SAP MM Organization structure for the Utilities Industry

Hi,
Please let me know how does the typlical org structutre should look like for the Utilities company.
Thanks in advance

Hi,
Material management organizational structure includes
1. Purchasing Organization,
2. Plant,
3. Storage Location &
4. Purchasing Group.
Note:
It depends how you project or design the purchasing group in the organization & purchase group can be created and represent as department .In general, company have many more departments & need to control & approval of all purchasing documents at department level & at the end to know cost incurred in each department with various activities( more then one& each GL represent one activity) .So in turn Purchasing group(department) is linked to cost center and then different G/L accounts which represent various activities linked with the cost center.
Regards,
Biju K

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