RE: setting up divisions -- MAPICS-L

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Bill,



Aside from MAPICS documentation, I do not know of any other material on
this subject. I don't want to reopen last week's discussion, but there some
good MAPICS User Conference or COMMON presentations on ISL and MISL that
may touch on this subject.



ISL does not interface directly with IFM. It creates inventory transactions
for IM, and customer orders for COM, and purchase orders for PUR. These
applications then interface with IFM in the normal way.



Note, IM does not support companies / financial divisions. When you set up
your general ledger interface rules for IM use the warehouse as a proxy for
company / financial division.


----- Original Message -----

From: Bill Mongan


To: mapics-l@midrange.com

Sent: 08/30/01 6:38:01 PM

Subject: RE: setting up divisions





Thanks, Bob. Yes we do need to produce separate balance sheets, so we

believe that divisionalization is the way to go. But we do also
understand

that the workload will increase.



We do have your MAPICS books, in particular the IFM book, which has
some

material on financial divisions.  But are you aware of any other
material?



So what is the detail flow, considering that we are on ISL. You mention
the

COM customers and price books, but how do these relate to IFM

interdivisional transfer functionality? i.e. IFM trading partners and

Interdivision transfer function?   Are the 2 different ways of
doing the

same thing?



Any more detail you have would be helpful.  Thanks.







-----Original Message-----

From: mapics-l-admin@midrange.com  [mailto:mapics-l-admin@midrange.com ]On

Behalf Of Bob Tenney

Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 6:53 AM

To: mapics-l@midrange.com

Subject: RE: setting up divisions





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Bill, Here are some things you should consider:









When you do pricing in COM, you should set up a customer for each
division

and then link these customers to price books that contain the
inter-division

markups for your items. Once you do this, the correctly priced items
flow

into

ISL and IFM.

Should you treat your Divisions as companies (or IFM Financial Divisions)
or

as units within a single company? Setting up separate companies
increases

your

administrative workload. Going this route makes sense if (1) You want
or

need to

produce balance sheets for the divisions; or (2) You want to take
advantage

of

certain MAPICS security features that are tied to the company. If
these

conditions do not apply, then treating the divisions as separate
customers

in

COM and separate units within IFM is the better choice.

Incidentally, if you have FRx installed, you can set up the divisions
as

units within the same company and still produce balance sheets for
these

units.

This is explained in Chapter 8 of my "FRx for Accountants"

book.



----- Original Message -----



From: Bill Mongan





To: mapics-l@midrange.com



Sent: 08/29/01 5:30:13 PM



Subject: setting up divisions











We are in the planning stages of setting up separate divisions for 2
of

our



businesses. I need to understand interdivisional transfer pricing

markups.



How is this handled?







We have ISL up and running - can it be handled within ISL? Is it done

within



IFM? or must COM, creating orders, etc. be used to charge transfer

pricing



markups?







Thanks for any insight into this issue, or any other tips relating to



setting up and operating divisions.







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