9. Customizing Company Structures

Question 0

2. Contents (1 item):

Answer 0

1. Enterprise struct

Question 1

1. Objectives (3 items):

Answer 1

1. Org units
2. Enterprise structures
3. Adjust org structures

Question 2

3. Objectives of enterprise struc (4 items):

Answer 2

1. Flexibility in rep complex corp struct
2. Adapt to changes in corp struct
3. Distinguish between views in logistics (SD, purchasing…), cost acct and fin acct
4. Process data across company codes

Question 3

4. List enterprise struct (5 items):

Answer 3

1. Cost acct
2. Ext log
3. Acct
4. Int log (MRP/Prod)
5. Inv mgmt

Question 4

5. List org units (8 items):

Answer 4

1. Company
2. Controlling areas
3. Sales orgs
4. Purch orgs
5. Company codes
6. Valuation areas
7. Plants
8. Storage loc/ batches/ spec stocks

Question 5

6. Integration of sales in fin acct (5 items):

Answer 5

1. Client is a self-contained technical unit synonymous to a group where gen data and tables for several org struct are stored
2. Company code and business area are used to rep a grp from fin acct perspective
3. Each co code rep an indep acct unit and several co codes can be created for each client
4. Several co codes can use same COA
5. Business area is an optional org unit for cross co code reporting

Question 6

7. Org struct in sales (8 items):

Answer 6

1. Sales org
2. Distrib channel
3. Division
4. Sales area
5. Sales office
6. Sales grp
7. Shipping point
8. Transp planning point

Question 7

8. Sales org (5 items):

Answer 7

1. Rep a selling unit as a legal entity and resp for prod liability and right of recourse
2. Used to divide mkt into regions
3. Each transaction is processed within sales org
4. One co code and multiple plants for each sales org
5. Has its own master data such as customer, material and cond records

Question 8

9. Distrib channel (3 items):

Answer 8

1. General struc for distrib goods based on market strategy such as wholesale, industrial and retail
2. Customers are served through one or more DCs within a sales org
3. You can vary master data for each pair of sales org/DC

Question 9

10. Division (3 items):

Answer 9

1. Products can be divided into divisions
2. Make customer agreement regarding partial deliv and pricing
3. Carry out stat analyses and marketing strategies

Question 10

11. Sales area (3 items):

Answer 10

1. Sales org , DC, division comb
2. Sales docs, deliv docs and bill docs are assigned to sales areas
3. Master data: customer, material, cond

Question 11

12. Sales office and sales grp (3 items):

Answer 11

1. Sales office: geographical aspect of org struct and can be assigned to multiple sales areas after permitted for the sales area
2. Sales grp: assigned to sales offices. Employees of a sales office can be assigned to sales grps defined for each div and DC
3. Sales grp consists of salespersons assigned to a sales office and sales grp in the sales employee master record

Question 12

13. Plant (3 items):

Answer 12

1. Location for production and MRP or material stock loc
2. Each is assigned to one co code
3. Before used to deliver goods to customer must bet setup as deliv plant in sales customizing

Question 13

14. Deliv plant (3 items):

Answer 13

1. Plant must be assigned to sales org and DC in customizing (use sales org to diff them)
2. Each plant can be assigned to several DCs and sales orgs
3. Also possible for plant to belong to diff co code in the sales org for cross-co sales