Enterprise Structure Overview

Enterprise Structure in SAP

Company

Chart of accounts
Operating Concern Controlling Area Company Code Fiscal year variant
Posting period variant

Purchasing Org.

Plant Personnel area Sales Org.

Personnel
SLoc sub area Distr. Distr.

WH. NO Div
Div Div
Div Div
Div

Stroge type

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 The operating concern is the highest reporting level for profitability and sales and
marketing controlling, and the central organizational unit in Profitability Analysis
(CO-PA) used to segment and structure the market.

Controlling areas structure the internal accounting operations of an organization

within Management Accounting.

A Company codes represents an independent balancing/legal accounting entity.

The plant is an organizational unit within Logistics. It is used to break an

organization down according to production, procurement, plant maintenance,
and material planning considerations.

Purchasing organization is an organizational unit within Logistics. Almost all

business transactions related to procurement are carried out in a purchasing
organization.

Personnel Area

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 An organizational unit allowing the differentiation of material stocks within a plant.
All data referring to a particular storage location is stored at storage location level.
This applies mainly to storage location stocks.

The sales organization is an organizational unit within logistics, that structures the
company according to its sales requirements.

Distribution channel determines how materials or services are sold and how
they are distributed to customers, for example, retail, wholesale, self-collection.

Individual product lines are separated using Division

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 Company Name: Chain Sys AG
Company code:1000
Controlling Area:1000
Plant:1000(Hamburg)
Sales Org:1000(Frankfurt)
Pur.Org:1000(Purchasing Europe)
Personal Area:1000(Hamburg)
Chart Of Accounts :INT
Fiscal Year Variant:K4

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