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1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................... 4
2. ORGANISATIONAL UNITS IN SAP ............................................................................................................ 4
3. IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS IN SAP ........................................................................................................... 6
4. KEY DRIVERS ............................................................................................................................................. 6
5. ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE DEFINITION FOR SIPS ....................................................................... 7
6. MODULE WISE SAP ORGANISATION STRUCTURE ............................................................................... 8
6.1 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT & CONTROLLING ........................................................................................ 8
6.1.1 COMPANY CODE........................................................................................................................................ 8
6.1.2 CREDIT CONTROL AREA ........................................................................................................................ 10
6.1.3 CHART OF ACCOUNTS ........................................................................................................................... 10
6.1.4 OPERATING CONCERN ........................................................................................................................... 10
6.1.5 CONTROLLING AREA .............................................................................................................................. 11
6.1.6 COST CENTRES ....................................................................................................................................... 12
6.1.7 PROFIT CENTERS .................................................................................................................................... 12
6.2 MATERIAL MANAGEMENT ...................................................................................................................... 14
6.2.1 PLANT ....................................................................................................................................................... 14
6.2.2 PURCHASE ORGANIZATION .................................................................................................................. 16
6.2.3 STORAGE LOCATION .............................................................................................................................. 17
6.3 SALES AND DISTRIBUTION .................................................................................................................... 19
6.3.1 SALES ORGANISATION .......................................................................................................................... 19
6.3.2 DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL ....................................................................................................................... 20
6.3.3 DIVISION ................................................................................................................................................... 20
6.3.4 SHIPPING POINT ...................................................................................................................................... 21
6.4 PROJECT SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................................ 23
7. ANNEXURE A.1 - LIST OF PROFIT CENTERS........................................................................................ 24
7.1 LIST PROFIT CENTER – SET 1 ................................................................................................................ 24
7.2 LIST PROFIT CENTER – SET 2 ................................................................................................................ 25
7.3 LIST PROFIT CENTER – SET 3 ................................................................................................................ 26
8. ANNEXURE A.2 - LIST OF PLANTS ........................................................................................................ 27
9. ANNEXURE A.3 - LIST OF SHIPPING POINTS ..................................................................................... 29
9.1 SALES SHIPPING LOCATION ................................................................................................................. 29
9.2 SALES SHIPPING LOCATION FOR RETURNS ....................................................................................... 30
10. SIGN OFF SHEET ..................................................................................................................................... 32
10.1 FICO STRUCTURE SIGN OFF .................................................................................................................. 32
10.2 MATERIAL MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE SIGN OFF ............................................................................. 33
10.3 SALES STRUCTURE SIGN OFF .............................................................................................................. 34
10.4 PROJECT SYSTEM STRUCTURE SIGN OFF .......................................................................................... 35
The SAP organisational data structures (SAP hierarchy) form the “backbone” of the SAP system
and are “linked” to every transaction and master data elements in the SAP system. The result is
that the SAP organisational data structure provides the translation of the Organization Structure,
Reporting Requirements and Process Environment of the organization where SAP is being
implemented.
SAP has flexible reporting tools and can extract data in a variety of different ways for
management reporting. The system is dependent upon the most appropriate organisation
structure being built as foundation for the support of data entry, reporting and management.
Be able to organise the system to mirror the business organisation (current and future)
To be able to report using this structure, for monitoring the effectiveness of the
organisation
To be able to adapt to a changing business by building the most flexible structure
possible.
The Organization structure is central to the SAP software and there is no standard feature within
SAP to allow data to be changed to a new structure once it has been posted to the system.
Changes to the structure can only be achieved using conversion programs. This process is very
complex and requires a major investment in terms of time and skilled SAP technical resources.
Changes will likely result in significant modifications to documentation, user manuals, training
materials, scripts etc. Therefore it is critical to consider the future vision of the organization
before finalizing the organization structure in SAP.
Operating concern
Controlling area
Company
Company code
Profit Center
Plant
When we implement the system, we must set up as many organizational units as we need. We
then map the enterprise structures to the organizational units.
Controlling area
Company code
A central R/3 System is set up for enterprise in which all the functions for Accounting and Logistics are
mapped
When we define the organizational structure, we must bear in mind that the different
organizational units in R/3 provide very different reporting options.
Company Code
Master data is created at company code level- balance for customers, vendors etc. are
also maintained at this level.
The general ledger is kept at company code level and is used to create the legally
required balance sheets and profit and loss statements.
Profit Center
Profit centers are used for internal management. Profit centers use key figures such as
return on investment and profit-sales ratio to evaluate performance.
4. Key Drivers
The key drivers that influence how the SAP Organisational Data Structures need to be
defined are as follows:
I. Strategic Vision of the Organization Strategic vision and operational vision of the
company
V. Legal Entity Reporting Capabilities - To provide the ability to meet legal reporting
requirements
VII. Master Record Maintenance - The impact on the volume and complexity of master
record creation and maintenance
IX. Maintenance - Minimization of the system maintenance requirements both for day-
to-day operation and for future evolution of the business.
The purpose of this document is to explain the final recommendation for the SAP
Organisational Structure and the codification logic for the organisational elements to be used
in SIPS.
During Organization structure definition process the Core team undertook the following:
All the options were evaluated in depth by IBM consultants and “PARAM” core team from
SIPS.
The FI module handles the financial transactions for the organisation. It consists of General
Ledger Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting and Treasury. The central
task of G/L accounting is to provide a comprehensive picture of external accounting and
accounts. Recording all business transactions (primary postings as well as settlements from
internal accounting) in a software system that is fully integrated with all the other operational
areas of a company ensures that the accounting data is always complete and accurate. Balance
sheets are traditionally produced from this module in SAP, as this is where the legal entity is
registered.
The CO module handles the cost and profitability accounting for the organization. It consists of
Cost Center Accounting, Product Costing, Profit Center Accounting and Profitability Analysis.
The controlling module specifically caters to internal management reporting requirements on
areas of cost analysis and control, evaluating profitability of business segments, variance
analysis and budgeting.
Company Code
Credit Control Area
Chart of Accounts
Profit Center Accounting
Operating concern
Controlling Area
Cost Centre
SAP Definition
Company Code represents a legal entity that requires a complete set of financial statements
including balance sheet. The Company Code is the key building block upon which all
Enterprise Units depend.
Assignments like home country, fiscal year, chart of accounts, currency and language are
defined for a company code.
Periods, postings, currencies, document types, number ranges and master data need to be
maintained at the company code level. Creating many company codes for a single legal
entity entails significant increase in master data and the need to perform additional
maintenance.
In SIPS, company codes will be defined at the level at which a complete set of financial
statements (including the balance sheet and profit and loss statements) are required. The
company code structure in SIPS will be designed to meet the following:
Codification Logic
All the JV company codes will start with J and rest 3 digits are serial numbers
starting with 001.
Assignments
Many company codes can be assigned to the same credit control area. This enables
monitoring of credit for a customer across multiple company codes.
All company codes for which common cost controlling is to be carried out are assigned to the
same controlling area.
SAP Definition
Credit Control area is the organizational unit in an organization that specifies and checks
credit limits for customers. A credit control area can include one or more company codes.
The credit control area should be defined according to the areas of responsibility for credit
monitoring. Each credit area must have a currency assigned to it. A single credit limit can be
set for a customer across several credit areas. We can maintain a total credit limit for all
credit control areas and an individual credit limit for every credit control area.
Design Rationale
In case of SIPS, one single Credit Control Areas have been created, across Business Lines
Codification Logic
In SAP, the code for Credit Control Area is 4 digit alphanumeric (First Digit 9 and rest 3 digits
are serial numbers starting 001)
SAP Definition
Chart of Accounts is the highest level at which financial accounting information can be
consolidated. All G/L accounts must be assigned to a Chart of Accounts.
Design Rationale
All Business Lines of SIPS viz. the Business Lines will follow a uniform chart of accounts.
In SIPS, there will be one chart of accounts called SIPS. All company codes will be assigned
to the same chart of accounts. Chart of Accounts means the range provided for opening of
GL accounts under Group defined.
SAP Definition
An operating concern is an organizational unit in a company for which the sales market has a
uniform structure. It represents the highest reporting level in Profitability Analysis.
The structure of CO-PA in any system is essentially determined by definition of the following
objects:
The information from sales orders, invoices, process orders, and cost centres are collected
to provide real time analysis of profitability.
Profitability at different levels can be reported based on various criteria at specified levels
e.g. product, customer, and distribution channel.
Design Rationale
There will be one operating concern defined for SIPS Corporation. Profitability analysis will
be done in various dimensions in this operating concern.
SAP Definition
Internal business transactions are reflected in the controlling area. Primary costs are
transferred from external accounting and classified by managerial accounting perspectives. If
the primary cost are direct costs, they are assigned directly to cost objects; if they are
indirect costs, they are assigned to cost centres or internal orders and assigned further using
internal allocation methods.
Design Rationale
There will be one controlling area called SIPS defined for SIPS. All company codes falling
under the umbrella of SIPS will be assigned to this controlling area. Company Code will be
assigned to this controlling area.
Assignments
Controlling Area ‘9000’ will be assigned to Operating Concern ‘9000’. It will be assigned to
the operating concern “9000” for purpose of profitability analysis.
SAP Definition
The cost center is an organizational unit in a controlling area representing a clearly delimited
location where costs occur. The organizational Business Lines can be made on the basis of
functional, locational or responsibility-related standpoints.
Cost centers are used for differentiated assignment of overhead costs to sales activities (cost
calculation functions) and in order to carry out differentiated controlling of costs occurring in
an organization (cost controlling function).
For the purposes of Overhead Cost Controlling, the cost centers are grouped together in
decision, control, and responsibility units. This structure is reflected in the Cost Center
Accounting (CO-OM-CCA) application component. A hierarchical cost center structure will be
defined in SAP to reflect cost centre groups and cost roll ups therein.
Design Rationale
In SIPS, the lowest unit at which it is desired to control costs will be created as a cost centre.
There will be a single cost centre hierarchy created to report costs for the entire corporation.
Cost centre groups will be created to report costs collectively for a group of cost centers. In ,
the lowest unit at which it is desired to control costs will be created as a cost centre. Cost
centre groups will be created to report costs collectively for a group of cost centers. The list
of cost centers for SIPS along with the codification logic and hierarchical assignments is
provided as Annexure 1.
Detailing of cost centers will be listed in FI-CO Key data structure documents. However
codification logic will be numeric for cost centers. The codification in respect of sub cost
centres shall also be aligned and can easily identify by cost centre digits.
SAP Definition
Dividing company into profit centers allows to analyze areas of responsibility and to delegate
responsibility to decentralized units, thus treating them as "companies within the company".
Design Rationale
Since SIPS operates in a single segment (i.e. not having multiple segments as far as
segment reporting is concerned). However, more than one Profit Center may be created in
SIPS for units for which separate financial statement is required (Example can be proposed
power distribution unit which may require separate financial disclosure may be created as a
separate profit center in SIPS company code, if required).
Assignments
Profit center is basically assigned to Material/ Plant combination, Cost centers, Balance
related GL accounts.
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Please refer Annexure A.1 for List of Profit Centers and assignment to Company Codes
CONTROLLING AREA
(SIPS)
The MM module handles the Materials Management transactions for the organization. It consists
of Consumption based planning, Purchasing, External service management, Inventory
management, Vendor evaluation etc.
The key organization elements being used in Material management and Planning in SIPS are:
Plant
Purchasing Organization
Purchase Groups
Storage Location
6.2.1 Plant
SAP Definition
A plant has its own material master data. Data can be maintained at plant level for the
following views on a material master record in particular: MRP, Purchasing, Storage, Work
scheduling, Production resources/tools, Forecasting, Quality management, Sales, Costing.
Design Rationale
SIPS being a project execution oriented organization, it has various projects for planning,
sales, inventory, delivery location / executor. Thus following scenarios arise with respect to
enterprise organization structure. The scenario and its pros / cons are detailed there in:
Pros Cons
Clear inventory visibility, as Quantity For each new Customer Project,
and Value can be seen at Plant level MM and SD configuration to be
Plant wise Authorization is possible done
Clarity in Site to Site transfers Master data maintenance is more
Standard Sub-Contracting Process
works more efficiently.
Plant wise BOM can be used
Service Receipt and Material
Consumption are done at the same
time
Vendor wise Material reconciliation is
done
Standard Reports can be used for
Material reconciliation
Free issue material storage to handle
Scrap Material storage to handle
Fabrication Material and processing
handling
Dismantle Material storage to handle
Pros Cons
Fixed number of Plants in the Inventory visibility is not clear
system Because at Storage location level,
Master data maintenance is only Quantities are tracked, as
minimum Material Valuation is done at Plant
level
To overcome this, we need to use
Project Specific Stock
Project specific procurement does
not support standard sub-
contracting process, which is
essential for Material reconciliation
at SIPS
Authorization restriction cannot be
done at Storage location level.
Even though Service Receipt and
Material consumption can be done,
less control is there, as system will
not suggest Quantities; Also
Storage location needs to be
selected manually
Material reconciliation is to be
developed as standard report will
not suffice the requirement
Recommendation:
Plant to be created Project wise and will attached to single profit centre
Codification Logic
In SAP, Plant is a 4 digit alphanumeric code. In case of SIPS, Plant code will be 4-digit
numeric.
Assignments
The codification logic for Plants and assignments to Company Codes is as per annexure A.2.
Please refer Annexure A.2 for List of Plants & assignment to Company Codes
COMPANY CODE
SIPS 9000
STORES 1
SL01 PROJECT PROJECT PROJECT
STORE1 STORE1 STORE1
SCRAP SCRAP
SCRAP
STORE STORE
STORE
SAP Definition
From the Materials Management and Purchasing view, the purchasing organization is
responsible for all purchasing activities (including the processing of requests for quotations and
purchase orders, for example).
Corporate-group-wide purchasing
Company-specific purchasing
Plant-specific purchasing
Corporate-group-wide purchasing:
Company-specific purchasing:
A purchasing organization is responsible for the purchasing activities of just one company code.
In this case, company code is assigned to the purchasing organization. The purchasing
organization may procure only for this company code. Plants of the company code concerned
only are assigned to the purchasing organization.
Plant-specific purchasing:
Note
If the work involves the mixture of the above organizational forms, in that case reference
purchasing organization is of significance.
It is possible to allow one purchasing organization to access the contracts and conditions of
another - also-called reference purchasing organization. This makes it possible for
advantageous terms negotiated by one purchasing organization to also be used by other
purchasing organizations.
Design Rationale
In SIPS, single Purchasing Organization will be responsible for purchasing activities for all
the plants.
Codification Logic
In case of SIPS codes will be four digits alphabetic. The codification logic for Purchasing
Organization is as follows:
Assignments
Purchase Organization will be assigned to all the Plants which will require purchasing via
that purchase organization. Assignments are as shown below:
SAP Definition
A storage location is the place where stock is physically kept within a plant. In case of virtual
movement of stock through sub-con process or any other process without any physical stock
movement, such locations shall also be storage locations.
In case of physical movement of stock through sub con process to be converted via work in
progress method, such locations shall also be storage locations.
Design Rationale
Each Purchased material Storage area and various despatching location shall be considered
as storage location. However for details, we need to refer Key data structure of Material
Management Module.
Codification Logic
In case of SIPS the codification logic for Storage location shall be defined in MM KDS
document.
Assignments
The organizational structure forms a framework in which all business transactions can be
processed. The structure is critical as it controls the design of the system and the way the
transaction data is captured. Sales organization, distribution channel and division, along with
the sales office, represent the organization structure in the sales and distribution module in
SAP.
The sales and distribution structure is integrated with the financial accounting and materials
management, structures through the assignments of company codes and plants.
Sales Organisation
Distribution Channel
Division
Design Rationale
Core team along with IBM have gone through the details of way of handling sales and have
gone through detailed legal and legal requirement.
SAP Definition
The organization in sales and distribution is represented in the system with the help of sales
organizations. Every sales organization stands for a selling unit in the legal sense, being
responsible, for example, for product liability and other recourse claims made by customers.
Regional subdividing of the market can also be carried out with the help of sales
organizations. Each business transaction is processed within a sales organization.
Design Rationale
In SIPS, the decision to have each single sales organisation as same as single Company
Codes in SAP drives the design of the organisation structure for Sales and Distribution
Module.
Codification Logic
SAP Hierarchy Object Field Length Data Type Allocated Codification Scheme
Sales Organisation 4 Character Four digit alphanumeric
Sales Description
Organisation
9000 Shyam Indus Power Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Assignments
SAP Definition
In order to provide for the market in the best possible way, sales and distribution works with
various distribution channels. Typical distribution channels are, for example, wholesale trade,
retail trade, industrial customers or direct sales from plant.
Design Rationale
In SIPS we have decided to have the distribution channels as shown in the table below. We
have captured the channel used for distribution of all products and services across divisions.
Codification Logic
SAP Hierarchy Object Field Length Data Type Allocated Codification Scheme
Distribution Channel 2 Character Two digit numeric
Assignments
6.3.3 Division
SAP Definition
In the SAP R/3 System we can define a division-specific sales organization. Product groups,
i.e. divisions, can be defined for a wide-ranging spectrum of products. For every division we
can make customer-specific agreements on, for example, partial deliveries, pricing and terms
of payment. Within a division we can carry out statistical analyses or set up separate
marketing. Divisions are represented in SAP by 2 digit codes
SIPS handles the sales in two major categorization which is their product line / business line.
Following will be two divisions for SIPS:
Division Description
10 Sales of Material
20 Services
30 Composite
40 Stock clearance
Codification Logic
SAP Hierarchy Object Field Length Data Type Allocated Codification Scheme
Division 2 Character Alpha- Numeric
.
Assignments
SAP Definition
Organizational unit in Logistics, which carries out shipping processing. The shipping point is
the part of the company responsible for the type of shipping, the necessary shipping materials
and the means of transport.
A shipping point can carry out shipping for several plants. The plant warehouse is determined
fro each shipping point and plant. This is where the goods are to be picked.
Design Rationale
Each location of SIPS defined as a Plant in SAP would also be represented as a Shipping
Point in SAP and would carry the same code. Thus there would be one Shipping Point
attached to each Plant.
Assignments
Please refer Annexure A.3 for shipping points & Plants assignments
Shipping Points
STATE Location PROJECT NAME
for returns
R000 Delhi Delhi Rajouri Garden
R001 C.G Surajpur/Pathalgaon/Khairagarh LT-ABC
/Kawardha/Raipur
R002 C.G Gevra 33KV Binjhari Washery Line
R003 C.G Gevra Batari Civil (Club Building)
R004 C.G Chakabura Batari Electrifican Phase-2
R005 C.G Batari Sewerage treatment plant at Batari
R006 C.G Gevra Batari Street Lighting
R007 C.G Gevra S V Power Boundary Wall
R008 C.G Gevra 33 KV Batari Overhead line to Batari
R009 C.G Gharghoda Earthern Dam Work
R010 C.G Gevra CC Road 2x135 ACB India
R011 C.G Gevra CC Road 1x300 MCCPL
R012 C.G Gharghoda TRN Utility Flats 16 Units
R013 C.G Gharghoda TRN Executive Flats 16 units
R014 C.G Gharghoda RCC Drain TRN 2x300 Power Plant
R015 C.G Gevra MCCPL Boundary Wall
R016 C.G Gevra Lift Instt. Batari Township
R017 C.G Gevra Batari Utility Flats 64 Units
R018 C.G Gevra Batari Executive Flats 96 Units
R019 C.G Gevra AMC 400 kv /132kv line 2x135 MW ACB
to PGCIL Barari