Mapping the Organizational Structure

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to identify the objects used to map an organizational structure

Organizational Plan

An organizational plan depicts the organizational structure and is used to represent the relationships between individual departments and work groups.

The organizational plan depicts the organizational structure. A company uses an organizational plan to represent the relationships between individual departments and work groups. The SAP system uses organizational units for this. For example, the Purchasing department or organizational unit has 12 positions and employs one secretary, one manager, and 10 purchasers.

Persons (employees) are a fundamental part of the organizational structure and carry out various activities.

Organizational Management

Organizational units describe the different departments in the enterprise. Many organizational units together form an organizational structure.

Depending on the enterprise-specific requirements, you can divide organizational units generally (for example, according to regional aspects) or more precisely (for example, according to project group).

Job

A job is the general classification for a set of tasks in an enterprise such as salesperson, consultant, and manager. You can assign characteristics to define the jobs further. In this way, you can create valid job descriptions for several positions with similar tasks and characteristics.

Positions

Positions represent a specific job entity and are occupied by persons. When you create a new position such as European Manager, you can link it to an existing job such as Administrator. This ensures that the new position automatically inherits the tasks and characteristics assigned to the job.

You assign the employees in your company to positions. This ensures that the employees are included in the organizational structure. By using additional data created in the system, you can also map the reporting structure of your company.

Example: You have employees who you assigned to a position in the Organizational Assignment infotype (0001). The pay for this position is made in EUROs. The employee is to be remunerated with the value for this position (ARBPL module is pay based on position. For more information on this, refer to the the Wage Type Structure unit).

Organizational Structure at Enterprise Level

The figure Organizational Structure at the Enterprise Level shows how you can map an enterprise’s organizational structure in the SAP system and define the different departments and subdivisions as organizational units. This often reflects an enterprise’s cost center hierarchy.

Organizational Structure at Position Level

The figure Organizational Structure at the Position Level shows how to depict an organizational structure in the SAP system where employees occupy individual positions.

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