The ACDOCP table is the central repository for plan line items in the SAP S/4HANA Universal Journal. Manual planning processes, such as entering statistical key figures (SKFs) using Fiori apps like 'Manage Cost Center Plan Data', are designed to write data directly into this table. This action represents a primary data entry method where user input is directly recorded as a plan document line item. While other methods also populate this table, manual planning is the most fundamental and direct process for creating primary plan data within the core SAP S/4HANA system.

A. Internal activity price calculation: This process reads planned costs and activity quantities from ACDOCP to calculate a price. The resulting price is updated in the activity type master data, not written as a new plan line item in ACDOCP.

B. Planning in SAP Analytics Cloud: While the write-back from SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) does populate ACDOCP, it is an integration process from an external planning tool via an API, not a direct data entry process within the core S/4HANA application itself.

D. Formula planning with templates: This is a secondary planning function (template allocation) that reads existing plan data (e.g., SKFs) to calculate and post new, derived plan values to ACDOCP. It is a calculation and allocation step, not a primary data input method.

1. SAP S/4HANA 2023 Help Portal - Cost Center Planning: "You can enter plan data for cost centers using the SAP Fiori app Manage Cost Center Plan Data. You can plan costs

revenues

activity quantities

and statistical key figures on cost centers for specific periods." This describes the manual planning process (Option C) as a primary method for entering data that is stored in the plan table (ACDOCP).

Source: SAP Help Portal

S/4HANA 2023

Finance -> Controlling -> Cost Center Accounting -> Cost Center Planning.

2. SAP S/4HANA 2023 Help Portal - Iterative Plan Price Calculation: "The system calculates the prices of the activity types iteratively... The system writes the price to the plan price field of the Activity Type master data." This confirms that the output of activity price calculation (Option A) is master data

not a transaction in ACDOCP.

Source: SAP Help Portal

S/4HANA 2023

Finance -> Controlling -> Cost Center Accounting -> Cost Center Planning -> Periodic Planning Activities -> Plan Price Calculation.

3. SAP Learning Hub - Course S4F23 (Cost Management and Profitability Analysis in SAP S/4HANA): The course materials for S/4HANA 2023 explain that the planning architecture is centered on table ACDOCP. It distinguishes between manual planning methods (direct entry)

planning via import/integration (like SAC)

and periodic planning functions like allocations (which includes template-based formula planning). This hierarchical view positions manual planning as the most direct

foundational method.

Source: SAP Learning Hub

S4F23

Unit: "Planning Architecture in SAP S/4HANA".