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Procedure documentation Creating Chief Positions  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Prerequisites

A chief position is a position you designate as the leader of a particular organizational unit. It is not mandatory to create chief positions.

If you create chief positions, you are creating relationship records between organizational units and positions. (This is relationship A/B 012.)

The system allows you to create numerous positions as chief positions, even though they are assigned to the same organizational unit. (In some companies, certain areas may be led by more than one person.) You must make sure the chief position designation is appropriate.

You can work with chief positions in the Basic organizational plan, and Reporting structure areas of Simple Maintenance. If you work in the Reporting structure area, there is an extra feature. The system automatically creates relationship records to indicate that other positions report to the chief position. (This is relationship A/B 002.) This is a fast way to build up your reporting structure.

Procedure

  1. On the Change Reporting Structure screen, choose the position you want as chief position of the organizational unit.
  2. Choose Edit ® Chief Position ® Create

    3. The Create Chief dialog box appears, displaying the organizational unit, and the position.

  3. If necessary, choose Period to adjust the validity period suggested for the relationship between positions and the organizational unit.

    4. The Validity Period dialog box appears.

    1. In the Validity Period fields, enter data as required.
    2. Choose Continue.

    Otherwise, skip to step 4.

  4. Choose Create.

    5. The system saves the relationship record. A second dialog box appears, asking if the other positions in the organizational unit should report to the chief position.

  5. To subordinate the other positions, choose Yes.

    6. The Select Positions dialog box appears, displaying the proposed hierarchy.

    1. Select the positions that should be subordinated.
    2. Save your entries.

To decline the assignment, choose No.

Result

The Change Reporting Structure screen appears. The position created as chief position is indicated by a hat icon.