Introduction

This chapter discusses various items that must be set up relating to the business that owns the newspaper. This includes information about companies and publications owned by the business, general ledger accounts, and AAM (Alliance for Audited Media) reporting.

The business hierarchy is illustrated in the diagram below. The business is the highest organization, and only one business can be set up in your Circulation system. A business can own one or more companies, each of which can own one or more publications. Companies can also own TM products (commercial publications, such as shoppers, which are free). Each publication or TM product must be defined as a deliverable.

A deliverable is any item that can be delivered independently by your delivery force. Publications and TM products are deliverables, but inserts (which are delivered with a publication or TM product) are not. The deliverable record links the publication or TM product with the company, and also with a delivery map, which is the set of home delivery routes that deliver the publication. You do not need to set up a deliverable for a TM product (the deliverable is created by the system).

Note:

“Product” is a general name that refers to both publications and TM products. In this manual, “product” will be used to indicate both, while “TM product” will refer only to commercial products.

What you want to define as a “business” and what you want to define as a “company” depends upon your situation. The following table describes Circulation setup plans for business structures that contain one, two, three, and more than three organizations.

Entity	Setup Plan
One organization	If you have only one organization (such as the Tribune), you would set that up as the business, company and publication.
Two organizations	Suppose USA News owns the Tribune, and these are the only two organizations to be set up in Circulation. USA News would be set up as a business and company, with the Tribune set up as a publication.
Three organizations	If the Daily Sun owns USA News which owns the Tribune, you would set up Daily Sun as a business, USA News as a company and the Tribune as a publication.
Three or more organizations	If the Daily Sun (with the structure outlined above) also owns Shopper Services, which distributes three Shopper publications, you would set up Daily Sun as a business, USA News and Shopper Services as companies and the Tribune, Shopper 1, Shopper 2 and Shopper 3 as publications or TM products.