania is a Chartered Accountant and has more than 10 years of total experience includingdomain. He is working as a Consultant with Intelligroup and has been part of FICO competency since March

2006. He has worked for three years in production support and enhancement.

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Updating Historical Record in COPA by Realignment When Organizational Structure Changes

Table of Contents

Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 3Objective ......................................................................................................................................................... 3Business Requirement .................................................................................................................................... 3

Solution ............................................................................................................................................................... 4Creation/maintenance of Realignment ............................................................................................................ 4Creation of request for Realignment Run and Maintenance of Select Condition and Conversion Rule ........ 5Testing of Realignment Run Created/Maintained ........................................................................................... 7Execute Realignment Run ............................................................................................................................ 10Display of Report After Execution Realignment Run (Local rpt 3 Changed) ................................................ 10

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Introduction

As a solution provider you may have to update historical data posted in COPA due to OrganizationalStructure in regard to Product, Customer or Sales Structure

Objective

The objective of this article is to explain step by step process for creation/maintenance of realignment andupdating of historical records in COPA with organizational structure change.

Business Requirement

There may be a change in Organization Structure in regard to Product, Customer or Sales Structure likechange in Local Rpt3 or Change in Product Hierarchy of a Product etc. and Management may look for thesaid change to be effected in all historical data posted in COPA.


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Solution

Procedure

Access the activity using one of the following navigation options:

SAP Menu AccountingControllingProfitability AnalysisMaster

DataMaintain Realignments

Transaction Code KEND

User Actions and Values 1. Creation/Maintenance of Realignment

2. Creation of request for Realignment Run andmaintenance of Select Condition and Conversion Rule

3. Testing of Realignment Run created/maintained

4. Execute Realignment Run

Result Historical records in COPA are updated with organizationalstructure change based on select condition and conversion rule

Creation/maintenance of Realignment

Click on create Realignment run

Enter the short text. This is naming of realignment run that is to be created.


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Creation of request for Realignment Run and Maintenance of Select Condition and Conversion Rule

After creating realignment run, create request for realignment run

Enter the short text for realignment request.

Under Select Condition, select and assign characteristics for which realignment is to be done.


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After completing the select condition, we have to set the conversion rule. This is the setting up ofcharacteristics for which changes are be made for the selected condition assigned. If any particular value isbe replaced without making changes in master record, select the characteristics in conversion rule and pull itdown and enter the characteristic value that need to be replaced.


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Testing of Realignment Run Created/Maintained

To do this click on test monitor


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Mention the record type, Reference Document Number and Reference Item Number. We can also mentiononly PA Segment Number.

Click on test realignment run


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We can see the characteristic Local Rpt3 new characteristic value changed to DE3-800041


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Execute Realignment Run

We can execute with start time or without start time. If we execute with start time, time of scheduling the jobwill be prompted and if without start time, job will be scheduled but not released.

Executed with start time.

Display of Report After Execution Realignment Run (Local rpt 3 Changed)


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Related Content

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