Use
You create organizational units to create or change the organizational structure of your enterprise.
Prerequisites
You need to activate
enterprise organization for your application component.For more information, see Customizing for the relevant application component by choosing Enterprise Organization ®
Enter Settings for Enterprise Organization.Check the
key date and the preview period and change the information if required. This time interval specifies the processing time frame for the enterprise organization, and is also set as the processing period for the contained CO objects.Procedure
Creating a Root Organizational Unit
You do this in Customizing for the relevant application component by choosing Enterprise Organization ®
Create Enterprise OrganizationThe standard system contains a new
HR organizational unit with the provisional title New Organizational Unit, which you can use as a root organizational unit.Creating Additional HR Organizational Units
You can also
copy organizational units that already exist. All of the characteristics of this organizational unit are copied also. You can adjust the data in the detail area.Creating Cost Centers/Profit Centers
The system displays the relevant master data in the detail area. In so doing, the system transfers the data using the inheritance principle (see the
Inheritance Principle).If a CO object is already assigned to an HR organizational unit, you cannot assign any additional CO objects.
The system saves the master data as
The system displays the assignment of the cost center/profit center to the HR organizational unit of the structure in the overview area.
You can currently maintain only cost center and profit center master data in the enterprise organization. You can display the master data for controlling area and company code only from the organizational structure.
For more information about cost center master data, see
For more information about profit center master data, see
Profit Centers.Creating Cost Center Groups/Profit Center Groups
To generate a standard or alternative hierarchy from the enterprise organization, you must create the cost center groups or profit center groups first.
For more information, see Customizing in the relevant application, under Enterprise Organization ®
Generate Standard Hierarchy or Alternative Hierarchy.The detail area contains the data on the HR organizational unit for processing.
The system transfers the group to HR organizational unit assignment to the structure in the overview area.
If you have not yet generated a group in the standard hierarchy from the enterprise organization, you can subsequently change the group name and the description.
If a cost center or a group is already assigned to an HR organizational unit, you cannot assign an additional group.