SAP Organization
structure
Plant Maintenance
Organizational Units
• Client : It is the highest hierarchical unit in the SAP system. All areas of an
organization that are to be integrated into SAP, should be included under
one client.
• Controlling area : An organization unit within a company used to represent
a closed system for cost accounting purpose.A controlling area may include
single or multiple company codes that may use different currencies. These
company codes must use the same operative chart of accounts. All internal
allocations refer exclusively to objects in the same controlling area.
• Plant : A plant is an organizational unit within Logistics, serving to subdivide
an enterprise according to procurement, maintenance, and materials
planning. By default any production plant is a maintenance plant from plant
maintenance perspective.
• Maintenance planning plant : Maintenance planning plant is a logical location
where the maintenance activities on technical objects are planned. The
Maintenance Planner Groups who plan and monitor the maintenance
activities are defined at the maintenance planning plants. Maintenance
planning plants determine if the maintenance planning is centralized,
decentralized or partially centralized.
• If maintenance is centralized, then there would be one Maintenance Planning
Plant for all the Maintenance Plants. if it is decentralized, then there would be
a Maintenance Planning Plant for each Maintenance Plant. if it is partially
decentralized, then there would be Maintenance Planning Plants, looking
after a few Maintenance Plants each.
• Locations : Location is a place in a maintenance plant at which a technical
object is physically located. It allows a plant to be classified according to
spatial or situation criteria.
• Locations are used for informative assignment only. We can only use Locations
as a match code or as parameter criteria in reporting.
• Plant section : Plant sections are processing units/ production areas within a
maintenance plant. These are subdivision of maintenance plants. Machines or sets of
machines that are represented in the system as pieces of equipment or functional
locations are installed in plant sections.
• We can indicate the place for which a maintenance task was requested with the plant
section. We also, can establish a contact person for Plant Maintenance using the plant
section. Plant sections are assigned to Maintenance plants.
• Maintenance planner groups : A group of employees responsible for planning and
processing maintenance tasks in a plant. Planner groups or Maintenance Planner
groups must be defined separately for each planning plant. Depending on the size and
structure of your company, a maintenance planning group may be an individual
department (for central work preparation), a group of Technician or a workshop.
• Work Center : Work Center is an organizational unit that defines where and when an
operation must be performed. The Work Center has an available capacity. The activities
performed at or by the Work Center are evaluated by charge rates, which are
determined by Cost Centers and Activity types. Centers and Activity types are defined
and detailed in Finance & Controlling Module. Work Centers can be: Machines, People,
Production lines or Groups of craftsmen.
