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1. SAP
ENTERPRISE STRUCTURE

2. Agenda
Enterprise Structure.
Rudiments of Enterprise Structure.
o Company Code.
o Sales Organization.
o Distribution Channel.
o Division.
Sales Area.
Sales Office
Sales Group
Shipping.
Shipping Point .
Architecture.

3. 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:
o Company Code
o Plant
o Storage Location
o Sales Organization
o Distribution Channel etc.

4. Contd…

5. Rudiments of Enterprise Structure
Company code
Sales area
Sales organization
Distribution channel
Division
Plant
Storage location
Shipping point

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

7. Sales Organization
Responsible for,
 Distributing goods and services.
 Negotiating sales conditions.
 Product liability and rights of recourse.

8. 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

9. Division
 Represents a product line.
 Ex: Motorcycles, Spare parts, Services and so on.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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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14. 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.

15. Architecture

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