Sunday, January 18, 2009

SAP Organizational Structure of the Material Master Record

Use

Each company has a specific structure and a typical organization. This is represented in the SAP R/3 System as an organizational structure. A certain part of the organizational structure is relevant for every company area.

Organizational Levels

An organizational structure consists of several organizational levels. These are used by different company areas. The organizational levels sales organization and distribution channel are, for example, used exclusively by sales and distribution while plant and storage location are shared by sales and distribution and materials management.

The sales and distribution data for a material is managed at the organizational levels client, plant, sales organization and distribution channel. Therefore, you have to enter the plant, the sales organization and the distribution channel for which you want to change a material master record.

If a material which is available both in plant 1 and plant 2 is to be changed in plant 1, enter only that plant number. You then only get the plant data for this material in plant 1. If you only enter the sales organization and the distribution channel, then you get the sales-specific data without plant data.

Using the organizational level distribution channel, you can, for example, sell materials with different conditions. The prices agreed for distribution channel wholesale trade, for example, are not the same as those for distribution channel retail sales.

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