Organizational units (SAP Library

Organizational units

Definition

Organizational object (object key O) used to form the basis of an organizational plan. Organizational units are functional units in an enterprise. According to how tasks are divided up within an enterprise, these can be departments, groups or project teams, for example.

Organizational units differ from other units in an enterprise such as personnel areas, company codes, business areas etc. These are used to depict structures (administration or accounting) in the corresponding components.

Use

By depicting your organizational units and the hierarchical or matrix relationships between them, you model the organizational structure of your enterprise.

This organizational structure is the basis for the creation of an organizational plan, as every position in your enterprise is assigned to an organizational unit. This defines the reporting structure.

Integration

An organizational unit can be related, amongst other things, to:

other organizational units via relationship A/B 002 (reports to / is line manager of).

positions via relationship A/B 003 (belongs to / includes) and A/B 012 (manages / is managed by).

tasks via relationship A/B 007 (describes / is described by)
a master cost center via relationship A 011 (cost center assignment) or with several cost centers via relationship A 014 (cost center distribution)