Define, copy,
delete, check plant
The
plant is an operating area or branch within a company.
The plant is embedded in the organizational
structure as follows:
- The plant is assigned to a single
company code. A company code can have several plants.
- Several
storage locations in which material stocks are managed can belong
to a plant.
- A plant can have several shipping points. A
shipping point can be assigned to several plants.
- A plant can be defined as a planning
plant.
A plant has the following
attributes:
- A plant belongs to a country.
- A plant has its own material master data. You
can maintain data 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.
The plant plays an important role in the
following areas:
If the
valuation level is the plant, the material stocks are valuated at
plant level. If the valuation level is the plant, you can define the material
prices for each plant. Each plant can have its own
account determination.
The material stocks
are managed within a plant.
Material
requirements are planned for each plant. Each plant has its own MRP data.
Analyses for materials planning can be made across plants.
If a plant performs
plant maintenance planning tasks, it is defined as a maintenance planning
plant. A maintenance planning plant can also carry out planning tasks for
other plants (maintenance plants).
Further
Notes
Choose "Administer" or "Copy, delete, check
plant" to work on a plant. The system changes the plant table and all
dependent Customizing and system tables where the plant occurs as a key. For
more, see
Copy/Delete/Check / Edit Project IMG .
Recommendation
Plant 0001 is already preset in all dependent
tables. SAP recommends that you change only the attributes and not this
number. For further settings, this enables you to access the sample entries,
considerably reducing the time required for maintenance. To create new plants,
use the Extended Copyer to make copies of Plant 0001.
Activities
1. Create your
plants and their respective local data, referring closely to the reference
(plant 0001) provided by SAP.
2. You can also
copy, delete or check environment data.
3. You the
Project IMG view to work on the data the system has changed. The generated
project view is retained so you can do this work later.