SAP Logistics

Enterprise Structure Assignment  Relationship between individual org. elements are maintained here ********************************************************** Plant to company code assignment : Can we assign one plant to multiple company codes? One plant can be assigned only to one company code one company code can have multiple plants  ************************************************************ one plant can have 'N' number of storage locations ************************************************************ Purchase organization to company code assignment Can we assign one purchase org. to multiple company codes? One Purchase org. Cross company code purchases if I assign company code to purchase org. then I am restricting purchase org. to specific company code If I do not maintain any company code in the assignment then the purchase org. can be used for purchase goods for multiple company codes ************************************************************* Purchase organization to

Enterprise structure is the term used for organizational structure in SAP. All the company organizational elements are mapped at the enterprise structure level. Below are the important elements of organizational structure from a Material Management (MM)  perspective : Purchase Organisation Purchasing group Plant Storage Location Purchase Organisation Purchase organization is the legal entity and is responsible for all kinds of purchase activities within an organization. Ideally, Purchasing department is a company that is represented as a purchase organization Purchasing Group Buyer or group of buyers in a company purchasing department are represented as a purchasing group in SAP Plant  A manufacturing entity of a company or depo or any location that involves some kind of activity in a place can be treated as a Plant in SAP Storage location it's a subdivision of a plant where the stock will be kept. Setting up of enterprise structure is done in two parts : 1. Definition 2. Assignmen

Organisation structure of a company is termed as Enterprise Structure in SAP. This represents the skeleton of an organisation. Each functional department  of a company is represented by an individual organisational element or Unit in SAP. Enterprise structure need to be designed from reporting perspective and this would be basis for the creation of the master data. SAP recommends to keep organisational structure as lean as possible and this will have an impact during master data maintenance. Enterprise structure is divided into two parts : 1. Definition 2. Assignment  Individual Org. elements will be created stand alone in the definition Relationship between independent Org. elements will be done in Assignment process. Below is the mapping of Organisational structure to that of SAP Functional Terminology                                    SAP Terminology Group of Companies  -------------------- ----------->  Company Each Industry Vert