SAP Enterprise Structure

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SAPENTERPRISE STRUCTURE
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Agenda

• Enterprise Structure.
• Rudiments of Enterprise Structure.
• Company Code.
• Sales Organization.
• Distribution Channel.
• Division.
• Sales Area.
• Sales Office
• Sales Group
• Shipping.
• Shipping Point .
• Architecture.

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Enterprise structure

• Structure of SAP organizational units, that
  reflects the structure of the business in the
  real world.
• There are various SAP organizational units that
  can be mapped to business structure based on the
  real world business requirements such as
• Company Code
• Plant
• Storage Location
• Sales Organization
• Distribution Channel etc.

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Contd
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Rudiments of Enterprise Structure

• Company code
• Sales area
• Sales organization
• Distribution channel
• Division
• Plant
• Storage location
• Shipping point

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Company Code

• Legal entity and independent accounting unit .
• AT company code level we create
• Balance Sheets required by law.
• Profit and Loss statement.

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Sales Organization

• Responsible for,
• Distributing goods and services.
• Negotiating sales conditions.
• Product liability and rights of recourse.

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Distribution Channel

• Through which materials reach the customer.
• Represents the distribution of goods and/or
  services to
• customer.
• Ex Whole sale trade, retail trade, internet
  trade and so on

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Division

• Represents a product line.
• Ex Motorcycles, Spare parts, Services and so
  on.

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Sales Area

• Combination of sales organization, distribution
  channel, and division.
• Defines the distribution channel, that a sales
  organization uses to sell products of a certain
  division.

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Sales Area

• Sales office is an organizational unit in sales
  and distribution which is responsible for sales
  within a specific geographical area.
• They can be used for reporting purposes. Sales
  offices are optional.

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Sales Group
Sales groups (for example, each with a sales
manager) are subdivisions of a distribution
chain. Sales groups can be used for reporting
purposes.
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Shipping

• The plant is a location, where material stock is
  kept and represent a production facility in the
  system.
• The plant and storage location are
  organizational units, that can be used by all
  logistic areas of the system.

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Shipping Point

• Shipping is an integrated module of SD
  processing.
• The shipping point is the highest-level
  organizational unit of shipping, that controls
  the shipping activities.
• Each outbound delivery is processed by exactly
  one shipping point.

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Architecture
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