Academy · SAP Foundations · 100 Foundations
SAP Organizational Structures
Explains how SAP models a company: client, company code, controlling area, profit center, segment, plant, storage location, sales area, shipping point, purchasing organization and purchasing group. Builds the full Contoso Motor Co. structure and shows why nearly every test case must start with the right org units.
- 45 minutes
- 5 lessons + quiz
- Everyone, Business User, Key User, Process Owner
What you’ll be able to do
- Define client, company code, controlling area and plant
- Describe the sales area (sales organization, distribution channel, division)
- Explain purchasing organization and its assignment to plants and company codes
- Trace how organizational units are linked across finance and logistics
- Choose correct org-unit combinations when designing a test scenario
Sources and further reading
- Distinguishing the different forms of an organization that define the enterprise structure (Outlining Processes in Record to Report) · SAP Learning
- Identifying the Organizational Units in Procurement · SAP Learning
- Sales Organization · SAP Help Portal
- Demystify SD: SAP S/4HANA organisation structure · SAP Community (blog by SAP)
- Overview of Financials in SAP S/4HANA (learning journey) · SAP Learning
- SAP S/4HANA product documentation (on-premise / Cloud Private Edition) · SAP Help Portal