Creating a Company (SAP Library - Training and Event Management (PE))

Creating a Company

Use

In this step, you can create companies that could have the following functions in Training and Event Management:

external organizer of seminars, conventions, sales events and so on

potential organizer of a business event type

actual organizer assigned to a business event

external instructor, external attendee, or event owner

You store address data for companies, such as telephone number, fax, and so on.

Procedure

On the SAP Easy Access screen, in the SAP Standard Menu choose Human Resources ® Training and Events ® Business Events ® Settings ® Current Settings ® Organizer ® Create. A dialog box appears in which you can select the organizer type Company. Choose . The Company: Initial Screen appears.

On the initial screen, enter the validity period of the new company.
Choose . The data screen Create Company appears.
Enter an abbreviation and a long name for the company.
Enter address data as required:

An address supplement (e.g. box number or c/o)
A house number and street
A postal code and city or town

A country key (e.g. DE for Germany)

A regional code (e.g. 08 for Baden-Württemberg).

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Enter the country key first and then use the possible entries help to select a regional code.

Specification of the distance in kilometers is not relevant at this point, so no entry is required here

Telephone number of the company.

Fax number of the company.

Choose .

Result

You have created a company in the system.

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Once you have created your first object, or if an object already exists in the system, you can use this as a template for any further objects you want to create. To do so, you enter the ID of the object you want to use as a template in the Company field in the Copy from box. The data of the existing object is proposed on the data screen. You can overwrite data as required for your new object.

Note

The settings made under Basic Settings ® Dialog Control ® Current Settings ® Maintain Actions affect the data maintenance activities you can carry out for companies. Here, which infotypes are maintained for object types is defined.