An object within Profitability Analysis to which costs and revenues are assigned.
A profitability segment corresponds to a market segment. You can calculate the profitability of a profitability segment by comparing its sales revenues against its costs.
A profitability segment in an operating concern is defined by a combination of characteristic values. Characteristics can be concepts already available in the SAP System (customer, product, sales organization, and so on), or you can define your own concepts (such as "order size class").
Example
Profitability segment 1: Product "Prod-1132"/ Customer "100267"
Profitability segment 2: Industry "Chemicals"/ Country "USA"/ Product group "Laboratory instruments"
More terms such as profitability segment in Dictionary P.
- Manual Pattern Matching System:
- Help quick and efficient processing of a knowledge base's dependencies. IPC-PME compiles all active constraints of a knowledge base to discrimination nets, allowing for dependencies to be profitability segment definition.
- Manual Partner-Dependent Partner Data:
- Help The superordinate term for location, product and partner number and description that a business partner uses for these master data objects profitability segment explain.
- Manual Planned Lot Size (CO-PC):
- Help to calculate the costs that vary with the lot size in target cost calculation. Depending on the target cost version, this lot size equals the planned order quantity or the costing lot size of the profitability segment what is.
- Manual Period Consumption:
- Help demand for a register that is relevant to meter reading, in a period with a maximum of 365 days. Period consumption is entered at register level as a fixed value in the installation structure data profitability segment meaning.
- Manual Payment On Account:
- Help A payment that is assigned to an account but (in contrast to a down payment or partial payment) is not yet assigned to a particular accounting transaction profitability segment abbreviation.
