From the perspective of SAP PP the most important organizational units are the client, company code, plant and storage location.
Client:
- Self-contained organizational unit.
- Represents highest organizational level
- Organizational units such as company code, plant and storage location exist within a client
- The client could e.g. represent a business unit, to which several company units belong
- A SAP ERP system can contain several clients
- When logging into SAP ERP, one has to choose a client
Company code:
- A company can contain several plants
- The company code is used by accounting
- Balance sheets, income statements etc. are e.g. created on company code level
- A company code is country, city, currency and language specific
- These details can be adjusted with transaction code EC01
Plant:
- A plant is not necessarily referring to a physical plant
- Rather, a plant is an abstract organizational unit
- Several e.g. physical production sites can be assigned to the same map
- A subsidiary of a company could e.g. be modelled using a plant unit
- Production planning and control is conducted on plant level
- Plant information can be adjusted by accessing transaction EC02
Storage location:
- Storage location number is only unique within respective plant
- I.e. several storage location can exist for a plant
- Storage locations can be adjusted using transaction OX09
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