Multi Company Question

[james-2]

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[marcopaul]

From a practical perspective you have two distinct entities so you would treat it as any other customer or supplier process. You'd have the subsidiary marked as both and generate both documents for each.

There is the feature to copy an order as a new order where you can assign different parties so it should be possible to save time copying the PO or Sales Order as the other type. You may have to tweak it a bit to get the type to change, not sure if that's supported OOTB.

It wouldn't be too big of a project to write a bit of code in a service to trigger automatic PO creation from a sales order. I don't think this is OOTB right now because there are a ton of variables for both - financial terms (are you clearing payment immediately or end of the month internally?), shipping (is the stuff being transferred internally or just getting a new warehouse location?), vendor selection (if a product has multiple suppliers which supplier gets the auto PO?) etc.



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> On Mar 27, 2017, at 8:11 AM, <[hidden email]> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Anyone familiar with how this business process would work?
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Multi Company Question
> From: <[hidden email]>
> Date: Wed, March 22, 2017 7:36 am
> To: [hidden email]
>
>
> When in OFbiz if I am a main company and a subsidiary in which the
> subsidiary purchases from the main company. I understand most of the
> multi company configuration is done via rights. But if I am logged in
> as the subsidiary and create a purchase order to the main company does
> the system automatically add a sales order under the main company with
> the subsidiary as the customer? Or do we need to enter both the sales
> order and purchase order?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James

[Pierre Smits]

HI James,

Are the two organisations separate legal entities? If so, I would make that
distinction very clear in your OFBiz setup. Mixing data from the
organisations in one business solution (e.g. OFBiz) and underlying rdbms
could potentially lead to great risks.

That being said, you can - through code enhancements  - ensure that when
one internal organisations has dealings with another internal organisation
that date elements are shared, but for each organisation separate
transactions are created. Keep the possible disjunct dates (regarding
delivery/receipt and such) on the radar when developing such a solution.

Best regards,

Pierre Smits

ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>
OFBiz based solutions & services

OFBiz Extensions Marketplace
http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 3:11 PM, <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Anyone familiar with how this business process would work?
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Multi Company Question
> From: <[hidden email]>
> Date: Wed, March 22, 2017 7:36 am
> To: [hidden email]
>
>
> When in OFbiz if I am a main company and a subsidiary in which the
> subsidiary purchases from the main company. I understand most of the
> multi company configuration is done via rights. But if I am logged in
> as the subsidiary and create a purchase order to the main company does
> the system automatically add a sales order under the main company with
> the subsidiary as the customer? Or do we need to enter both the sales
> order and purchase order?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>

[Jacques Le Roux]

Not sure if you still need this, but yest you need to enter both OOTB. I suggest you create your own mechanism to extend OFBiz

HTH

Jacques


Le 22/03/2017 à 15:36, [hidden email] a écrit :
> When in OFbiz if I am a main company and a subsidiary in which the
> subsidiary purchases from the main company.  I understand most of the
> multi company configuration is done via rights.  But if I am logged in
> as the subsidiary and create a purchase order to the main company does
> the system automatically add a sales order under the main company with
> the subsidiary as the customer?  Or do we need