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Organizational Units: Purchasing Organization - Definition

The document discusses different organizational units in SAP. The purchasing organization is responsible for agreeing on purchase conditions and executing purchase contracts for one or more plants. The client corresponds to a corporate group from a business perspective. Storage locations enable differentiation of material stocks within a single plant and quantitative inventory management is performed at the storage location level.

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Organizational Units: Purchasing Organization - Definition

The document discusses different organizational units in SAP. The purchasing organization is responsible for agreeing on purchase conditions and executing purchase contracts for one or more plants. The client corresponds to a corporate group from a business perspective. Storage locations enable differentiation of material stocks within a single plant and quantitative inventory management is performed at the storage location level.

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Organizational Units
Purchasing organization - definition

Purcha sing organization

The purchasing organization is an organizational level, where purchase conditions for one or more plants are agreed upon with the vendors. It is also legally responsible for the execution of the purchase contracts. The purchasing group is a key for a buyer or group of buyers responsible for certain purchasing activities.

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Organizational Units
Client

Client

In commercial, organizational and technical terms, a self-contained unit in an R/3 System with separate master records and its own set of tables.

From business aspects, client corresponds to a corporate group

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Organizational Units
Plant and storage location

Storage location
Storage locations enable the differentiation of material stocks within a single plant.

Storage location

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Through the use of storage locations, you can differentiate the stocks within a single plant. Quantitative inventory management within a plant is performed at storage location level. Inventory is performed at storage location level.

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