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Dears, as per my knowledge the feature to have Sub-vendors related to a main vendor not possible in Business central.

I got this request from one client:

Vendor Name: Hyper Market Inc. | Vendor Type: Main

This vendor has 10 vendors under the same company [Hyper Market Inc. Branches ] but we deal with each sub-vendor separately but sometimes the Main vendor asks to provide a consolidated Statement, as well as the Payments some times he requests to pay to a specific sub-vendor.

Summary: Vendor 1 Main has 10 branches [different legal entity], sometimes we deal separately & sometimes consolidated

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MahGah 15,529 on at

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Hi

I assume you are aware that in each vendor card under Invoicing section you can define the parent company. This way you buy from company A but bill company B. Also, since all billing is under one company you can consolidate all payments. In addition, since Buy From is vendor branch you can see each branch PO.

But looks like in your case it a case by case. Do you know each case when you create a PO or this is after invoicing?

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Thanks MahGah

Yes, I am aware of Buy-from & Pay-To,

It seems this will not work with this scenario as the same Main vendor have a lot of Sub-Vendor, dealing with both Main & Sub-Vendor daily with a large amount of transactions.

Also, Pay to not always be clear at the Point of Purchase.

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I think the only way you can come close to achieving this in the standard application is with some clever use of dimensions.

Then you can have all transactions on one vendor but use dimensions to mark what legal company the transaction belongs to.

You could also keep them as separate vendors but assign a specific vendor posting group to this group of companies.

Then you could customize some reports that lets you report on all transactions for one specific vendor posting group. That is probably supported in some of the standard reports but not in all.

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Hi

I believe what Mr. Bruvik suggested is the better method.

I saw this app and this has some similarity with Inge suggestion (use of dimension).

appsource.microsoft.com/.../pubid.adacta|aid.adacta-adadm|pappid.2bf73771-ac88-49f8-a142-0189fb069995

dev.azure.com/.../Customer-Vendor-Item-Classifications

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Thank you

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mahmoud_algindy 281 on at

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Thanks NorthW

The main issue is my customer doesn't need to use dimension for that, I am trying to do some demo & sure he will accept.

Thanks so much again

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