System-Wide Concept

Lesson Overview

                This lesson focuses on the system-wide concept that underlie the SAP system. These concepts, organizational elements, master data, and transactions, are the basic elements designed and unilized to represent a company’s enteprise structure and business processes within the SAP system.

Organizational Elements

               A company”s enterprise structure is mapped to SAP application using organizational elements.

Master Data

      Created centrally and available to all aplications and all authorized users, master data also has an organizational aspect because its information is organized into views that are assigned to organizational elements.

Transactions

                Transactiopns are application program that execute business processes in the SAP system

Lessons Objectives

After completring this lesson, you will be able to:

-          State the purpose of an organizational elements in the SAP

-          Explain the purpose of an organizational element in the SAP system

-          Explain the purpose of transactions in SAP training

-          Explain the use of IDES

Organizational Elements:

A.      Client

The client is the highest-level element of all organizational elements; it represents the enterprise/headquarters group.

B.      Company Code

The company code is a legal independent accounting unit representing the central organizational element of financial accounting.

C.      Plant

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

D.      Storage organizational

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

E.       Distribution Channel

Distribution channel can be used to define how different products reach consumers, for example, wholesale.

F.       Organizational Units

Organizational units describe the various business units that exist in an enterprise.

G.     Position

Position are the indvidual employee assignments in the enterprise.

System-wide Master data concepts:

-          Customer Master

-          Material Master

-          Personal file

Organizational Units:

-          Jobs

-          Positions

-          Persons

-          Transactions