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Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations
The Franchise module introduces the roles of Franchisers providing goods and Franchisees receiving goods.
The module defines and controls how Purchase Orders are made and Sales Orders returned. Legal entities can be set up as Franchiser or Franchisee, and in some setups the legal entity can act both as Franchiser and Franchisee.
| Franchisee | Franchiser |
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Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations
| Term | Description |
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| Franchiser | The legal entity that provides the goods |
| Franchisee | The legal entity that receives the goods |
| UOM | Unit of Measure |
| SO | Sales Order |
| PO | Purchase Order |
Requirements
A functionality is required for different legal entities to communicate by means of Purchase Orders and Sales Orders. Both legal entities must run the same version of LS Central and Business Central. Data Director is used to transfer documents between legal entities. Either Franchisee or Franchiser can initiate the communication. The Franchisee uses Purchase Order documents while the Franchiser uses Sales Order documents.
Note: A Purchase Order message is sent more than once, if shipments or invoicing for the Purchase Order are done more than once. The same applies for the Purchase Return Orders.
If a Franchisee orders ten pieces of a certain item and the Franchiser only has eight in stock, the Franchiser can do one of the following:
- If the Franchiser is expecting a new shipment of the item in question, the Franchiser will not change the quantity in the Sales Order. The Sales Order will have a quantity of two outstanding. This will be reflected in the Purchase Order in the Franchisee database.
- If the Franchiser will not be getting this item again soon and wants to close the Sales Order, the Franchiser can change the quantity from ten to eight in the Sales Order. When the message in the Inbound buffer in the Franchisee database is processed, the quantity in the Purchase Order is changed from ten to eight, so the Purchase Order will be closed after it has been processed.
Both legal entities use the same item number. If the item number is not found, the following sequence is used:
- Use barcode.
- Vendor number + vendor item number.
- Use common item number.
- If the item number cannot be found, the automatic processing of the document is stopped and a manual process is required.
Legal entities may have different currency codes. The currency exchange rate that is used for the orders is the rate on the date when the document is created.
Dimensions of document header and lines
- Dimension process in receiving entity (set up per entity)
- Skip all dimension inserted.
- Skip missing (@ receiving entity) dimension.
- Stop document (@ receiving entity) if there is any difference.
Units of Measure
- Document Lines come with the ordered quantity, shipped (or received) quantity, and invoiced quantity.
- They also have the Unit of Measure code and the Qty. per Unit of Measure.
- The system uses the UOM code, if it exists, and the Qty. per Unit of Measure is the same.
- If it is different, the document is stopped and manual intervention is required.