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What are the best practices for this 'semi-Intercompany' scenario in Business Central?

Hello,

I have a case concerning semi intercompany way of working.

Company A is the logistical company. Here all the products are produced, prognosis of customers are being used for planning. From Company A orders are confirmed and shipped. Company A has its own Customers and invoices also its own Customers.

Company B is a Subsidiary of Company A. The Customers of Company B orders are confirmed, produced and shipped by Company A. Company B never has goods on stock.

So ideally you would want give in the orders from customers of Company B right in Company A. Then availability can be checked, prognosis can be used for MRP, packaging infromation is at the right place for shippping. For that the pricelists of the Customers of Comapny B should be made available in Company A. Company A invoices Company B for A different price..costprice+ standard margin. The shipment note is made out of Company A. The invoice is produced by Company B.

So Company B does nothing logistic..

If you use standard IC in Business Central, changes in orders like prices, delivery dates and quantities aren't synced. Also a lot of extra steps have to be taken. Company A now sees these orders, just like if it were their own orders, it is just another legal entity. So for conformation of sales orders they have to switch from company. When posting shipments and quantities are different than the ordered quantity you have to do the sipment twice (in each company), I believe. And so on... does anyone knows a good and efficiënt way to handle this situation?

Thank you in advance!

Hello,

When setting up Intercompany, you can set the documents to Auto-Send and Auto-Accept and post. This might help when Company A ships and Invoices Company B and it updates the PO on Company B information and posts. You are correct that changes to dates and information are not sync'd. I would expect the price between Company A and B are preset and the Price to the Customer of Company B is between Company B and the Customer. I know there are Intercompany APP's that might improve this to update and automate more. You might want to look at:

appsource.microsoft.com/.../pubid.efoqus-5058796|aid.intercompany|pappid.2bf11424-61d7-4000-879c-fe2553b8231c

If you want to chat more you can email me: steven.chinsky@wipfli.com

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Steve

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