Setting up a company

Steps 1 through 9 are described in detail in Companies.

To set up a company:

  1. Log on as user bsp or baan.
  2. Create the first company.
  3. Create the company's database tables.
  4. Specify the configuration data.
  5. Create the other companies.
  6. Link the shared tables.
  7. Create the other companies' database tables.
  8. Specify the basic data, including the sites, enterprise units, warehouses, and departments.
  9. Specify the basic financial data.

  10. Repeat steps 8 and 9 for each company.

    Steps 11 through 13 are described in detail in Specifying Master Data:

  11. Specify the common master data.
  12. Specify the financial master data.
  13. Specify the package master data.

  14. Repeat steps 11 through 13 for each company.

    The procedure for step 15 is described in detail in User Management:

  15. Define the LN users in User Management of Tools.

Connecting Existing Companies describes an alternative procedure that you can use to connect existing companies in a multicompany structure.