Identifying Organizational Units for Supply Chain Execution

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to describe the organizational units for supply chain execution

Integration of the Organizational Units

Note

View the following video to understand how the organizational units plant, shipping point and warehouse are all related to each other:

Note

The assignment of the warehouse as mentioned above refers to the three-character ERP warehouse number, which defines the type of warehouse management that is used. For example, in the case of embedded EWM, this ERP warehouse number is then connected to an EWM warehouse number.

Transportation Planning Point:

A transportation planning point is usually assigned to a company code. This specific connection is required for calculating and settling freight costs when using LE-TRA. You can connect a transportation planning point to only one company code.

Integration in the overall Organizational Structure

This is what the complete organizational structure of a company from the point of logistical processing could look like:

A plant is assigned to a company code. A storage location is uniquely defined within a plant. A transportation planning point is assigned to a company code. A plant is assigned to a company code as well. A shipping point is assigned to one or more plants. A plant can have one or more shipping points assigned to it. An ERP warehouse number is assigned to a combination of a plant and a storage location.

Identify Organizational Units in Logistics Execution

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