1. SAP Concepts SAP University Alliances Authors Claudia Kroliczek
Stefan Weidner
Product
SAP ERP 6.0 EhP7
Level
Beginner
Focus
Basic concepts
Version
2.30
Last Update
July 2014

2. Basic Concepts
Organizational Data
Master Data
Process Data
Documents

3. Organizational Units
Define the enterprise structure for legal and business purposes
Legal units, plants, warehouses, sales organizations, profit centers
Examples:
Client
Highest organizational unit
Represents an enterprise consisting of other organizational units
Company Code
Smallest org unit for which you can maintain a legal set of books
Sales Organization
An organizational unit responsible for the sale of certain products or services.
The responsibility of a sales organization may include legal liability for products and customer claims

4. Organizational Units Enterprise Firm Company Factory Sales
SAP Terminology:
Enterprise
Client
Company
Code
Plant
Sales
Organization
Division
Storage
Location
Firm
Company
Factory
Sales
Organization
Sales Region
Department
Division
Business Area
Warehouse

5. Organizational Units in Logistics
Client
Company Code A
Company Code B
Plant A
Plant B
Storage
Location 1
Storage
Location 2

6. Organizational Units in Procurement
central
Purch. Organization A
Company Code x
Company Code y
Purch. Organization B
Purch. Organization C
Plant 1
Plant 2
Plant 3
cross-plant
plant-specific

7. Organizational Units in Sales and Distribution
Company Code
Sales Organization A
Sales Organization B
Distr. Channel
Internet
Distr. Channel
Retail
Distr. Channel
Retail
Division
Bicycles
Division
Motorcycles
Division
Bicycles
Division
Bicycles
Sales Area

8. Organizational Units in Accounting
Client
Controlling Area A
Controlling Area B
Chart of Accounts x
Chart of Accounts y
Company
Code 1
Company
Code 2
Company
Code 3
Company
Code 4

9. Organizational Units in Human Capital Management
Client
Company Code A
Company Code B
Personnel
Area x
Personnel
Area y
Personnel
Area z
Personnel
Subarea 1
Personnel
Subarea 2

10. Static data (master records) Examples:
Master Data
Static data (master records)
Examples:
Sales
Customer master records
Material master records
Conditions

11. Material Master Data - Views
Sales Data
Basic Data
Purchasing Data
Mat. Plan. Data
Material Master
Forecasting Data
Storage Data
Controlling Data
Quality Data
Accounting Data

12. Material Master Data - Views
General Information relevant for the entire organization:
Name Weight Unit of Measure
Client XXX
Sales specific information:
Delivering Plant Loading Grp
Storage Location specific information:
Stock Qty
Sales Org. UW00
Storage Loc. FG00
All of this together makes up the Master Record for a Material.
Storage Loc. TG00
Sales Org. UE00

13. Process Data Dynamic data created during business process Contain
Organizational level (data)
Master data
Situation data
Example: Sales order
Org. units: client, company code, sales organization
Master data: customer, material
Situation data: date, time, person, amount

14. Generated data documenting a business process
Documents
Generated data documenting a business process
Represents business process in SAP system
Contains all relevant information from master and process data
Examples:
Sales order
Purchasing order
Material document
Financial document

15. Document Flow
The document flow and order status feature allows you to find the status of an order at any point in time.
The SAP updates the order status every time a change is made to any document created.