1. © SAP AG 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. Concepts Page 4-2 Basic Concepts  Organizational Data  Master Data  Process Data  Documents

3. Concepts Page 4-3 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. Concepts Page 4-4 Organizational Units Firm Company Factory Warehouse Sales Organization Sales Region DivisionDepartment Client Company Code Plant Sales Organization Division Storage Location Business Area SAP Terminology: Enterprise

5. Concepts Page 4-5 Organizational Units in Logistics Company Code A Company Code B Plant A Storage Location 1 Client Storage Location 2 Plant B

6. Concepts Page 4-6 Organizational Units in Procurement Purch. Organization C Company Code x Plant 3 Company Code y Plant 2Plant 1 Purch. Organization B Purch. Organization A central cross-plantplant-specific

7. Concepts Page 4-7 Organizational Units in Sales and Distribution Sales Organization A Sales Organization B Division Bicycles Company Code Division Motorcycles Division Bicycles Distr. Channel Retail Sales Area Distr. Channel Internet Distr. Channel Retail Division Bicycles

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

9. Concepts Page 4-9 Organizational Units in Human Capital Management Company Code A Personnel Area x Personnel Subarea 1 Client Company Code B Personnel Area z Personnel Subarea 2 Personnel Area y

10. Concepts Page 4-10 Master Data  Static data (master records)  Examples: -Sales Customer master records Material master records Conditions

11. Concepts Page 4-11 Material Master Data - Views Material Master Basic Data Sales Data Controlling Data Forecasting Data Purchasing Data Mat. Plan. Data Accounting Data Storage Data Quality Data

12. Concepts Page 4-12 Material Master Data - Views Sales Org. UW00 Sales Org. UE00 Client XXX General Information relevant for the entire organization: Name Weight Unit of Measure Sales specific information: Delivering Plant Loading Grp Storage Location specific information: Stock Qty Storage Loc. FG00 Storage Loc. TG00

13. Concepts Page 4-13 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. Concepts Page 4-14 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. Concepts Page 4-15 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.