What is Business areas in SAP

The following Free SAP Training guides on how to define business areas in SAP step by step. In our previous tutorials, we have learned how to assign company code to company in SAP.

What are Business Areas: – Business Areas represent separate areas of the organization of financial accounting that is responsible for internal and external reporting. Financial reports can be created for every business area as per the organizational requirements.

Let’s define business areas in the SAP system

Step 1: – Enter transaction code “OX03” in the SAP command field and enter.

SAP transaction code Ox03

Step 2: – On the change view business area overview screen, click on new entries to maintain new business areas as per company requirements.change business area overview screen

Step 3: – On the new entries screen, Update the following details.

  1. Business Area: – Update the New business area key that you want to maintain, It allows maximum of four digits.
  2. Description: – Update descriptive text of the business area.

define business areas in SAP system

After defining the business areas as per organization requirements, click on the save button to save the configured data.

Successfully new business areas are created in SAP systems.