An organization unit represents a functional unit in your enterprise. For example a marketing department. According to how tasks are divided up within an enterprise, this could be a department, group or project team, for example.

Organizational units differ from other units in an enterprise such as personnel areas, company codes, business areas etc. These are used to depict structures (administration or accounting, for example) in the corresponding components.

In simple terms, a work center is a place where work is carried out. A work center is generally either an individual machine or a group of machines, however, a person or a group of people can also constitute a work center. An operation is carried out there.

If you want to carry out a standard values calculation, you must specify the work center where the operation is going to be processed. You specify the work center for which the standard values are to be calculated in the operation in the routing. Technical data describing the work center from the point of view of the standard values calculation must be assigned to this work center. Machine data and rounding and additional value keys are examples of technical data. In the technical data you also enter the processes that are assigned to the work center.

In SAP, a work center can also be defined as: