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Willem Hoek: SAP Hierarchy - Materials Management
Willem Hoek: SAP Hierarchy - Materials Management
By Willem Hoek
SAP version used for this post: SAP ECC (ERP Central Component) 5.0
Company (FI)
Plant
Storage Location
Purchase Organisation
(the red crosses indicate links that are not allowed -- see notes below)
Company Code
Plant
Where are the physical places (storage locations, distibution centres, ..) where materials are handled?
If using SAP PP, where are all the factories?
How does the valuation (prices) of material differ between all these places?
Reporting and authorisation requirements?
Storage Locations
Where are all the physical storage places (warehouses, tanks, ...)
Purchase Organisation
Plants can also be linked to a default Purchase Organisation. This is used for example in "Auto PO create
(when doing GR)" functionality, so that the system knows what P.Org to use. This link is only required if
these functionalies are used.
CONFIGURATION IN SAP
Creating and Assigning (linking) Plants
It can also be link to a company code (this only takes place if the P.Org will be used plants linked to this
company code).