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Siebel Consumer Goods Guide > Managing Accounts > Setting Up Account HierarchiesFor overview information about account hierarchies, see About Account Hierarchies. To set up account hierarchies, you create parent-child relationships between accounts. A list of guidelines for creating account hierarchies follows:
If your company uses the Sales Volume Planning module, you must create one contiguous account hierarchy with all the accounts for the sales volume planning process. For example, you might create a five-level hierarchy with your corporate headquarters at the top level and your company's divisions at the second level. You can place the accounts representing all of the headquarters offices for your customers in the third level, distribution centers in the fourth level, and retail outlets in the fifth level. For more information about sales volume planning, see Sales Volume Planning. This task is a step in Process of Managing Accounts. To create an account-subaccount (parent-child) relationship
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