When you first install and customize the SAP System, you have to set up your organizational units (see Organizational Units and Basic Settings). You can speed up this process using the country templates, which help you set up the organizational units so that they are suitable for use in a particular country.

1. Apply the country template to the sample organizational units.



To do so, you run the Country Installation Program. What this does is to take the sample organizational units that are supplied with the standard SAP System (a) (all those organizational units with the number 0001, for example, company code 0001, sales organization 0001, and plant 0001) and apply the country template of your choice (b) to them. This changes the settings in the sample organizational units so that they are customized for the country that you want (c).

2. Copy the sample organizational units.



To do so, you use the appropriate Implementation Guide (IMG) activities under Enterprise Structure. It is these copies (d) that you will use in production operation and which you now have to customize. When you copy the organizational units, you have to give them a new name. In the diagram, the organizational units for the United States have been renamed USAA.

The original sample organizational units (c) will be overwritten the next time you run the Country Installation Program and must not be used for any purpose other than with this report.

3. Repeat the process until you have created all the units you need.