Sharing Products between Companies and Divisions
Apr/18/2010
Sharing Products between Divisions:
Tradepoint supports multiple
Divisions within a Company or separate Companies each with a default or multiple
Divisions.
A Company is defined as a legal
entity defined for the purposes of commerce.
A Division is defined as an
organizational entity that must have its own general ledger
structure.
In Tradepoint, products are linked
at the Division level not the company level. This means the process is
different for sharing products between companies and sharing products
between Divisions (for example a wholesale and retail
division).
Products can be shared between
Divisions and even on multiple websites easily by adding the Accounting rules to
each Product and setting up the website preferences under web sites(found on the
tool Tab).
For sharing the same products on multiple
web sites the web site has to be setup(found under the web sites section
on Tools tab) with the Warehouse specified.
Sharing Products between different Companies:
To share products between separate
companies, products will have to be imported into to a company
and then accounting rules assigned to each product by Division within each
Company.
To enter in products to each company you will need to
be logged into that company, use the import tool to import products and
then assign the Accounting rules to Products as a whole within the Division of
that company or assign them individually to each Product within
Products.
To be able to import products into a Company a default warehouse must be
setup for that company and respective default Division. A separate Warehouse may
need to be setup by logging in to Tradepoint under each Company creating a
Warehouse under each separate company. A warehouse can have the same
contact/location information as used within other companies.