Flexible organizational units make it possible to reproduce even the most complex corporate structures in the R/3 system. The large number of organizational units available in the R/3 system enables you to reflect the legal and organizational structure of your company in the system and represent it from different viewpoints.

The most important organizational units are listed below. Their meaning in SAP Retail is described briefly. Many organizational units are also data retention levels; this means that if there is more than one of a particular organizational unit, different data can be stored for each one.