Multisite overview

A company structure can include multiple logistic and financial companies.

A logistic company can include multiple sites, enterprise units, warehouses, and departments. A financial company can include multiple enterprise units.

The warehouses and departments of a logistic company are linked to a site to reflect the logistics or production flow, and to an enterprise unit to reflect the financial flow.

To reflect the production and logistics flows of a company, warehouses and departments are linked to a site.

A logistic company can include multiple sites, and a site can include multiple warehouses and departments. Consequently, parameter settings and master data related to business processes are specified by company, by site, or by warehouse and department. These business processes include production, planning, warehousing, and order handling.

Parameter settings by subentity are available at the company level and at the site level.

To reflect the financial structure of a company, warehouses and departments are linked to an enterprise unit.

A financial company can include multiple enterprise units, and an enterprise unit can include multiple warehouses and departments.

Financial management is performed centrally for an entire organization or locally for one or more business units. These business units are modeled as enterprise units.

The warehouses and departments for which a business unit within a legal entity is financially responsible are linked to the enterprise unit that represents the business unit. The financial transactions resulting from logistic transactions by the warehouses or departments within a site are registered in the financial company of the enterprise unit. Within a financial company, segment reporting can be used to create a balancing trial balance by enterprise unit.

Also, standard costs are specified by company or by enterprise unit. If your business units use different standard costs, you must specify the standard cost by enterprise unit and link the warehouses and departments to the enterprise units.

See User Guide for Item Setup (Ucomitemsug_US).

Production orders, warehousing orders, sales orders, service orders, and purchase orders include references to the sites and departments for which these orders are created.

If Enterprise Planning is implemented, logistics and production planning is based on planning clusters. Sites are grouped by planning cluster within the company. A planning cluster can include multiple sites, and a site can be linked to one planning cluster.