The following structure modeling example concerns a fictitious hardware manufacturer.

Sapo manufactures and distributes PCs, printers, and monitors. It consists of three legally independent companies.

• Sapo Czech Republic manufactures printed circuit boards in four different locations. It supplies two German manufacturing facilities, which produce printers (Hannover) and PCs (Munich).
• Sapo Germany includes these two facilities and a plant in Berlin, which manufactures monitors.
• Sapo Ireland manufactures casings for PCs, printers, and monitors. It supplies the three German facilities.
• Sapo buys keyboards from a third-party supplier.

Modeling is limited to this example; no attempt has been made to include all the Enterprise Modeler's options. Instead, the example shows you how to use structure modeling to portray a conceptual design (the Business Blueprint) that meets your needs. You can portray and analyze enterprise structures in different scenarios. This will enable you to map your requirements to R/3 organizational units as closely as possible.

The structure of the example enterprise is portrayed in the following ways: