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   <Header>
      <Title>Introduction</Title>
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         <Level1>Introduction</Level1>
         <Level2>Enterprise Structure Models</Level2>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e1958386">
         <Level1>Enterprise Structure Models</Level1>
         <Level2>introduction</Level2>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <Paragraph>The enterprise-structure model visualizes the multisite
		structure of an organization.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>The multisite concept consists of enterprise units that contain
		entities that belong to the same financial and logistic company. Therefore, an
		enterprise unit’s entities must all belong to the same logistic company, but a
		logistic company can be linked to multiple enterprise units.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>This way, you can divide a logistic company over multiple
		countries, as the enterprise units can be located all over the globe with their
		own currency.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>In an Enterprise-Structure Model you can place enterprise units
		on a map and specify relationships between them. Furthermore, a complete supply
		chain can be modeled because external business partners can also be included in
		the Enterprise Structure Model.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>This can be done by adding enterprise units of category type <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tg/domains/brg.ctyp#supplier" role="option">Supplier</GUIRef> or <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tg/domains/brg.ctyp#customer" role="option">Customer</GUIRef> to the model. One Enterprise Model depicts the
		situation of one LN package combination.</Paragraph>
      <List>
         <ListIntro>The Enterprise Structure Model serves to present an image of
		  the relationships between companies and key entities and their related data.
		  Therefore, the main building blocks of an enterprise structure model
		  are:</ListIntro>
         <ListItem>
            <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tg/brg/tgbrg0412m000#unit.f" role="manual">Enterprise Units</GUIRef>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItem>
            <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tg/brg/tgbrg0129s000#tgbrg030.comp" role="manual">Financial Company</GUIRef>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItem>
            <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tt/ams/ttams1100s000#log.comp" role="manual">Logistical Company</GUIRef>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItem>
            <Emphasis>Key entities</Emphasis>
         </ListItem>
      </List>
      <Paragraph>Only the enterprise units are defined in the Dynamic Enterprise
		Modeler; all the other building blocks are defined in different EMM sessions in
		the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/com" role="module">Common</GUIRef> package and
		are vital for the functioning of an Enterprise Structure Model. An enterprise
		unit is nothing more than a collection of key entities interrelated by the
		financial and logistical companies they belong to. Key entities are projects,
		warehouses, or departments linked to an enterprise unit. For more information
		about companies and entities, see the <Emphasis>U7282 US Multisite Concepts
		document</Emphasis>.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>The financial company you link to an enterprise unit registers
		all accounting transactions that result from the activities carried out in the
		enterprise unit. These activities consist of the operational and logistical
		transactions caused by a logistical flow of goods and the performing of
		production, service, warehousing, and support activities. In contrast to a
		logistical company, a financial company cannot cross borders, because it is
		restricted to one currency area to do accounting and tax reporting of each site
		in each country’s local currency. The financial company determines the currency
		system and currencies.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>A logistical company is only used for logistical transactions,
		such as the production, sales and purchase, and transportation of
		goods.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>The logistic and financial companies are linked to each other
		through enterprise units.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>All kinds of relationships can be defined between enterprise
		units, such as goods flows, financial flows, and information flows. If a
		relationship is defined between two enterprise units, then that relationship
		applies to all entities belonging to those enterprise units.</Paragraph>
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         <FigCaption>Enterprise structure model procedure</FigCaption>
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   </GeneralSection>
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