1. Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management
  2. Intercompany Buyer Profile

Intercompany Buyer Profile

An intercompany buyer profile must be defined for profit center business units that act as a buyer in a buy and sell relationship. A buyer profile consists of two sections:

  • Setup for the buyer's payable invoice and purchase order

  • Customer locations for the seller's receivables invoice and sales order

Setup for Buyer's Payable Invoice and Purchase Order

Procurement and Payables Invoicing are business functions. A business unit acting as a shared service center can provide these services to a profit center business unit. You can define this relationship in the setup for the Buyer's Payable invoice and PO. The procurement business unit and the bill-to business units defined here are used to create intercompany payables invoices in the buying business unit. The bill-to business unit is also used to derive the attributes required for receipt accounting in Oracle Cost Management. Hence, the procurement and bill-to business unit have to be defined even when intercompany invoices aren't expected to be created for the buy and sell relationship.

Customer Locations for Seller's Receivables Invoice and Sales Order

The profit center business unit that acts as a buyer in a buy and sell relationship also must be defined as a bill-to location. This bill-to location is used to create intercompany receivables invoices in the selling business unit. The bill-to location associated with a buying business unit should belong to the customer account associated with the Buying business unit's Legal Entity in the Manage Intercompany Supplier Customer association task.

The customer bill-to locations belongs to a reference data set called customer address set. The buying profit center business units are represented by customer bill-to locations. The customer bill-to locations belong to a reference data set called customer address set. The selling profit center business unit can use the bill-to locations belonging to the customer address set to which it has subscribed to. The bill-to location representing the buying profit center business unit must be available in the customer address set subscribed by the selling business unit. The customer locations need not be associated if intercompany invoices aren't expected to be created for the buy and sell relationships.