Sites

All operating actions are performed within a site, which is the core element for organizing and managing data for companies and sites.

A site must exist within a company.

Certain management data belongs to a given site, and others are common to a group of sites managed in the same folder:

  • The ledger includes information common to all sites such as products, business partners, the chart of accounts, common tables, units, and so on.
  • The files that contain data linked to a site such as the transactions, but also certain data linked to the product.

Even if each management act is clearly referenced to a single site, a certain number of processes require the cooperation between several sites.
Examples of this are:

  • Multi-site planning (MPS, MRP or DRP)
  • Exchanging goods between 2 storage sites
  • Consumption of a product at another storage site
  • Including the same order for purchase requests generated by different sites
  • Splitting a delivery across several sites depending on the requesters
  • Generating account postings over several sites from a single supplier invoice
  • Allocating a customer order to several sites, warehouses, and so on

A user is not connected to a site or company.

The user's authorizations define which data they can access for a site or sites.

Default authorization values allow users the appropriate sites for their profiles. The default sites are defined by module on the Sites tab in the Function profile record.

Prerequisite

Note - informationRefer to the documentation on Implementation.

Screen management

General tab

This tab presents general site information and the code of the legal company to which the company it linked. This company, which must have previously been created, corresponds to the attached company in the accounting sense of the term.

Acct tab

This tab presents accounting-related information, such as indicating if the site is a financial site. If not, it needs to be linked to one. You also need to enter an accounting code to determine the general ledger postings and the analytical nature.

Addresses tab

Use this tab to define a list of addresses associated with the current site.
Each address is identified by a code and the set of related data.
Select the Address by default check box on the default address required for the site (default address mandatory).

Bank details tab

On this tab, you can define a list of bank statement details associated with this site. You can enter as many lines as needed in the table.

Contacts tab

Use this tab to list people linked to this site in the contacts table. The full contact information linked to each name is displayed next to the grid.

You can add a new contact by selecting an existing one or by creating a new contact.

Contact management, based on Contact relationships, ensures that records are unique. A contact with a particular role can be recorded as a contact for many companies, sites, or BPs. Based on the one contact record, you can create relationships across records with a contact tab.

A contact considered as a relationship can only be recorded as an individual. Identification information such as the last name, first name, date of birth, and cell phone number are common to the contact relationship record and to the details entered at the general contact level.

Other information such as the address, email address, phone numbers are managed separately between the contact and each of their particular contacts. At the relationship level, the information is considered personal. At the general contact level, the information is considered professional.

See the documentation for the Contact relationships function.

Details tab

Use this tab to define the management elements that can be assigned to a site.

DAS2 tab

Warehouse tab

This tab is only displayed if the WRH - Warehouse management activity code is active.

It indicates if warehouse management is authorized for this site. When it is authorized, it is possible to specify a default warehouse for each movement of the stock receipt or stock issue type.

Input movements

  • Receipt: supplier, subcontract
  • WO receipt
  • Internal movement such as miscellaneous receipts, assembly for the parent product, disassembly for the component
  • Return: delivery, loan, subcontract
  • Stock reintegration

Issue movements

  • Shipment: delivery
  • Material consumption
  • Internal movement such as miscellaneous issues, assembly for the component, disassembly for the parent product
  • Subcontract shipment
  • Subcontract consumption
Note - settingsWarehouse management is only available when the site is identified as a stock site on the Details tab.

Error messages

In addition to the generic error messages, the following messages can appear during the entry :

xxx: non-legal

The company you want to assign a site to is not a legal company (the concept of non-legal company is indeed applied, essentially for reporting purposes).

Note - informationPlease refer to the documentation on site grouping for further information.

XXX: this site is not a financial site

The financial site you want to attach a site to is not of the accounting type (it cannot receive the corresponding entries).

An address must be defined as default

On the Addresses tab, define a default address. If you select the Default address check box several times, only the first address is kept as default (only one default address is authorized).

This code exists already as a company

You tried to create a site with the code of an existing company.

At least one address must exist

This message is displayed if you try to create a site without the related address. You are then redirected to the Addresses tab.

Tables used

Note - informationRefer to the documentation on Implementation