Let’s say that you have a supplier that has an address of:

123 Anywhere Street
Anywhere, US 12345

And you need to remit a check payment to a different address of:

456 Somewhere Street
Anywhere, US 12345

The only work around that I know of are:
1. Input a new supplier with the 456 Somewhere Street
2. Modify the original supplier’s address from 123 Anywhere to 456 Somewhere, make the payment, then switch the address back.


I see where you can maintain Postal addresses and then utilize them when issuing a purchase order but I do not see where you can reference the postal address when registering the invoice or in maintain payment advice.

Hello Doug,

I don't know of any way that you can do that through vanilla Baan, but maybe with some modifications you could do the following???


Create a table that would house the supplier number and the proper fields for your 'check' address using similar formats as the supplier master does for addressing.

Then you could create a print device that prints your Baan check run information to a file.

Re-read the file against your 'check address' table for alternate addresses replacing values as needed. Then shoot those off to a second report that actually prints the checks.

Hi Doug,

As you've discovered, although the address in the supplier master is the default for purchase orders, postal addresses can be used in PUR to direct purchase orders to different supplier locations.

Ideally, there should be a similar provision for a separate "remit-to" address. In CMG, however, the only supplier address used for payments is the one in the Supplier Master. Even if Finance has "ownership" of the supplier master address, payments may be made to a lock box address that has no logical relation to the supplier’s location.

To use standard Baan functionality instead of customizing, look at using Factoring Companies. If a Factoring Company is entered in Maintain Suppliers (Form 3?), payments via CMG are directed to the factor.

Factoring Companies were intended for a different legal purpose (literally, a separate company to which payments are assigned), but there is no reason that your supplier (Great Supplier Inc., 123 Anywhere Street, Anywhere, US 12345) can't be linked to a factoring company whose name and address is Great Supplier Inc., 456 Somewhere Street, Anywhere, US 12345.

Review the sessions Maintain Factoring Companies (tcmcs0125m000), Maintain Banks by Factoring Company (tcmcs0126m000) and Maintain Suppliers (tccom2102m000).

(This answer pertains to Baan IV, which you're using. I think there are some other wrinkles that can be used with Baan V.)

Scott Johnson

Scott,

Neat idea. I never knew. Thanks!

Thank you both for your input. I will take a look at the factoring company functionality.

Doug