Hello, all.
Our customer is considering to implement SAP SD, MM, PP, CO-PC and CO-PA, but FI.
We think that their demand is too small to need CO-PA, but we have no practical explanation.
So please advise us of disadvantage for this case.
We have already explained about general cautions on CO-PA, to be replied that they would not matter, as below;
a) It might be found that discrepancies on amount between CO-PA and EC-PCA caused by the following points:
- Difference on calculation logic for cost of sales; CO-PA by standard cost, EC-PCA by actual cost.
- Difference on posting timing for cost of sales ; CO-PA on billing, EC-PCA on post goods issue.
But according to the customer's idea,
- Financials to be managed by other system than SAP.
- Co-PA to be used as prompt profit report by sales staffs, just for their refference.
- Budget to be managed by other system than SAP.
Therefore, the caution the above would not matter to the customer.
b) CO-PA would consume great system resource caused by additional records in data base tables exclusive for CO-PA
and high spec hardware would be required for operation under appropriate performance.
But we have no practical data on the resource nor the performance, so it would be difficult to explain
the disadvantage to the customer.
The customer's demand is only the partial function as below;
- To grasp real time profit per material, customer, and so on based on standard cost.
(BW to be late only 1 day.)
- To grasp shipping expenses calculated by shipped quantity multiple shipping rate for refference.
(not neccessary to match with actual shipping expenses.)
- No demand on budget calculation.
Thank you in advance for your kind advice.
Nahoko