A Note for SAP System Administrators

Probably, you will not need to be familiar with the "PD Org" in SAP, but SAP System Administrators should know how it relates to Spending Groups and custom Fund Centers in the Roles Database.

Both Spending Groups (e.g., SG_BIOLOGY01) and custom Fund Centers (e.g., FC_BIOLOGY01) correspond to "organizations" in SAP's "PD Org". The Approver authorizations, with functions such as APPROVER MOD 2 LEV 1, are implemented using entries in the PD Org structure. Each Spending Group and its matching custom Fund Center have a corresponding object in the PD Org whose ID number is of the form 5nnnnnnn. The name field for this object in SAP contains the Spending Group name between square brackets, e.g., [BIOLOGY01].

Spending Groups, custom Fund Centers, and organizations in the PD Org are all maintained in parallel to keep them consistent with each other.

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