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Once you model customers and suppliers as organizations, all relevant supply/demand information for an item can be exchanged between your enterprise and supplier or customer organizations. You can also net supply and demand of external organizations, covert material needs of consuming organizations into demand at the replenishing organization, and maintain capacity information (for the supplier organization).

Prerequisites

   Define a customer name. (See: Entering Customers.)

   Use your customer name to define an organization. (See: Creating an Organization.)

   Associate an inventory organization with a customer. (See: Creating an Organization.)

   Define a supplier name. (See: Entering Suppliers.)

   Use your supplier name to define an organization. (See: Creating an Organization.)

   Associate an inventory organization with a supplier. (See: Creating an Organization.)

Note: You cannot implement planned orders in customer or supplier organizations.

See Also

Defining Sourcing Rules

Assigning Sourcing Rules and Bills of Distribution