Parent Child Company Hierarchy

A Parent Company (3PL) allows you to store inventory based on the location by either dedicating the location for a specific (Client) company or storing inventory of different companies in a Distribution Centers (DCs) given the inventories are distinguishable, physically.

While, the Child (Client) company tracks and monitor their entity, this approach benefits the 3PL to view and manage the warehouse operation for their DCs, for example, inventory or labor management of different company’s inventory. This provides the 3PL system to control and decide on managing multiple company’s inventory to be stored in the available DC.

Depending on the number of clients and the DCs, this structure helps the 3PL to view and manage their warehouses accordingly through eligible Companies in facility at the Facility level.

You can view and manage the company’s inventory to be stored in the DC via Companies in facility action button in the Facilities UI.

To add company to the facility, select the facility > Companies in facility. If the facility has multiple company, you can choose the child company from the Company Code drop down.

In the following figure, the first drop-down denotes a facility (DC), while the second drop-down denotes the companies in the environments.