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By Example: Uniquely Named Locations for Multiple Entities

Forward Inc has a wholly owned subsidiary named FI Back Office Systems. Forward Inc maintains two separate general ledgers for each business. When setting up the financial structure, Forward Inc created two entities-one for itself and another for the wholly owned subsidiary. Both companies have offices in the same geographical location. To create entities and associate the same location uniquely to each entity, Forward Inc created two location OBSs. They were named frd_locations for the Forward Inc entity and fi_locations for the Fi Back Office Systems entity. Forward also created city locations for each entity location using unique identifiers and names.

Once setup, Forward Inc associated their business units, departments, and groups to the locations. Similarly, FI Back Office Systems did the same.

You can associate a location with many departments. You can associate a department with many locations. Locations can be parent locations to other locations, such as a country is a parent to a state or a region. This hierarchy automatically creates the OBS structure for the corresponding department OBS and location OBS.

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