Setting Up Base Address Data
To ensure consistency of data entry, you must define a number of codes required by all addresses, including:
• Languages
• Countries
• States/provinces
• Counties
Other optional setup includes:
• Defining implementation-specific address types in addition to the ones that are supplied with the system
• Defining corporate codes for grouping business relations for reporting
• Setting up autonumbering sequences for business relations, customers and ship‑tos, end users, suppliers, and employees
In addition, for customers and suppliers, codes are needed for managing invoice processing. These include invoice status codes and credit terms.
You can then define business relations and set up customers and suppliers and other similar address types.
Note: Before completing the setup of customers and suppliers, you must have already defined accounts and account profiles. Profiles are described in more detail in
Setting Up Profiles.