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B1AIP30 - Blueprint Configuration
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Blueprint Configuration
August 2011
Blueprint Configuration
1. Introduction
2. Company Creation
3. Company Details
3.1. General
3.2. Basic Initialisation
3.3. Accounting and Tax Data
4. General Settings
5. Document Settings
5.1. General
5.2. Per Document Settings
5.3. Document Numbering
5.4. Predefined Text
6. Alerts
8. Financials
8.1. Currencies
8.2. Account Code Segments
8.3. Period Indicators
8.4. Transaction Codes
8.5. Projects
8.6. Tax Codes
8.7. Withholding tax
8.8. Recurring Postings
8.9. Transaction Templates
9. Banking
9.1. Bank Information
9.2. Bank Charge Allocation codes
9.3. Payment Methods
9.4. Payment Run Defaults
10. Inventory
10.1. Item Groups
10.2. Item Properties
10.3. Warehouses
10.4. Warehouse Locations
10.5. Stock Cycle
10.6. Package Types
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10.7. Duty Groups
10.8. Price Lists
10.9. Freight
10.10.Manufactures
10.11.Shipping Types
10.12.Recurring Transaction Templates for Inventory
12. Users
13. Sales
13.1. Territories, Commission Groups & Salespeople
13.2. Activity types
13.3. Recurring Transaction Templates for Sales
14. Purchasing
14.1. Recurring Transaction Templates for Purchasing
14.2. Landed Costs
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1.Introduction
The Business Blueprint Configuration document is a key implementation document for SAP
Business One. This document shows the list of global customization settings. You should add
any important configuration settings for the localization.
Important
Verify the contents of this document with the functional team leads of
the customer before you make the setup and configuration changes.
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2.Company Creation
Company Name
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3.Company Details
Note: In SAP Business One release 8.82 and later, you can export a report showing this
information.
3.1. General
Company Name
Address
Internet Address
Phone 1
Phone 2
Fax
Local Currency
System Currency
Default Account Currency
Display Credit Balance with Negative Sign Yes (default)
Note: Irreversible after documents posted. No
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Note: Irreversible after documents posted.
No
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Federal Tax ID
State Tax ID
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4.General Settings
Note: In SAP Business One release 8.82 and later, you can export a report showing this
information.
Customer Activity Restrictions Credit Limit:
Commitment Limit:
Consider Deliveries Balance
Select the type of documents to which the
restrictions apply:
A/R Invoice
Delivery
Sales Order
Pick List
BP
No
Documents selected:
Display
Rates _____
Quantities _____
Percentage _____
Units _____
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No
No
Transaction assignment:
Ignore without warning
Warning only
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5.Document Settings
Note: In SAP Business One release 8.82 and later, you can export a report showing this
information.
5.1. General
Calculate Gross Profit Yes
No
Base Price Origin:
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Sales Order
Delivery
...
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5.4. Predefined Text
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6.Alerts
Deviation from % of Gross Profit Active
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Domestic A/R
Foreign A/R
Checks Received
(Un-deposited Funds)
Cash on Hand
(Default Petty Cash Account)
Underpayment A/R
(Customer Payments are Short)
Overpayment A/R
(Customer Payments are Over)
Dunning Interest
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Domestic A/P
Foreign A/P
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Stock Account
Allocation Account
(Inventory Receipts A/P Accrual)
Variance Account
(Used only with Standard Cost Inventory Item Types)
Price Difference Account
(Records a price difference to this COGS account if the A/P
invoice cost differs from the PO Goods Receipt cost and there
is 0 or less than the quantity received to apply the cost
difference to in the Inventory Account)
Negative Inventory Account
(Used to track the Landed Costs additions to the original amount
posted COGS when there is 0 or less than the quantity in
inventory for which the landed costs are being applied to)
Inventory Offset Decrease
(An offsetting account to the Stock account used in Goods
Receipts and negative differences in Stock Postings (updates
after inventory). You can change this account manually while
creating its corresponding document.)
Inventory Offset Increase
(An offsetting account to the Stock account used in Goods
Receipts and positive differences in Stock Postings (updates
after inventory). You can change this account manually while
creating its corresponding document.)
Sales Returns
(The inventory account to use when returning stock to inventory
via a A/R Credit Memo or Goods Receipt)
Realized Exchange Difference
(Only used when using Foreign Currency in Inventory Purchasing
documents)
Goods Clearing Account
(Used only when a PO Goods Receipts has been posted to the
Inventory and A/P Accrual account and now the user closes the
PO Goods Receipt instead of drawing it into a A/P Voucher.
This account is used as the offset account to the debit to A/P
Accrual. For most businesses this type of transaction would
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not occur.)
Decrease GL Account
(Used as a balancing account when the stock value is decreased
due to the creation of a material revaluation document.)
Increase GL Account
(Used as a balancing account when the stock value is decreased
due to the creation of a material revaluation document.)
WIP Material Account
(Define an account in which the system maintains the value of
the items that are included in the production process. That is,
the period when production has begun but the final product is
not ready yet.)
WIP Material Variance Account
(An account in which the system maintains the variance amounts
of the items that participate in the product process. The
amount is posted when the production order's status is
'Closed'.)
Expenses Clearing Account
(Used as the A/P Accrual account for Additional Expenses in the
PO Goods Receipt, i.e. freight)
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Rounding Account
(An account for the system to use in journal entries automatically
created for rounding differences. This may occur when you
define rounding for certain currencies or for sales documents.)
Period-end Closing Account
(This account is used once a year to clear the P & L accounts into
Current Retained Earnings. It should be an Equity G/L Account
but not the same account as your standard Retained Earnings
Account)
Realized Exchange Diff. Gain
Realized Exchange Diff. Loss
Opening Balance Account
Credit Card Bank Fee
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8.Financials
8.1. Currencies
List the currencies that your business may use in your sales or purchases
US Dollar Yes / No $
Other-
Other -
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8.5. Projects
Define the standard for the project codes
Code Name Valid from Valid to
Tax Code: ____ Tax Name: _______________________ Tax Total Rate: ___
Tax Authority: ______ Name: ________ Tax on Tax? Rate: _____ Tax Payable G/L:
____________
Tax Authority: ______ Name: ________ Tax on Tax? Rate: _____ Tax Payable G/L:
____________
Tax Authority: ______ Name: ________ Tax on Tax? Rate: _____ Tax Payable G/L:
____________
Tax Authority: ______ Name: ________ Tax on Tax? Rate: _____ Tax Payable G/L:
____________
Withholding Tax 1 2 3
Tax code
Inactive
WT Tax Name
Category
Effective From
Rate
Base Type
Base Amount
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Official Code
Account
Recurring item 1 2 3
Code
Description
Ref 1
Ref 2
Ref 3
Transaction code
Remarks
Automatic VAT
Manage WT Tax
GL Account Code
Debit
Credit
VAT Code
Frequency
Valid Until
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Recurring item 1 2 3
Code
Description
Automatic VAT
Manage WT Tax
GL Account Code
Debit
Credit
VAT Code
Distribution rule
Project Code
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9.Banking
9.1. Bank Information
Bank Acct 1 Bank Acct 2 Bank Acct 3 Bank Acct 4 Bank Acct 5
Bank Code
(up to 19
characters)
Country Code
(if other than USA)
Bank Name
Account Number
(Last 4 digits)
Branch
Address
City, St Zip
Check Clearing
G/L Account
ABA Routing
Number
(optional -
Information only)
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9.4. Payment Run Defaults
Used with the Payment Wizard.
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10. Inventory
Default Planning Method MRP / None MRP / None MRP / None MRP / None
Default Procurement Method Buy / Make Buy / Make Buy / Make Buy / Make
Default Planning Method MRP / None MRP / None MRP / None MRP / None
Default Procurement Method Buy / Make Buy / Make Buy / Make Buy / Make
Property Name
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10.3. Warehouses
Note: SAP Business One allows Inventory Item’s G/L Determination to be set by Item Level, Item
Group or Warehouse. Each warehouse set up here has its own G/L Determination setup. These G/L
determinations are required if any items are to be set to G/L by Warehouse in the Item Master file.
Warehouse Code
(up to 8 characters)
Warehouse Name
Drop Ship?
Location
Street Address
City, ST Zip/Postcode
County
Country
Warehouse Code
Warehouse Name
Drop Ship?
Location
Street Address
City, ST Zip/Postcode
County
Country
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10.4. Warehouse Locations
Locations are assigned in the warehouse definition.
Location
Frequency
Period
Time
Package types
Box
Pallet
Case
code
Number
Duty
Purchase
Other
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Total
Price lists are assigned in the item master and customer master.
Base price Factor Rounding Authorisation
Pricelist name
list
10.9. Freight
1.
2.
Freight 1 2 3
Name
Revenue account
Expense account
WT Tax liable
Distribution method
Drawing method
Stock
Distribution rule
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10.10. Manufactures
Manufacture’s Name
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Terms Code 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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11.2. Credit Card Information for Incoming Payments
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11.6. BP Priorities
Code DT
Minimum balance
Include interest
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Calculate interest on
Interest calculation
remaining amount
Payment block
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12. Users
User Code
(up to 8 characters)
User Name
E-Mail Address
Mobile Phone
Fax
Initial Password
Branch
Department
Language Display
(in General Settings)
Time and Date
Formats
(in General Settings)
Cockpit
Requirements
Dashboard
Requirements
User Code
(up to 8 characters)
User Name
E-Mail Address
Mobile Phone
Fax
Initial Password
Branch
Department
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Language Display
(in General Settings)
Time and Date
Formats
(in General Settings)
Cockpit
Requirements
Dashboard
Requirements
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13. Sales
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Activity Type
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14. Purchasing
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Setting Description
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UDF
UDT
UDV
Queries
Reports
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