Inter-company sales and purchases setups:-

In 2009 we have a Inter company settings were done at General ledger i.e at End of the legal entity.


But

In Ax-2012 we can setup the Inter company setups at customer and Vendor masters. Today we will see few setups which are interesting to know...

This inter company form is same from both places customer and vendor masters.

Path :- Accounts Payable > Common >Vendors >All vendors > General > Setup > Intercompany

Path :- Accounts Receivable > Common >Customers >All customers > General > Setup > Intercompany



Above screen shot shows that the setups of Purchase action policies which we can make between companies.

Intercompany Planning Terms and Concepts

Upstream Used as a relative reference in a firm or supply chain to indicate moving in the direction of the raw material supplier.
Downstream Used as a relative reference in a firm or supply chain to indicate moving in the direction of the end customer.

Planned intercompany demandPlanned demand for a product in a company based on planned demand for the product from a downstream
company.
Intercompany planning groupA group of legal entities planned together in intercompany master scheduling.

Small note:- If any Inter company sales or purchase orders are raised and firmed in individual legal entities then we can process those Sales and purchase orders.
We can view all the Inter company orders in the  following path...

 Master planning > Common > Intercompany supply and demand


And Inter company planning group will decide which planing has to run in which Legal entity which we can define and view it from


Master planing --> Setup --> Inter company planning group