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   <Header>
      <Title>Overview of enterprise modeling</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e1140957">
         <Level1>EMM</Level1>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <List>
         <ListIntro>You use the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/emm" role="module">Enterprise Modeling Management</GUIRef> module to
		  define, view, and maintain the enterprise structuring data of the following
		  entities that you must previously define in other sessions:</ListIntro>
         <ListItem>Companies, which you
		  define in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/com/tccom0500m000" role="session">Implemented Software Components (tccom0500m000)</GUIRef> session.</ListItem>
         <ListItem> 
            <Link href="/baanerp/tc/glossary/glossary#000074" role="glossary">Internal business partners</Link>,
		  which you define in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/com/tccom4100s000" role="session">Business Partner (tccom4100s000)</GUIRef> session.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Departments, which you
		  define in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/mcs/tcmcs0565m000" role="session">Departments (tcmcs0565m000)</GUIRef> session.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Warehouses, which you
		  define in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/mcs/tcmcs0503m000" role="session">Warehouses (tcmcs0503m000)</GUIRef> session.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Projects, which you
		  define in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/mcs/tcmcs0552m000" role="session">General Projects (tcmcs0552m000)</GUIRef> session and that you further define in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tp" role="package">Project</GUIRef>.</ListItem>
      </List>
      <List>
         <ListIntro>When you link the various entities to enterprise units and
		  through the enterprise units, to financial companies, the following rules
		  apply:</ListIntro>
         <ListItem>Each enterprise unit is linked to one logistic company and to
		  one financial company.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Each department, warehouse or project is linked to one
		  enterprise unit.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>The logistic company of the enterprise unit is the <Link href="/baanerp/tc/glossary/glossary#000412" role="glossary">operational company</Link> of the logistic departments,
		  warehouses and projects linked to the enterprise unit.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Each enterprise unit can contain one or more <Link href="/baanerp/tc/glossary/glossary#000334" role="glossary">accounting departments</Link>. The financial company of the
		  enterprise unit is the operational company of all the accounting departments.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Each financial company can have more than one accounting
		  department. You can define the company's default accounting department in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/gld/tfgld0503m000" role="session">Company Parameters (tfgld0503m000)</GUIRef> session, or you can leave the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/gld/tfgld0503m000#tfgld004.acdp" role="manual">Accounting Department</GUIRef> field empty. <List>
               <ListIntro>LN uses the default accounting department:</ListIntro>
               <ListItem>To retrieve the control account from the financial business
				partner group details.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>To update the invoice balance.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>To update the billing request balance.</ListItem>
            </List>
         </ListItem>
      </List>
      <List>
         <ListIntro>In addition, you can use the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/emm" role="module">Enterprise Modeling Management</GUIRef> module to define:</ListIntro>
         <ListItem>Specific goods-transfer
		  relationships between the entities of the enterprise units. The relationships
		  that you define in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tg" role="package">Enterprise Modeler</GUIRef> are the default relationships. For example, you can use the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tc/emm" role="module">Enterprise Modeling Management</GUIRef> module to define specific goods-transfer relationships
		  between sales offices and warehouses, and between work centers. The
		  goods-transfer relationship parameters determine the pricing and the type of
		  financial settlement that LN applies when goods are transferred between
		  the entities.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Warehouse clusters that
		  you use for Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) in <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef>.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>The time zones that the
		  company uses.</ListItem>
      </List>
   </GeneralSection>
   <RelatedTopics>
      <SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/tc/onlinemanual/000041" role="manual">To use clusters</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/tc/onlinemanual/000034" role="manual">Companies - overview</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/tc/onlinemanual/000009" role="manual">To define departments</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/tc/onlinemanual/000082" role="manual">Business partners</Link>
      </RelTopic>
   </RelatedTopics>
</ManualTopic>