Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 3 · Enterprise Prerequisites and Locations
What this needs from Financials
Lesson 21 of 188 · 3 min
There is no standalone mode. This product cannot function without a primary ledger, a legal entity, and at least one business unit. Inventory value posts to a ledger; costing produces journals. There is no version of this that runs without somewhere to post to. What each one provides. The ledger — the chart of accounts, the calendar and the currency that costing will post into. The legal entity — the owner of the inventory, for statutory purposes. The business unit — the operating grouping the inventory organization belongs to. Two starting situations, and you are in one of them today. Financials is already implemented: your prerequisite is done, so verify it and move on. Financials is not implemented: somebody must create a minimal structure, and that somebody is often you. It is a real work package with a real owner and it belongs on the plan — a line, with…
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In this module: Module 3 · Enterprise Prerequisites and Locations
- 1What this needs from Financials
- 2The minimal enterprise structure
- 3The profit center business unit
- 4Geographies
- 5Locations
- 6What breaks
- 7Lab: the layer everything sits on