Enterprise Structures

Question 1

Organizational Units

Answer 1

• Represent a companies structure
• They correspond to the legal and or organizational units (physical places) of an enterprise

Question 2

Company Code

Answer 2

• A company code is the smallest organizational unit of Financial Accounting for which a complete, self-contained set of accounts can be drawn up for purposes of external accounting
• can represent a company within a corporate group, or a subsidiary

Question 3

Sales Organization

Answer 3

• Distributing goods and services
• Negotiating sales conditions
• Product liability and rights of recourse

Question 4

Distribution Channel

Answer 4

• Characterizies the way in which goods and services are distributed
• Is a means through which sales materials reach your customer
• Represent your strategies to distribute goods and services to your customers

Question 5

Division

Answer 5

• You can group materials and services using divisions.
• A division can represent a certain product group.

Question 6

Sales Area

Answer 6

• A sales area is a combination of one sales organization, one distribution channel, and one division
• It defines the distribution channel a sales organization uses to sell products from a certain divisio
• Each sales document is assigned to exactly one sales area

Question 7

(Delivering) Plant

Answer 7

• Location where material stock is kept
• Can represent a production facility
• Has only 1 company code
• Needs at least one combo of a sales org and distribution channel
• Helps determine shipping point

Question 8

Storage Location

Answer 8

• Organizational unit
• Used to separate stock in a plant

Question 9

Shipping point

Answer 9

• Shipping is an integrated part of sales and distribution processing.
• Each outbound delivery is processed by exactly one shipping point.
• The shipping point can be a loading ramp, a mail depot, or a rail depot.

Question 10

SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)

Answer 10

• Used with Warehouse Management
• often needed in addition to the functions of inventory management
• Acts an extension of Materials Management(Logistics Execution)
• 4 character in EWM, and 3 character in MM

Question 11

Warehouse number

Answer 11

• highest level of organizational units in warehouse management
• usually corresponds to a physical building or distribution center
• warehouse number has a substructure that maps the spatial relationship in the warehouse complex in detail.

Question 12

Storage types

Answer 12

different forms where products are physically stored in a warehouse

Question 13

Storage sections

Answer 13

• Subdivisions of a storage type
• represents a group of bins that have a common attribute

Question 14

Storage bins

Answer 14

• represent the physical location where the goods are stored in the warehouse.
• They are assigned to a storage type and a storage section
• Storage bins are the lowest level of the organizational structure