SAP fundamental unit 3

SAP fundamentals unit 3

Unit 3
System wide concepts
Organizational  Element
A company’s enterprise structure is mapped to SAP applications using organizational elements.
Mater Data
Created centrally and available to all applications and all authorized user,master data also has an organizational aspect because its informations is organized into views that are assigned to orgazitional elements.
Transactions
Transactions are applications programs that execute bussines processes in the SAP system.examples include create sales order,change customer master,or display a sales orders’s list report.
Business example
Processes within a company generally take place across departemental boundaries.in global companies,these processes take place across national and campany boundaries.the long term success of IDES AG,is dependent on collaboration with business partner and a global outlook.IDES wants new order from customers enterd into the SAP system with minimal data entry and maximum data accuracy. IDES must also have a record of all transactions.
Organizational elements
Client
The client is the highest level elements of all organizational elements its represents the enterprise/headquarters group.
Company code
The company code is a legal independent accounting unit representing the central organizational elements of financial accounting the company code also. Represents the tax law (national) view  of the company ,the fical calenders this local currency and the tax reporting requirements.
 Plant
A plant can manufacture product,distribute product or provide aservice it is the  central organizational unit of productions.
Storage location
Material stocks in inventory managements can be differentiated  within one plant according to storage locations.
Sales organizations
The sales organizations in the central organizational elements in sales orders managements that controls the terms of sales to the customers.
Distribution channel
Distribution channels can be used to difane how different products reach consumers,for example,wholesale.
Organizational unit
Organizational units describle the various business units that exist in an enterprise.often units are loosely defined as functional or regional departments.
Positions
Positions are the individuals employee assignments in the enterprise.
IDES
IDES ( International Demonstrations and Educations System) in as internasionals company dependent upon collaborations with externals business partners and a global outlook.
IDES AG is a manufacturing company. It operates wordwide and has a numbers of subsidiaries.this company’s processes are using during this traning course to demonstrate the soluctions provide by SAP.
As a model company,IDES has a large number of business branches and branch specific subsidiaries business processes are fully set up and include all core areas such as purchasing,sales,marketing and manufacturing.

System wide master data concepts
In SAP,master data is created centrally and available to all applications and all authorized users.centrally stored master data means data records are always consistent,up to date and free of redundancy.master data also  has an organizational aspect because  its informations is organized into views that sre assigned to organizational elements.the three part structure of masters record makes it possible to flexsible depict the various organizational structures of an operation.
Customers master
A customers master contains key informations that defines the business relationships between a company and its customers.company code data controls the posting procedure and subsequent processing,such as payment and during.
The customers masters three part structure is respresented by:
-general data:  this data is equally relevant to every company code and every sales organization within a company.
-data for company codes:  this data reflects company specific agreements with the customers.
-data for sales: this data has different charectristics for a company’s sales organizations and channels.
Materials master
The material master contains all of  the key  informations  a company needs to manage a materials  within its organizations.the material master defines,among other things,how a product is sold,manufactured,purchased,inventoried,accounted,and costed.
This informations in the materials master is grouped into view that are organized by business functions.
-note : the majority of the views is a materials master are at plant level.
Personnel file
Personnel files are master data record used primaly mySAP ERP Human capital management. These master record follows the same basic three part structure as do others master records.
Organizational  units
Describle the various business units that exist in your enterprise.
Jobs
Jobs serve as descriptions,or templates,that apply  to several positions with similar requiretment,tasks,or other characteristic.
Positions
Positions  are the individuals employee assignments in the enterprise,preson accupy positions. A sopsitions inherist a job characteristic,but you can also define additional characteristic specific to that positions.
Persons
Persons hold positions within the organizational structure.persons represent employess in your company.
Transactions
Transactions are applications programs that execute business processes in the SAP system. Whwnever possible master data is copied during transactions processing,this avoiding re entry of data .for example when executing the transactions create sales order,the urder must enter the customers master numbers this copy is in all of the relevant customers informations.likewise once the materials master number are enterd for the items being orders,the relevant materials data will be copied into the sales order.