Business Term Definition


A Plant is a site where the company operates. It can be an internal production site, a site operated by a toller, a storage site, or even a pure administrative site. It is used to locate costs and production lines, and to determine the industrial origin of the material batches.

The recommended SAP rule is "1 plant = 1 legal entity x 1 address".

Every plant must contain certain mandatory sub-elements for the Financial consolidation and the operations. For the Finance, at minimum 1 cost center and links to consolidation structures. For the Supply Chain operations, at minimum 1 warehouse (storage location) and 1 shipping point (used to organize the deliveries and the logistics). For the industrial operations, when relevant, at minimum 1 work center, 1 profit center.


Roles






Data Sources, Type and Classification

SAP

Master Data

Internal Data


Data Protection and Update Frequency

Only specific roles can make updates

Every time a plant is created/modified for a Business flow (daily)


Data Quality Issues and Rules

  1. Consistency - No active plants linked to obsolete companies
  2. Consistency - Active plants linked to no active materials
  3. Consistency - T134G - active plants linked to inactive business area


Related Business Terms

Business TermDescriptionLink
Batch Origin_P

The characteristic Batch Origin_P comes from the posting COPA. It corresponds to the characteristic IndustOrigin.

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Industrial OriginOrigin = production center.

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Origin Mat./PlantTBD

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Origin Plant

The characteristic Origin Plant comes from the posting COPA. It corresponds to the QM characteristic Origin Plant.

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Plant

A Plant is a site where the company operates.

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Plant Country

Country in which the Plant is located.

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Product Group Plant TBD

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Production Plant in Material_WTBD

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