Assignment to Plant/Location/Address

Assignment to Plant/Location/Address

Use

The meanings of the organizational units "plant" and "location" are primarily specified in the SAP R/3 logistics components. You can define both plant and location in R/3 Customizing (Enterprise Structure ® Maintain structure).

Features

Plant

Generally, the plant is a plant location or branch. The plant has no asset accounting relevance, but it can be used as a sort and selection criterion for reports. You can assign a fixed asset to one plant for a set time using asset master data maintenance. By changing the asset master record, you can change the assignment to a different plant.

Location

The location is handled the same as the plant. In addition to a plant, you can make a time-dependent assignment of the asset to a location.

Address

In the Customizing definition of the location, you can also specify an address (under Edit). Using this method, you can indirectly assign an address to an asset. The comprehensive address data consists mainly of

Street address
PO box
Information for communication (such as telephone number)

Since the address is linked to the location, all assets with the same location must have the same address.

You can obtain reports related to the address using a standard report in the FI-AA Information System (refer to Asset Lists). You can list display the address of an asset in the asset master data transaction using Environment.

You can use the address to assist in determining net worth tax burden in the USA.