Organizational object (object type key S), which is used to distribute tasks to different posts in an organizational plan as well as to model the reporting structure between posts. Positions are concrete and are occupied by holders (employees or R/3 users), purchasing administrator, European sales manager or secretary in the marketing department, for example.
Positions are different from jobs. A job is not concrete, but rather a resource used to create various positions with similar tasks and features.
Smallest organizational business unit, and, at the same time, requirement planning-, planning-, control-, and also usually regional unit of an enterprise, for which a particular task area is permanently transferred for independent task-execution within the framework of the entire organization, or of its subsystems.