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SAP MM organizational structure

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From the course: Learning SAP MM (Materials Management)

SAP MM organizational structure

- [Instructor] Each SAP module has its own organizational structure that defines the relationships between different departments and enables effective transactions in the system. Let's look at the components of a typical materials management organizational structure. The materials management organizational structure contains organizational units from the MM module and also adopts a unit from the Finance module. First we'll look at plants. A plant handles planning, purchasing, and the distribution of goods and services to customers under a single company code. Companies have flexibility on how they use plants. Depending on their needs, a plant can be a manufacturing facility, an office or a distribution center. Next we have storage locations. Storage locations literally are the physical locations where stock is kept within a plant. Storage locations are used to record goods movements in and out of inventory. Next, we…

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