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31/12/2019 SAP e-book

Lesson: Identifying the Organizational Units in Procurement

● Production facility
● Regional sales office
● Corporate headquarters
● Maintenance location

A plant is defined in the system by a four-character alphanumeric key that is unique to it in the
client.

Storage Location
The storage location is an organizational unit that facilitates the differentiation of stocks of
materials within a plant. Inventory management on a quantity basis is carried out in the plant
at the storage location level. The physical inventory is also carried out at this level.
A storage location is defined by a four-character alphanumeric key. The key is unique within a
plant.

Enterprise Structure

Discovery Edition.
Discovery Edition.

Figure 18: Organizational Levels in Inventory Management

The enterprise structure is created by the assignment of organizational levels to each other.
Therefore, a client may contain several company codes, and a company code may contain
several plants. However, a plant can only ever belong to one company code.

Note:
Since the key of a plant is unique in a client, and a plant can only belong to one
company code, by specifying the plant, you simultaneously specify the company
code.

Several storage locations may be assigned to a plant, but a specific storage location can only
belong to one plant. Storage locations are defined especially for a plant and are therefore
assigned to this plant. The key of a storage location need only be unique within a plant. Within

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