Definition

See business place . In Brazil, it refers to an organizational unit located between the company code and plant levels, as illustrated in the following graphic (called BP):

Use

In Brazil, the business place is used for reporting taxes on sales/purchases, nota fiscal reporting, and official document numbering.

Customizing

You need to make the following settings for your business places in Customizing for Cross-Application Components , under  General Application Functions Nota Fiscal CNPJ Business Places :

Here you define all the business places you require for your company. For each business place, you enter nota fiscal-related information, such as the tax numbers. If substituição tributária (ST) is to be applied, you can enter the state tax number for ST, per tax region. You also need to maintain address data for each business place since the nota fiscal print program uses the business place address as the address of the issuer ( not the address of the delivering plant).

By making these settings, the system establishes the business place as the entity registered with the authorities that is responsible for issuing notas fiscais and for tax and nota fiscal reporting.

You assign a business place to one or more plants.

You are also required to assign number range groups to the business place, since it is at the level of the business place that the outgoing forms are numbered. You do this in nota fiscal Customizing (see path above), under  Output Define Nota Fiscal Numbers and Form Sizes .

In addition, you need to maintain your business place assignment in your company code master data, as described under CNPJ Number .