Depending on the user department to which you belong, you may need to enter additional organizational levels and control parameters. One important factor is the organizational level at which the data is managed.
The following table shows you which data you must/can specify, and when.
User Departments and Required/Optional Entries
User department |
Field |
Entry |
Accounting |
Plant (if valuation at plant level) Company code (if valuation at company code level) |
Mandatory Mandatory |
Basic data |
N/A |
N/A |
Classification |
N/A |
N/A |
Costing |
Plant |
Mandatory |
Forecasting |
Plant Forecast profile |
Mandatory Optional |
MRP |
Plant Storage location MRP profile |
Mandatory Optional Optional |
Production resources/tools |
Plant |
Mandatory |
Purchase order text |
Plant |
Optional |
Purchasing |
Plant |
Optional |
Quality management |
Plant |
Mandatory |
Sales: sales organization data |
Plant Sales organization Distribution channel |
Optional Mandatory Dependent on sales organization |
Sales: general/plant data |
Plant Sales organization Distribution channel |
Optional Optional Dependent on sales organization |
Sales text |
Plant Sales organization Distribution channel |
Optional Optional Dependent on sales organization |
Storage |
Plant Storage location |
Optional Optional |
Warehouse management |
Plant Warehouse number Storage type |
Optional Mandatory Optional |
Work scheduling |
Plant |
Mandatory |