organizational unit (PA-OS)

Organizational Structure (PA-OS)

An organizational object (object type key O) that you use to depict the basic structure of an organizational plan.

Organizational units are functional units of an enterprise. Depending on how tasks are distributed in an enterprise, an organizational unit can be a department, group, or project team, for example.

Organizational units are different from other enterprise entities, such as company codes, business areas, and personnel areas. Those enterprise entities are used, for example, to depict administrative or accounting structures in the corresponding components.