Sites (tcemm0150m000)

A site is linked to one planning cluster. A planning cluster can perform planning for multiple sites, but a site cannot be linked to more than one planning cluster.

If this check box is selected, the site belongs to an external party such as a customer or a subcontractor.

An external site can include warehouses in which inventory owned by your company is stored, and for which your company performs planning.

If this check box is selected, you can specify a business partner, sold-to business partner, or a ship-to business partner in the equivalent fields.

If the Resources by Site concept is activated, this check box is selected if the Subcontractor Site check box or the Customer Site check box is selected.

If this check box is selected, the site is a subcontractor site.

Subcontractor sites are sites at which subcontractors perform activities that are subcontracted to them.

This check box is available if the External Site check box is selected.

The subcontractor who performs the subcontracted activities.

This check box is available if the External Site check box is selected.

If the Subcontractor Site check box is selected for the current site, you can optionally specify the ship-from business partner who transports the subcontracted goods to your site.

If this check box is selected, the site represents a location of a customer and can be used in VMI scenarios in which your organization owns the inventory at the customer location, is responsible for inventory management, or is responsible for supply planning..

If this check box is selected, the site is not used in Enterprise Planning . The setting of this check box is taken from the planning cluster. This check box is selected if the related planning cluster is excluded from Enterprise Planning .

If this check box is selected, the site is an administrative site.

At an administrative site, only administrative tasks are performed. Production, logistics, or warehousing do not take place at an administrative site. An administrative site can only have these types of offices:

Also, for administrative sites planning clusters are unavailable.

The site's address.

Note: The entities linked to the site must be located in the site's country.

If this check box is selected, a text is present.

The site's logistic company.

The entities of the site must share this logistic company as their operational company.

Default value

The company in which the current session is started.

The site's calendar code.

availability type

The enterprise unit of the entities linked to the site.

You must only specify the enterprise unit that is shared by all the entities of the site.

The site's default warehouse can be defaulted on order headers generated from the site's entities.

If the site is external, you can optionally specify the business partner who owns the site.

If the site is external, you can optionally specify the sold-to business partner who owns the site.

If an external planning cluster is linked to the site, the sold-to business partner is retrieved from the planning cluster and cannot be changed.

business partner status

If there are outstanding sales orders or open invoices for the business partner, you cannot change the status from Active to Prospect.

Allowed values

Active

If the business partner (role) status is Active, you can use the business partner for business transactions. You must define the period for which the business partner is Active. If the period is expired, the actual status of the business partner becomes Inactive, and you cannot use the business partner anymore.

Inactive

If the business partner (role) status is Inactive, you cannot use the business partner for business transactions.

You cannot enter an effective date and an expiry date for the Inactive status.

Prospect

You can use the Prospect business partner (role) if you enter general business partner data but you do not enter details for a specific role. If no details for a specific role are defined, you cannot enter, for example, sales orders or purchase contracts because the sold-to role or buy-from role is not specified.

You must define the period for which the business partner is Prospect. If the period is expired, the actual status of the business partner becomes Inactive, and you cannot use the business partner anymore.

Not Specified

If the Customer Site check box is selected for the current site, you can optionally specify the ship-to business partner who owns the site.

If an external planning cluster is linked to the site, the ship-to business partner is retrieved from the planning cluster and cannot be changed.