Organizational unit 

Definition

Represents a functional unit in your enterprise, marketing department, for example. According to how tasks are divided up within an enterprise, this could be a department, group or project team, 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, for example) in the corresponding components.

Use

You depict the functional units of your enterprise with  organizational units. You create an organizational structure  by assigning these organizational units to each other. The highest organizational unit in an organizational structure is the root organizational unit.

You can store characteristics for each organizational unit. These can be

·         evaluated using reports

·         inherited by subordinate positions (work schedules, for example)

Structure

To define characteristics of an organizational unit, you can store time-specific data for the following areas in the Organization and Staffing view:

·        Basic Data

·        Account Assignment

·        Cost distribution

·        Address

·        Work schedule

·        Quota planning

In the Organization and Staffing (Workflow) view, you can store data on the following:

·        Basic Data

·        Account Assignment

See also:

Editing the Organizational Structure

Integration

You can create staff assignments for every organizational unit within an organizational structure.

You can relate an organizational unit to a cost center. For more information, see the SAP Library under Accounting ® Controlling ® Methods in Controlling ® Authorizations ® Enterprise Organization.