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Multi Company vs. Multiple Sales Offices/Warehouses
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Additional Information Multi-Company Discussion Paper |
The following table provides points on setting up a multiple Company environment versus a multiple Sales Office or Warehouse environment.
| Program | Multi-Company | Multi-Sales Office/Whse |
| AR | Totally Separate and Independent. All reports, statements, etc. entered individually. | Controlled under one Company. Centralized – One aging, one statement, etc. Posting cross branch. |
| AP | Same as above. | Same as above. |
| GL | Retained earnings for each Company. | One Retained earnings consolidating the SO/Whse. |
| CC | Program access can be restricted to certain Companies. | Program access cannot be restricted to SO/Whse. Can use different logins to access different programs. |
| IC | Transfers between Warehouses can not be done in IC50. | Warehouse transfers available. Displays will show all Warehouses. |
| IM | Separate Master files must be maintained for each Company. Cost and pricing is specific to companies. Totally separate databases. | Consolidated master files. Weighted average costing by main warehouse. Purchase costing is by main Warehouse. Warehouse transfers can add freight to costing. |
| IN | Individual Invoice runs by Company. | Could have but do not require - Individual invoice runs by Sales Office. |
| OE | Entered by Company. Displays show applicable Company only. | Entered by Sales Office. Displays show all Warehouses for product availability. |
| PO | Purchasing handled totally separate. | Purchasing controlled by main warehouse. Better for Auto-Purchasing functions if doing the purchasing for all Warehouses from the main Warehouse. Can use Warehouse replenishment systems. |
| SA | Separate reports. Separate displays. | Consolidated reports and displays. |
| SU | Separate customer master files. Totally separate databases. | One customer master file. |
