Business Places 

Use

In the Philippines, companies are required to register each of their branches with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). Each branch is also assigned its own taxpayer identification number (TIN), and is responsible for issuing its own documents with its own serial number range.

In the system, a company’s head office and each of its branches are represented by a business place. For more information about the business place concept, see Local Taxation.  

If a company does not have any branches, then there is no need to establish business places in the system, since document numbering is carried out on company code level.

Integration

The business place is used in the Philippines to assign official document numbers to outgoing documents. Each business place maintains its own document number ranges, which must be unique within the company. Each document must contain an official document number, the business place’s TIN and address, and the head office’s address.

The system automatically assigns original documents (billing documents or sales documents) to a business place, so that when the system creates the appropriate accounting document, all line items are assigned to the correct business place too.

Activities

Customizing

In Customizing for General Settings, choose Set Countries® Define Countries, and make sure that the vehicle country key for Philippines is set to RP.

You set up the business place in Customizing for Cross-Application Components, by completing all the activities under General Application Functions ® Cross-Application Document Numbering ® Philippines ® Business Place. For each business place you define, you need to enter its address and TIN.

Day-to-Day Activities

When you enter customer invoices in Financial Accounting (FI) and Sales and Distribution (SD), you specify the business place. Follow the standard procedures for posting invoices in FI and SD.

When you print official receipts, you can select by business place.

Once you activate the business place, it can be entered in several system transactions. Although it is not required for all transactions in the Philippines – such as for entry of incoming invoices in Materials Management (MM) – we recommend that you do enter the business place. You can configure the system so that it derives the business place automatically in most cases.