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

Linnart Felkl

Data scientist focusing on simulation, optimization and modeling in R, SQL, VBA and Python