Organization Structure In SAP

 

 

Part-1: Organization Structure

 

1.1 Maintain Plant

	Config-ID and Title:	Maintain Plant
	Organization/Area:	MM
	ERP Responsible:	MM TEAM
		File Name:	Configuration Document – MM.doc
Responsibility:	MM Team	Status:	Open / Closed

 

Header Details

Description:	Define Plant
Transaction Code:	SPRO
Menu Path:	IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Definition ->Logistics-general-define, Copy, Delete, Check Plant  -> Define Plant
Client dependent settings:	Yes / No

 

 

 

 

FIELDS	VALUES	COMMENTS
Plant		In the step "Define Plant ”. A plant has the following attributes: A plant has an address. A plant has a language. A plant belongs to a country.

The plant is an operating area or branch within a company.

The plant is embedded in the organizational structure as follows:

• The plant is assigned to a single company code. A company code can have several plants.

• Several storage locations in which material stocks are managed can belong to a plant.

• A single business area is assigned to a plant and to a division.

• A plant can have several shipping points. A shipping point can be assigned to several plants.

A plant has the following attributes:

• A plant has an address.

• A plant has a language.

• A plant belongs to a country.

• A plant has its own material master data. You can maintain data at plant level for the following views on a material master record in particular: MRP, Purchasing, Storage, Work scheduling, Production resources/tools, Forecasting, Quality management, Sales, Costing.

The plant plays an important role in the following areas:

• material valuation

If the valuation level is the plant, the material stocks are valuated at plant level. If the valuation level is the plant, you can define the material prices for each plant. Each plant can have its own account determination.

• inventory management

The material stocks are managed within a plant.

• MRP

Material requirements are planned for each plant. Each plant has its own MRP data. Analyses for materials planning can be made across plants.

• production

• costing

In costing, valuation prices are defined only within a plant.

• plant maintenance

If a plant performs plant maintenance planning tasks, it is defined as a maintenance planning plant. A maintenance planning plant can also carry out planning tasks for other plants (maintenance plants).

 

 

Use: The plant is an operating area or branch within a company. A plant has its own material master data. You can maintain data at plant level for the following views on a material master record in particular: MRP, Purchasing, Storage, Work scheduling, Production resources/tools, Forecasting, Quality management, Sales, Costing

 

 

1.2 Assign Plant to Company Code

	Config-ID and Title:	Assign Plant to company code
	Organization/Area:	MM
	ERP Responsible:	MM Team
		File Name:	Configuration Document – MM.doc
Responsibility:	MM Team	Status:	Open / Closed

 

Header Details

Description:	Assign Plant to Company Code
Transaction Code:	SPRO
Menu Path:	IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Logistics-general -> Assign Plant to Company Code
Client dependent settings:	Yes / No

 

 

 

FIELDS	VALUES	COMMENTS
Company code	Plant	In the step "Assign plant to company code", you assign each plant to a company code. A plant can only belong to one company code

 

 

 

1.3 Maintain Purchase Organizations

 

	Config-ID and Title:	Maintain Purchase Organization
	Organization/Area:	MM
	ERP Responsible:	MM TEAM
		File Name:	Configuration Document – MM.doc
Responsibility:	MM Team	Status:	Open / Closed

 

Header Details

Description:	Maintain Purchase Organization
Transaction Code:	SPRO
Menu Path:	IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Definition ->Material Management  -> Maintain Purchase Organization
Client dependent settings:	Yes / No

 

1.1.1      Maintain purchasing organization

From the Materials Management and Purchasing view, the purchasing organization is responsible for all purchasing activities (including the processing of requests for quotations and purchase orders, for example).

The purchasing organization is integrated within the organizational structure as follows:

• A purchasing organization can be assigned to several company codes.
  (= Corporate-group-wide purchasing).

• A purchasing organization can be assigned to one company code.
  (= Company-specific purchasing).

• A purchasing organization can also exist without being assigned to a company code.

• Since each plant must be assigned to a company code, the latter can be determined via the plant at the time of each procurement transaction even if the procuring purchasing organization has not been assigned to a company code.

• A purchasing organization must be assigned to one or more plants.
  (= Plant-specific purchasing).

• A purchasing organization can be linked to one or more other purchasing organizations.
  (= reference purchasing organization)
  For more on this topic, refer to Assign Purchasing Organization to Reference Purchasing Organization.

• A purchasing organization can be divided into several purchasing groups that are responsible for different operational areas.

• Each purchasing organization has its own info records and conditions for pricing.

• Each purchasing organization has its own vendor master data.

• Each purchasing organization evaluates its own vendors using MM Vendor Evaluation.

• Authorizations for processing purchasing transactions can be assigned to each purchasing organization.

• All items of an external purchasing document, that is, request for quotation, purchase order, contract, or scheduling agreement, belong to a purchasing organization.

• The purchasing organization is the highest level of aggregation (after the organizational unit "client") for purchasing statistics.

• The purchasing organization serves as the selection criterion for lists of all purchasing documents.

 

FIELDS	VALUES	COMMENTS
	Purchase Organization	In the step "Maintain Purchase Organization ”.

 

Use: in the step you maintain central Purchase Organization. Purchase organization is responsible for all purchasing activities (including the processing of Request of Quotations and Purchase Order, for example)

 

 

 

1.4 Assign Purchase Organization to Plant

 

	Config-ID and Title:	Assign Purchase Organization to plant
	Organization/Area:	MM
	ERP Responsible:	MM Team
		File Name:	Configuration Document – MM.doc
Responsibility:	MM Team	Status:	Open / Closed

 

Header Details

Description:	Assign Purchase Organization to plant
Transaction Code:	SPRO
Menu Path:	IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Assignment ->Material Management -> Assign Purchase Organization to plant
Client dependent settings:	Yes / No

 

FIELDS	VALUES	COMMENTS
–Purchase Organization	-Plant	In this step, you assign purchasing organizations to the plants for which they are responsible.

Use: In this IMG activity, you assign purchasing organizations to the plants for which they are responsible.

 

 

 

1.5 Maintain Storage Locations

 

	Config-ID and Title:	Maintain Storage location
	Organization/Area:	MM
	ERP Responsible:	MM Team
		File Name:	Configuration Document – MM.doc
Responsibility:	MM Team	Status:	Open / Closed

 

Header Details

Description:	Maintain Storage Location
Transaction Code:	SPRO
Menu Path:	IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Definition  ->Material Management -> Maintain Storage location
Client dependent settings:	Yes / No

 

 

 

Use: A storage location is the place where stock is physically kept within a plant. Storage locations are always created for a plant. It is possible to store material data specific to a storage location.

 

1.6 Units Of Measurement

 

	Config-ID and Title:	Check Units Of Measurement
	Organization/Area:	MM
	ERP Responsible:	MM TEAM
		File Name:	Configuration Document – MM.doc
Responsibility:	MM Team	Status:	Open / Closed

 

1.6.1 Header Details

Description:	Dimensions
Transaction Code:	SPRO
Menu Path:	IMG ->SAP NetWeaver -> General settings->Check Units Of Measurement ->Dimensions
Client dependent settings:	Yes / No

 

 

 

                             

FIELDS	VALUES	COMMENTS
		A size, with which units of measure are grouped. There are seven base dimensions, to which all other dimensions can be traced: Length, weight, time, electrical current, temperature, molecular mass and brightness. Examples: Length such as meter, centimeter and inch Time such as second, minute and hour Temperature such as Degree Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin Measurement units of the same dimension can be converted such as 1 meter to 100 centimetres

 

Use: In applications you often have to make calculations with quantities and physical units. Units of measurement are needed for their screen display and for internal conversions (such as kilogram <-> gram, but also centimetre <-> inch). The international system of units (SI) is used for this.

 

 

 

 

1.6.2 Unit Of Measurement

 

Header Details

Description:	Units Of Measurement
Transaction Code:	SPRO
Menu Path:	IMG ->SAP NetWeaver -> General settings->Check Units Of Measurement ->Units of Measurement
Client dependent settings:	Yes / No

 

 

 

 

 

Use: In applications you often have to make calculations with quantities and physical units. Units of measurement are needed for their screen display and for internal conversions (such as kilogram <-> gram, but also centimetre <-> inch). The international system of units (SI) is used for this.