SitesAn enterprise can include multiple business units in different locations and countries. At each business unit, various activities, such as production, sales, or warehousing can take place. Sites are used to group entities at the same business location. At a site, activities such as production, warehousing, sales, or a combination of these can be performed. To model the activities, you can specify site settings and link warehouses, assembly lines, and various types of departments to the site. For example, if an enterprise has two production plants each using the same materials but bought from different suppliers, you can model this by defining two sites. For each site, you specify a warehouse, a purchase office, and a production department, companywide item properties, and the materials supplier. Administrative sites At an administrative site, only administrative tasks are performed. You cannot link planning clusters, production departments, warehouses, work centers, assembly lines, or service locations to an administrative site. Subentity settings and external relations are unavailable. An administrative site can only have these types of departments: External sites An external site belongs to an external party such as a customer or a subcontractor. External sites can include warehouses in which inventory owned by your company or by the customer is stored, and for which your company performs planning. You can specify a sold-to business partner and a ship-to business partner for an external site. At an external site, only production for the external party can take place.
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