You can maintain all the master data, such as items, business partners, central purchase contracts, general ledger and related data in one company and share this data with the other companies. This master data company can be one of the operational companies, but you can also assign a separate company only to be used for the master data.

The advantages of having a separate master data company are:

• Clarity: Having a single company as master data company is clear for all users.
• Authorization: In general, only a few people in an enterprise can maintain the master data and, particularly for this maintenance, the authorization is important. If one dedicated master data company exists, you can use the company authorization to maintain this authorization very easily.

After selecting the Manufacturing check box and clicking Generate in the Generate Master Data (tccom0231m000) session, LN generates Manufacturing item data by site in the Items - Production by Site (tiipd0151m000) session.

The data is retrieved from:

• The Items (tcibd0501m000) session
• The Item - Production (tiipd0101m000) session
• The Item - Production Defaults (tiipd0102m000) session, if default data have been specified.

• The value in the Site field is retrieved from the warehouse or the work center listed in these sessions:

  • Bill of Material (tibom1110m000)
  • Generic Bill of Material (tipcf3110m000)
  • Production Orders (tisfc0501m000)
  • Production Schedules (tirpt4101m000)
  • Production Schedule Lines (tirpt4102m000)
  • Routing Operations (tirou1102m000). Sites are not retrieved from subcontracting work centers.

In a multilogistic/single-finance company structure, you can manage the manufacturing and distribution processes in a number of separate companies and perform the financial accounting in one company.

You must create one or more enterprise units in each logistic company and link all the enterprise units to the financial company.

For example, you can use a multilogistic/single-finance structure for an organization that consists of a number of separate production plants in one country that use their own BOM and production process but that form one legal entity. The reason for this is because BOMs, and the item cost prices based on them, are specific for each logistic company.

FINANCE: Multilogistic/Single Finance

OPERATIONS: Generating Manufacturing Item Data by Site

TECHNOLOGY: Table Sharing with a Multi-Company Setup - Using a Master Data Company

Use this session to to define which fields must be audited, and when they must be audited.

Note: 

• It is not required to define the fields that must be audited. Only if not all fields in a table must be audited, you must specify the fields that must be audited. You can only specify fields for a table for which you selected Specified in the Field Selection field of the Audit Tables by Profile (ttaud3120m000) session. If you selected All in that field, all fields in the table are audited, and no fields can be specified.

• For a detailed explanation of the relation between audit type and field specification, refer to the section How to determine the net result of the audit configuration in the Audit Configuration Management topic.

• The audit functionality uses the positive approach, which means that you can only specify which tables and fields must be audited, but not which tables and fields must not be audited. Therefore, through the appropriate menu, commands are available to load all (key) fields. You can then delete the fields you do not require.

Use this session to view the documents linked to a sales contract. You can view these documents only when a sales order line or a sales schedule line is linked to a sales contract line.

Note: 

• You can view this session only if the Contracts check box is selected in the Sales Parameters (tdsls0100s000) session.
• You can use the Linked Document option from the References menu to view the details of a specific linked document.

Field Information

Contract: The code of the sales contract.

Description: The description of the sales contract

Line: The sequence number of the sales contract line.

Sales Office: The code of the sales office.

Description: The description of the Sales Office

Linked Document: The document type that is linked to the sales contract line.

Note: This field can be set to Sales Order Line or Sales Schedule Line only.

Linked Document Company: The company in which the document is linked to the sales contract line.

Linked Document: The code of the document that is linked to the sales contract line.

Note: 

• The code of the sales order is defaulted from the Order Line field in Sales Order Lines (tdsls4101m000) session.
• The code of the sales schedule is defaulted from the Schedule field in the Sales Schedule Lines (tdsls3107m000) session.

Linked Document Reference: The reference number of the linked document.

Note: 

• The line number of the sales order line is defaulted from the Line field in the Sales Order Lines (tdsls4101m000) session.
• The line number of the sales schedule line is defaulted from the Line field in the Sales Schedule Lines (tdsls3107m000) session.

Link Sequence: The sequence number of the linked document.

Use this session to adjust the rounding difference transactions, calculated during the internal conversion, for inter-period postings.

Inter-period postings are the postings made to the ledger accounts defined in the Finance Company Parameters (tfgld0503m000) session for fiscal and reporting period changes.

If inter-period postings exist, very big rounding differences are calculated . If you run this session, those rounding differences are replaced with values that properly deal with an observed period change.

If inter-period postings exist, during the internal conversion rounding differences can be calculated for the wrong period. If you run this session, those rounding differences are deleted and the rounding differences are created for the correct period.

FINANCE: Clear Rounding Differences for Documents with Period Change (tccri7214m000)

OPERATIONS: Sales Contract Linked Documents (tdsls3506m000)

TECHNOLOGY: Audit Fields by Table (ttaud3125m000)