Definition

See business place.

Use

The business place is used in countries that by law require returns for taxes on sales/purchases to be submitted at a level below the company code. For this reason, companies have to register each business place with the tax authorities as the unit responsible for tax reporting.

In some countries, the business place is also used to assign official document numbers to outgoing documents and so it is the level at which these documents are issued. In most cases, these documents are concerned with value-added tax (VAT) or similar tax types.

You can also use the business place for the payment program , whereby you can make separate payments per business place, and separate house banks can be filtered per business place. This function is currently available for Brazil , South Korea , and Thailand .

SAP supports business place functions for the following countries ; how it is used varies according to the country in which it is employed:

You can activate the business place for other countries, but note that SAP does not support its usage.

Structure

You define the business place in Customizing. For each business place, you enter the tax numbersthat the tax authorities have issued to the organizational unit responsible for reporting taxes on sales/purchases. Additionally, you maintain all address data.By making these settings, you establish the business place in the system as the entity registered with the authorities that is responsible for issuing tax invoices and for tax reporting.

The exact information you enter when defining the business place depends on the country with which you are working. For more information, refer to the country-specific documentation in the SAP Library.

Integration

For all countries, when you define the business place in Customizing, you assign it to a company code. In an extra step and depending on the country, you usually assign one or more other organizational units, for example the plant or sales office, to the business place. This means that if the business place is assigned to a plant, the system derives the business place from that plant when you post a document through Materials Management (MM) or Sales and Distribution (SD). Similarly, if the business place is assigned to a sales office, the system derives the business place from that sales office when you post a document through SD.