Creating Organizational Units 

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You need to activate enterprise organization for your application component.

For more information, see Customizing for the relevant application component by choosing Enterprise Organization ® Enter Settings for Enterprise Organization.

Check the key date and the preview period and change the information if required. This time interval specifies the processing time frame for the enterprise organization, and is also set as the processing period for the contained CO objects.

1. If you did not generate the enterprise organization from the standard hierarchy, you need to recreate the enterprise organization.

You do this in Customizing for the relevant application component by choosing Enterprise Organization ® Create Enterprise Organization

The standard system contains a new HR organizational unit with the provisional title New Organizational Unit, which you can use as a root organizational unit.

2. In the detail area, overwrite the provisional entries.
3. Save your entries.

1. To create further HR organizational units within an organizational structure, in the overview area select the organizational unit under which the new object is to be assigned.
2. Choose Create ® Organizational unit



You can also copy organizational units that already exist. All of the characteristics of this organizational unit are copied also. You can adjust the data in the detail area.

3. To maintain the data for an HR organizational unit, double-click on the unit in the organizational structure.

1. You can create more cost centers/profit centers:
1. In Customizing for the relevant application component by choosing Enterprise Organization ® Create Enterprise Organization
2. In the relevant application component by choosing Master data ® Enterprise organization ® Change.
2. To create cost centers/profit centers within an organizational structure, go to the overview area and select the HR organizational unit to which the cost center/profit center is to be assigned.
3. Choose Create ® Cost center/Profit center.

The system displays the relevant master data in the detail area. In so doing, the system transfers the data using the inheritance principle (see the Inheritance Principle).



If a CO object is already assigned to an HR organizational unit, you cannot assign any additional CO objects.

4. Maintain the master data for the cost center or profit center.
5. Choose Enter.

For more information, see Customizing in the relevant application, under Enterprise Organization ® Generate Standard Hierarchy or Alternative Hierarchy.

1. You can create groups:
1. In Customizing for the relevant application component by choosing Enterprise Organization ® Create Enterprise Organization
2. In the relevant application component by choosing Master data ® Enterprise organization ® Change.
2. To create groups within an organizational structure, in the overview area, select the HR organizational unit to which the group is to be assigned.

The detail area contains the data on the HR organizational unit for processing.

3. In the detail area on the tab strip CO assignment, choose either Cost center group ® Create, or Profit center group ® Create.
4. Enter the name of the group and a description.