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Module : PP (Production Planning). Organizational Elements. The SAP PP business processes uses the following organizational elements: Client Company Code Plant Storage Location. Organizational Elements Client. A Highest Hierarchical Level in SAP (e.g. a corporation)
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Organizational Elements The SAP PP business processes uses the following organizational elements: • Client • Company Code • Plant • Storage Location
Organizational Elements Client • A Highest Hierarchical Level in SAP (e.g. a corporation) • Used to Differentiate between a Development, Quality Assurance, and Production System within SAP R/3 • Common Set of Rules • Common Tables • Common Master Files • Common Data Bases • Standardized data across the client • A vendor number and name is common across the client • A customer is common across the client • A material number and description is common across the client
Organizational Elements Company Code • A company code represents an independent balancing/legal accounting entity, for example, a company within a corporate group. • Balance sheets and profit & loss statements, required by law, can be created at the company code level. Company Code **** BALANCING / (LEGAL) ENTITY Liabilities Assets = Revenues - Expenses Profit/Loss
Organizational Elements Plant • Usually a manufacturing facility, a warehouse, or a location that stocks , manages, and valuates inventory • May be a physical site with multiple manufacturing/production lines • May be multiple manufacturing/production lines at one physical site • Can be a physical location (cost centers may or may not be associated to a plant i.e. Administrative vs. Manufacturing cost centers) • Links to production (PP), materials management (MM), and sales and distribution (SD) • A plant is assigned to a company code • Purchasing organization are assigned to plants.
Organizational Elements Storage Locations • A storage location is the place where stock is physically kept within a plant • A storage location has the following attributes: • There may be one or more storage locations within a plant. • Stocks are managed only on a quantity basis and not on a value basis at storage location level. • Physical inventories are carried out at storage location level. • Storage locations are always created for a plant.
Master Data List of Master Data in SAP PP Module are: • Material Master • Bills Of Material • Work Centers • Routings
Master Data Material Master
Material Master • Material master record is a company's main source of material-specific data. It is used by all components in the R/3 Logistics System. • The integration of all material data in a single database object prevents the problem of data redundancy. Every area, such as Purchasing, Inventory Management, Materials Planning, and Invoice Verification can use the data stored.
Material Master • Since materials are processed by various user departments within a company and each department stores different information for the materials, the material master is subdivided into information grouped by user departments. • Each user department has a different view of the material master record and is responsible for maintaining the data to support its function. • The data maintained within a view may be valid for more than one organizational level.
Material Master – Units of Measure Base unit: Piece 16 72 4 Pallet (sales unit) Crate (order unit) Box (unit of issue)
Master Data Bills Of Material
Master Data Work Centers