hese are some basic questions in OM module.

You can find the answers for these

questions on the SAP help portal:

1. What are plan versions used for?

2. What are the basic object types?
3. What is the difference between a job and a position?
4. What is the difference between an organizational unit and a work center?
5. Where can you maintain relationships between objects?
6. What are the main areas of the Organization and Staffing user interfaces?
7. What is Expert Mode used for?
8. Can you create cost centers in Expert Mode?
9. Can you assign people to jobs in Expert Mode?
10. Can you use the organizational structure to create a matrix organization?
11. In general structure maintenance, is it possible to represent the legal entity of
organizational units?
12. What is the Object Infotype (1000) used for?
13. What is the Relationships Infotype (1001) used for?
14. Which status can Infotypes in the Organizational Management component have?
15. What is an evaluation path?
16. What is Managers Desktop used for?
17. Is it possible to set up new evaluation paths in Customizing?
18. Which situations require new evaluation paths?
19. How do you set up integration between Personnel Administration and Organizational
Management?

ANSWERS
1. What are plan versions used for?
Ans : Plan versions are scenarios in which you can create organizational plans.
In the plan version which you have flagged as the active plan version, you create
your current valid organizational plan. This is also the integration plan version which will
be used if integration with Personnel Administration is active.
You use additional plan versions to create additional organizational plans as
planning scenarios.
As a rule, a plan version contains one organizational structure, that is, one root
organizational unit. It is, however, possible to create more than one root organizational
unit, that is more than one organizational structure in a plan version.
For more information on creating plan versions, see the Implementation Guide (IMG),
under Personnel Management  Global Settings in Personnel Management
 Plan Version Maintenance.
2. What are the basic object types?
Ans. An organization object type has an attribute that refers to an object of the
organization management (position, job, user, and so on). The organization object type
is linked to a business object type.
Example
The business object type BUS1001 (material) has the organization object type T024L
(laboratory) as the attribute that on the other hand has an object of the organization
management as the attribute. Thus, a specific material is linked with particular
employees using an assigned laboratory.
3. What is the difference between a job and a position?
Ans. Job is not a concrete, it is General holding various task to perform which is
generic.(Eg: Manager, General Manager, Executive).
Positions are related to persons and Position is concrete and specific which are
occupied by Persons. (Eg: Manager - HR, GM HR, Executive - HR).
4. What is the difference between an organizational unit and a work centre?
Ans. Work Centre : A work center is an organizational unit that represents a suitablyequipped zone where assigned operations can be performed. A zone is a physical
location in a site dedicated to a specific function.
Organization Unit : Organizational object (object key O) used to form the basis of an
organizational plan. Organizational units are functional units in an enterprise. According
to how tasks are divided up within an enterprise, these can be departments, groups or
project teams, 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) in the corresponding components.

5. Where can you maintain relationships between objects?

Ans. Infotype 1001 that defines the Relationships between different objects.
There are many types of possible relationships between different objects. Each
individual relationship is actually a subtype or category of the Relationships infotype.
Certain relationships can only be assigned to certain objects. That means that when you
create relationship infotype records, you must select a relationship that is suitable for
the two objects involved. For example, a relationship between two organizational units
might not make any sense for a work center and a job.
6. What are the main areas of the Organization and Staffing user interfaces?
Ans. You use the user interface in the Organization and Staffing or Organization and
Staffing (Workflow) view to create, display and edit organizational plans.

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The user interface is divided into various areas, each of it which fulfills specific
functions.
Search Area
Selection Area
Overview Area
Details Area
Together, the search area and the selection area make up the Object Manager.
7. What is Expert Mode used for?
Ans. interface is used to create Org structure. Using Infotypes we can create Objects in
Expert mode and we have to use different transactions to create various types of
objects. If the company needs to create a huge structure, we will use Simple
maintenance, because it is user friendly that is it is easy to create a structure, the
system automatically relationship between the objects.
8. Can you create cost centers in Expert Mode?
Ans. Probably not. You create cost center assignments to assign a cost center to an
organizational unit, or position.
When you create a cost center assignment, the system creates a relationship record
between the organizational unit or position and the cost center. (This is relationship A/B
011.) No assignment percentage record can be entered.
9. Can you assign people to jobs in Expert Mode?
10. Can you use the organizational structure to create a matrix organization?
Ans. By depicting your organizational units and the hierarchical or matrix relationships
between them, you model the organizational structure of your enterprise.
This organizational structure is the basis for the creation of an organizational plan, as
every position in your enterprise is assigned to an organizational unit. This defines the
reporting structure.

11. In general structure maintenance, is it possible to represent the legal entity of

organizational units?
12. What is the Object Infotype (1000) used for?
Ans. Infotype that determines the existence of an organizational object.
As soon as you have created an object using this infotype, you can determine additional
object characteristics and relationships to other objects using other infotypes.
To create new objects you must:
Define a validity period for the object
Provide an abbreviation to represent the object
Provide a brief description of the object
The validity period you apply to the object automatically limits the validity of any infotype
records you append to the object. The validity periods for appended infotype records
cannot exceed that of the Object infotype.
The abbreviation assigned to an object in the system renders it easily identifiable. It is
helpful to use easily recognizable abbreviations.
You can change abbreviations and descriptions at a later time by editing object infotype
records. However, you cannot change an objects validity period in this manner. This
must be done using the Delimit function.
You can also delete the objects you create. However, if you delete an object the system
erases all record of the object from the database. You should only delete objects if they
are not valid at all (for example, if you create an object accidentally)
13. What is the Relationships Infotype (1001) used for?
Ans. Infotype that defines the Relationships between different objects.
You indicate that a employee or user holds a position by creating a relationship infotype
record between the position and the employee or user. Relationships between various
organizational units form the organizational structure in your enterprise. You identify the
tasks that the holder of a position must perform by creating relationship infotype records
between individual tasks and a position.
Creating and editing relationship infotype records is an essential part of setting up
information in the Organizational Management component. Without relationships, all
you have are isolated pieces of information.
You must decide the types of relationship record you require for your organizational
structure.
If you work in Infotype Maintenance, you must create relationship records manually.
However, if you work in Simple Maintenance and Structural Graphics, the system
creates certain relationships automatically.
14. Which status can Infotypes in the Organizational Management component have?
Ans. Once you have created the basic framework of your organizational plan in Simple
Maintenance, you can create and maintain all infotypes allowed for individual objects in
your organizational plan. These can be the basic object types of Organizational
Management organizational unit, position, work center and task. You can also
maintain object types, which do not belong to Organizational Management.

15. What is an evaluation path?

Ans. An evaluation path describes a chain of relationships that exists between individual
organizational objects in the organizational plan.
Evaluation paths are used in connection with the definition of roles and views.
The evaluation path O-S-P describes the relationship chain Organizational unit >
Position > Employee.
Evaluation paths are used to select other objects from one particular organizational
object. The system evaluates the organizational plan along the evaluation path.
Starting from an organizational unit, evaluation path O-S-P is used to establish all
persons who belong to this organizational unit or subordinate organizational units via
their positions.
16. What is Managers Desktop used for?
Ans. Manager's Desktop assists in the performance of administrative and organizational
management tasks. In addition to functions in Personnel Management, Manager's
Desktop also covers other application components like Controlling, where it supports
manual planning or the information system for cost centers.
17. Is it possible to set up new evaluation paths in Customizing?
Ans. You can use the evaluation paths available or define your own. Before creating
new evaluation paths, check the evaluation paths available as standard.
18. Which situations require new evaluation paths?
Ans. When using an evaluation path in a view, you should consider the following:
Define the evaluation path in such a manner that the relationship chain always starts
from a user (object type US in Organizational Management) and ends at an
organizational unit, a position or a user.
When defining the evaluation path, use the Skip indicator in order not to overload the
result of the evaluation.
19. How do you set up integration between Personnel Administration and Organizational
Management?
Ans. Integration between the Organizational Management and Personnel Administration
components enables you to,
Use data from one component in the other
Keep data in the two components consistent
Basically its relationship between person and position.
Objects in the integration plan version in the Organizational Management component
must also be contained in the following Personnel Administration tables:
Tables
Objects
T528B and T528T Positions
T513S and T513 Jobs
T527X
Organizational units

If integration is active and you create or delete these objects in Organizational

Management transactions, the system also creates or deletes the corresponding entries
automatically in the tables mentioned above. Entries that were created automatically are
indicated by a "P". You cannot change or delete them manually. Entries you create
manually cannot have the "P" indicator (the entry cannot be maintained manually).
You can transfer either the long or the short texts of Organizational Management objects
to the Personnel Administration tables. You do this in the Implementation Guide under
Organizational Management -> Integration -> Integration with Personnel Administration
-> Set Up Integration with Personnel Administration. If you change these control entries
at a later date, you must also change the relevant table texts. To do that you use the
report RHINTE10 (Prepare Integration (OM with PA)).
When you activate integration for the first time, you must ensure that the Personnel
Administration and the Organizational Management databases are consistent. To do
this, you use the reports:

RHINTE00 (Adopt organizational assignment (PA to PD))

RHINTE10 (Prepare Integration (PD to PA))

RHINTE20 (Check Program Integration PA - PD)

RHINTE30 (Create Batch Input Folder for Infotype 0001)

The following table entries are also required:

PLOGI PRELI in Customizing for Organizational Management (under Set Up

Integration with Personnel Administration). This entry defines the standard position
number.

INTE in table T77FC

INTE_PS, INTE_OSP, INTEBACK, INTECHEK and INTEGRAT in Customizing

under Global Settings Maintain Evaluation Paths.
These table entries are included in the SAP standard system. You must not change
them.
Since integration enables you to create relationships between persons and positions
(A/B 008), you may be required to include appropriate entries to control the validation of
these relationships. You make the necessary settings for this check in Customizing
under Global Settings Maintain Relationships.
Sincerely,
Devang Nandha
"Together, Transform Business Process by leveraging Information Technology to Grow
and Excel in Business".