Order Entry in a multi-entity shared company

Multi-entity considerations

The system automatically distributes subtotal amounts per location so that entities balance by location. One obvious effect is that the system removes department and location fields from the subtotals area in a top-level company but leaves them in the entities. The system maintains these totals internally and displays them as appropriate. For instance, you could have two items where the first is for Entity1 and the second is for Entity2. When you view the transaction from the top level, you see both items and the combined subtotals for both entities. However, when you view the transaction from either of the entities, you see only the appropriate item for that entity along with the portion of the subtotal attributed to that entity.

When you set items, such as summary period and journal for documents, at the top level, you can only change them at the top level. If you set items at the entity level, you can change them at the entity level.