5. Organizational Levels
Client - Unit with its own data, master records and own
set of tables
Company – Independent accounting unit within a client
Plant – Organizational logistics unit
Storage Location – Separates material stocks within
a plant
Purchasing Organization – A legal procurement
entity
Purchasing Group – A buyer or group of buyers
6. SAP IDES Organizational Structure
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7. SAP Stored Data
Data Dictionary
Meta Data
Data on the structure of User Tables
User Data
Master Data
Data that does not change much
Examples include Vendors, Customers, Material
Transaction Data
Data that pertains to events and actions
Examples include Purchase Orders, Invoices, Production
Orders
8. Manufacturing Master Data
Material Master
Contains data on every item bought, sold, built, used in the business.
Heart of the SAP system
Bill of Material (BOM)
Hierarchical structure of components to build a product
Work Center
A physical place or group were work activity takes place
Routing
The path taken through various work centers in the assembly of a
component or product
Cost Center
A logical area of cost behavior for labor, setup and machine time
associated with activity that can be assigned to work centers.
9. Material Master Data
The material master is the heart of the SAP system.
Any item maintained (bought, sold, produced, stored)
must be in the material master.
Material Master Consists of data such as:
Material ID, Material Description, Unit of Measure,
Weight, Standard Cost, Average Cost, Production Time,
Lead Time, Material Type, Inventory Level, Planning Type
Material Master has many views that can be updated by
various areas depending on their use of the data.
Production
Purchasing
Accounting
10. Material Master Views
Purchasing
Sales
Work Scheduling
Quality Management
Forecasting
Classification
Basic Data
Material Resource Planning
Stocks in Inventory
Accounting
Storage
Warehouse Management
11. Material Master Data
Purchasing data for ordering
Inventory management data for posting goods
movement and managing inventory
Accounting data for material valuation
MRP data for Material Requirements Planning
Data is used by many areas of the business
20. Material Master Org Levels
Data valid for the entire company
Material No, Desc, units of measure
Data valid for a plant
Purchasing, MRP, forecasting, work scheduling
Data valid for a storage Location
Storage Bin configuration and types
21. Some Different Material Types in SAP
Raw Materials
Operating Supplies
Semi-finished Goods
Finished Goods
22. The Material Type controls the following:
Whether the material is intended for a specific purpose, for example,
as a configurable material or process material
Whether the material number can be assigned internally or
externally
The number range from which the material number is taken
Which screens appear and in what sequence
Which departmental data you may enter
What procurement type the material has; that is, whether it is
manufactured in-house or procured externally, or both
Which accounts are posted when posted to stock or leaves
inventory
23. The Industry Sector controls the following:
Mechanical Engineering
Plant Engineering
Chemical Industry
Controls which screens and in which order
Controls display of industry-specific fields
24. Bill of Material
Structured list of components that make up a product or assembly
Single Level
A BOM in SAP can consist of multiple Single Level BOMs
Header
ItemItem
25. The BOM is used in:
MRP
Explodes the product demand to its lower level assemblies and
purchased components
Work Scheduling
Exploded demand is used to determine production schedules
Procurement
Exploded demand can drive purchase requisitions and lines
items for blanket purchase orders.
Product Costing
Exploded relationships can be used to roll up costs of lower
level assemblies and components