Simple Maintenance in Expert Mode is one of the methods you can use to develop and model organizational plans in the component Organizational Management with speed and efficiency.

In addition to mapping your current organizational and reporting structure, Simple Maintenance gives you flexible tools to plan and model future structural changes well in advance.

Although Simple Maintenance is available to all users of Organizational Management, it was originally designed to meet the needs of SAP Business Workflow users.

SAP Business Workflow users do not need all the functions available in Organizational Management. For this reason, the original concept behind Simple Maintenance was to provide a tool that allows users to build and maintain organizational plans, with speed and simplicity.

• Simple Maintenance uses a tree structure, which allows you to create a basic framework for organizational plans, using streamlined procedures. In this way, you can create your organizational and reporting structures step by step.

• There are three main areas in Simple Maintenance. Each area contains particular maintenance functions, depending on whether you want to edit organizational structures, staff assignments or task profiles.