With the introduction of SAP R / 3 systems for a company or a company, the legal and organizational structure of the group or the company with the help of organizational structures in SAP system be mapped. The organizational structures form a "skeleton" with be the recognition of all transactions carried out in R / 3. They
are used to control managerial transactions in R / 3 and are used for reporting. In particular, using the organizational structures and using the transaction (eg when creating a root sentence, or when posting a document) the application data SAP R / 3 structure saved. Organizational structures are client-specific, i.e. they are always in a specific client creating and apply only to those clients.
The organizational structure of an SAP R / 3 systems consists of units as well as associations between these organizational units. As organizational structures ever created in a given client be, is the client one (the "supreme"), each organizational unit organizational structure.
Units are initially from the perspective of an application component the SAP system created in Customizing (defined). For example, are in the application of Financial Accounting (FI), the organizational units initially defined from an accounting perspective, in the component controlling (CO) first, by controlling aspects.
In some organizational units are required, ie some application components can be without the definition and maintenance of certain do not operate the organizational units in an SAP R / 3. In the financial sector is to create the organizational unit "company code" mandatory. After creating an organizational unit is automatically sent to the client assigned, in which it was defined. For the sake of integration the R / 3, however, in most cases, additional assignments made to existing organizational units of the client. For example, the organizational units of the controlling need to Units of finance are allocated to ensure that the cost accounting relevant postings in the financial system in controlling can be accepted. A single organizational unit cans so for several application components to be relevant.
The totality of all in client-defined organizational units and their assignments are the corporate structure (in the relevant Clients). When working with a particular application component however, only a part of the organizational units and assignments required. This is called the organizational structure of the application component, e.g. of the organizational structure
• The financial system
• Materials
• Distribution
• Human resource management
In the chapters on the logistics solutions for accounting and resources you will find further explanations of the organizational structures application components.
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