The operational company to which the department belongs.
Departments (tcemm1124m000)Use this session to view and maintain the department's enterprise modeling data.
Operational Company The operational company to which the department belongs. Department Type The department type determines the types of orders and transactions that the department can control. Allowed values Department A company's organizational unit that carries out a specific set of tasks, for example, a sales office or a purchase office. Departments are assigned number groups for the orders they issue. The department's enterprise unit determines the financial company to which the financial transactions that the department generates are posted. Enterprise Unit The enterprise unit to which the department is assigned. The financial transactions that result from the orders handled by the department are posted to the financial company that is linked to the department's enterprise unit. Note Once you have set up the multicompany structure, you cannot change the existing links between key entities, enterprise units, and financial companies, for the following reasons:
Site A business location of an enterprise that can maintain its own logistical data. It includes a collection of warehouses, departments and assembly lines at the same location. Sites are used to model the supply chain in a multisite environment. These restrictions apply to sites:
You can link a site to an enterprise unit or an enterprise unit to a site. If an enterprise unit is linked to a site, the entities of the site belong to the enterprise unit. Conversely, if a site is linked to an enterprise unit, the entities of the enterprise unit belong to the site. Intercompany Trade Classification An attribute consisting of a code and a description that is used to create groups of entities or enterprise units. To create a group, a number of entities or enterprise units is linked to an intercompany trade classification. These groups can be used to define intercompany trade relationships. Example A large international organization includes these enterprise units: In Europe
In Asia
Trade classification Europe is linked to the European enterprise units and trade classification Asia is linked to the Asian enterprise units. You can set up trade relations, for example to define different trade agreements in Europe and Asia, such as:
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