Is this a new Company?

ecarmody

Hello,

I would like to ask some general questions about "company" as it pertains to Navision database/application usage.

Our company has always just had one "company" defined in our Navision database so I am unfamiliar with how multiple companies work.

We have recently acquired a another company that will operate as its own, however will be incorporated into our network system and backend processing. Each company will keep their own "brand" identifier.
We use our Navision application to bring in EDI data, create orders, manage, etc. It will now bring in EDI data for each brand and create orders for each brand seperately.
Users will be employees of one company (brand) or the other. They do have permission to see the other brands orders/accounts, etc, but in general are only concerned with managing their own company orders.
I have been tasked with modifying our Navision application so that it will support both "brands".

In our database, the ITEMS table currently contains company1 materials. I was planning to add a identifier field to it, and soon it will contain materials for both companies with identifier value to identify company1 or company2. Sales order done similiar way.

With two companies ... how does the stuff like the item table work? Are the items for company1 and company2 both in the same table?

Accounts are shared.

Is this a classic situation for creating two companies?

How is shared data (accounts) handled in such a situation, or is there any shared data?

If the application runs a batch process that reads in EDI data to create orders ... would I need to have two apps running, each set to their own company, so they each read in their own EDI orders seperatly, or could one app create the data for both companies?

I am just starting on this topic. It could either make alot of work for me go away if I simple create another company ... if it will work the way we need it to.

Thanks for any input and suggesting. I need it on this topic.
Cheers,
Eric

p.willemse6

In the Netherlands, we basically put the difference between two companies who are one fiscal entity and companies who are seperate fiscal entities.

If seperate, we set up different companies. If shared, we use dimensions and division filters...

Savatage

do you want to treat it as one or two companies (entities as stated above)?

If everything is to be shared except you want to identify BrandA from BrandB's Invnetory you could look at setting them up as seperate locations. It might be a an option. see more about locations in the ONLINE HELP

from HELP (snippit)....

If your company has more than one warehouse (in different geographical locations, for example), you can assign location codes to the various warehouses. Then each location can be treated separately in connection with purchases, sales and production.

For each location, you can set up an unlimited number of bin codes to specify the location of individual items more precisely.

David_Singleton

Hi Eric,

all though there are many options, in your specific case, I would create two separate companies in Navision, one for each brand. Each company would have its own Items, Customers and Vendors.

Then I would create a third consolidation company for reporting consolidated accounts.

This is the way Navision is designed to work.

ecarmody

Thanks guys, for your input.

We ended up creating two companies and this has turned out to be exactly what we needed.

Thanks,
Eric

Savatage

Great to hear! Please add (Solved) to your first post's topic name