Defining an organization's primary information
An organization's primary information provides general information about the organization and the organization's corporate and contact addresses.
About this task
To set up an organization's primary information:
Procedure
- In the Organization Details window, choose the Primary Info tab.
- Enter information in the applicable fields. Refer to Table 1 for field value descriptions.
- Choose the Save icon.
Table 1. Primary info tab Field Description DUNS Number Enter the unique nine-digit identification sequence, which provides unique identifiers of the business entity. Primary URL Enter the URL of the organization's Internet address, if applicable. Administered By Select the organization code of the organization that you want to administer this organization. Only the selected organization can make any changes to this organization in the Applications Manager. Locale Select the organization's geographic location. Resource Identifier Enter the Resource Identifier for the organization. Parent Organization Choose in the organization hierarchy who is the parent organization. Organization Suffix Enter the organization suffix for the organization. The organization suffix is used when creating a buyer organization for a business customer. Legal Entity Select this field if this organization is its own legal entity. A legal entity is an organization unit identified by local governments as operating units and are typically instituted for each country or region a business operates in. The organizational unit is typically self-contained and is involved in recording all relevant transactions and generating all supporting documents for financial statements.
For example, if you are a 3PL and have configured your 3PL as a Hub organization comprised of two Enterprises, one in the United States and one in India, both the US and Indian Enterprise organizations are their own legal entities.
Important: If you are configuring a Seller organization, be aware that the Seller organization of one legal entity cannot fulfill orders by sourcing directly from another legal entity. In this case you would need to create a procurement purchase order with the organization.
A procurement purchase order is a type chained order that is created when the final shipping point to the customer is a node within your organization and the shipping node does not have enough stock and needs to be replenished from an external organization's node.
Assigned Colony Id A read-only field that displays the Colony ID that was selected in the Create Organization screen. If no selection was made, DEFAULT is assumed. Note: This field displays only in a multi-schema deployment.Address The address of the organization's corporate headquarters. This information is mandatory. Choose the Details icon to enter an address.
Choose the Contact tab to view additional contact information.
You can also specify Latitude and Longitude coordinates for this address.
Latitude and Longitude need to be entered using decimal format with a range of -90 to +90 for latitude and -180 to +180 for longitude.
Contact Address The address of the organization's main contact. This may be different than the Corporate Address. This information is mandatory. Choose the Details icon to enter an address.
Choose the Contact tab to view additional contact information.
You can also specify Latitude and Longitude coordinates for this address. If specified for a node, these coordinates are used to plot the node on the Fulfillment Network Model.
Latitude and Longitude need to be entered using decimal format with a range of -90 to +90 for latitude and -180 to +180 for longitude.