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  Enterprise Structure

Definition

Structure of company according to personnel administrative, time management and payroll perspectives from the point of view of your own company

The company structure describes elements of the company and there dependencies.

Structure

The enterprise structure in Personnel Administration consists of the following:

  • Client

    The client is, in accordance with commercial law, an organizational and data technical isolated unit within the ERP system, with separate master records and its own separate record of tables.A client’s area of jurisdiction can correspond to a unit as small as a company, or as large as an entire enterprise.

  • Company code

    The company code is the smallest organizational unit of external accounting in which a complete and isolated financial accounting can be created.All events that affect the company code and the creation of all statements for a legal financial statement, for example balances, profit and loss calculation are contained within the company code organizational units.

  • Personnel area

    The personnel area is an organizational unit; according to a personnel administrative, time management and payroll organizational point of view, a personnel area represents a delimited enterprise area. The personnel area is only used in Personnel Administration and is unique within a client.

    Personnel areas are sub-divided into personnel subareas. Organizational data and guidelines as how to assign it, are stored on a personnel area and personnel subarea level.The rules and guidelines could be of a legal, pay scale and collective agreement, or internal nature.A personnel area is assigned to a company code which has the financial accounting values that are relevant for the personnel area.A pay scale area, a pay scale type and a public holiday calendar are precisely defined for a personnel subarea.

    Example Example

    The personnel area in a software company can be subdivided into development, training and administration personnel subareas.

    End of the example.

  • Personnel subarea

    The personnel subarea is only used in Personnel Administration . The groupings linked to the personnel subarea determine which entries from the subsequent screen are allowed for an employee of a particular company code/personnel area.

    Groupings are used for validation of master and time data.Groupings are also used to check the plausibility of data that you enter.

  • Organizational key

    The organizational key enables you to define the organizational assignment more exactly. The organizational key can consist of elements from the enterprise structure and personnel structure.

If you require further information on the corporate structure, please see the Elements of the Enterprise Structure section.

Integration

The Hiring personnel action enables you to assign employees to the enterprise structure. The data is stored in the Organizational Assignment (0001) infotype . This infotype is essential for authorization checks.