MM Configuration: Define Plant Step-by-Step SAP Material Management (MM) Configuration: Define Plant This post will explain a step by step SAP MM configuration of how to define a plant in an SAP client. A plant is the place of production, or branch of a company, or simply a collection of several locations of material stocks in close physical proximity. A plant is represented by a client-unique 4-digit alpha-numeric. Plant is used in Material Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), Sales and Distribution (SD), and Plant Maintenance (PM) module. A plant is assigned to one company code. One company code can have more than one plant. One Business Area is assigned to plant. Several plants can have same business area. We can define Plant in a SAP R/3 client with T-code: SPRO. SAP Screenshots of How to define a plant are: Go to the menu: IMG – Enterprise Structure – Definition – Logistic-General – Define, Copy, Check, Delete Plant: The above image is © SAP AG 2010. All rights reserved Click Execute button, the next screen is: The above image is © SAP AG 2010. All rights reserved Select “Define Plant” if we want to create a plant from the scratch, or select “copy, delete, check plant” if we want to copy a plant from an existing plant. In this example we will create a plant from the scratch. The next screen is: The above image is © SAP AG 2010. All rights reserved Click “New Entries” button. The next screen is: The above image is © SAP AG 2010. All rights reserved Fill the Plant code that we want to create (client-unique 4-digit alpha-numeric) in the plant field. Then click “address” icon. The next screen is: The above image is © SAP AG 2010. All rights reserved Fill the required field as above image, and click “OK” button or press “Enter”. The next screen is: The above image is © SAP AG 2010. All rights reserved Click the “save” button. And the next screen is: The above image is © SAP AG 2010. All rights reserved The GC01 plant has been created. Then we need to assign this plant to a company code and business area. SAP Study Materials Series e-Book To get more details on SAP Enterprise Structure, you can buy my e-book (50 pages .pdf file) at SAP Study Materials Store. The e-book explains in details about the SAP Enterprise Structure (MM and related modules such as FI, Logistics, and SD) Concept and Configuration Guide. Just like other articles on my SAP Study Materials blog, I wrote the e-book in a simple-to-understand way, so you can learn it easily. You don’t need to have extensive SAP knowledge and experience to be able to configure the SAP Enterprise Structure, as the e-book start explaining each step with the basic concept behind it. After understanding the concept, the e-book will show the step-by-step configuration with the screen shots.