Unit 3 System-wide Concept

Organizational Elements

Client

The client is the  highest-level element of all organizational elements it represent the enterprise/headquarter group.

Company code

The company code is a legal independent accounting unit representing the central organizational element of financial accounting.The company code also represents the tax lsw (national) view of the company,the fiscal calendar,the local currency,and the tax reporting requirements

Plant

A plant can manufacture product,distribute product,or provide a service it is the central organizational unit of production

Storage location

Material stocks in inventory Management can be differentiated within one plant according to storage location.

Sales organization

The sales organization is the central organization element in sales order management that controls the terms of sale to the customer

Distribution channel

Distribution channels can be used to define how different products reach cunsomers,for example,wholesale

Organization unit

Organizational units describe the various business units that exist in an enterprise.Often units are loosely defined as functional or regional departments

Position

Positions are the individual employee assignments in the enterprise.

IDES

IDES (International Demonstration and Educational System) is an international company dependent upon collaborations with external business partners and a global outlook.

IDES AG is a manufacturing company.It operates world wide and has a number of subsidiaries. This company’s processes are using during this training course to demonstrate the solution provided by SAP

IDES AG produces many products. Products are manufactured at a number of production location world wide.Global planning ensures that deliveries are made from the nearest distribution center.

Customer Master

A customer master contains key information that defines the business relationship between a company and its customer. Company code data controls the posting procedure and subsequent processing,such as payments and dunning. The customer master’s “three-part structure” is represented by:

1.       General Data: This data is equally relevant to every company code and every sales organization within a company

2.       Data for company codes: This data reflects company specific agreements with the customer

3.       Data for sale:this data has different characteristics for a company’s sales organizations and channels

Material Master

The material master contains all of the key information a company needs to manage a material within its organization.The material master defines,among other things,how a product is sold,manufactured,purchased,inventoried,accounted,and costed. The information is the material master is grouped into views that are organized by business function

Personnel File

Personenel files are master data records used primarily mySAP ERP Human Capital management.The organizational elements used by mySAP HCM are unique and,as a group,they are reffered to as Organizational management.