Re: Merging Companies -- MAPICS-L

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I would think twice about merging companies:

  a.. Company / Financial Division are pervasive in COM and IFM. In COM, things 
like orders, price books, even comments are tied to companies. In IFM, almost 
everything is tied to companies. So, you have a potentially massive duplicate 
key problem.
  b.. When ledger entries cross company lines, IFM automatically balances 
debits and credits. So, having two companies is much less of a hassle from a 
transaction processing viewpoint.
  c.. If you are using FRx for reporting, it is relatively easy to report the 
two companies as if they were one company.
  d.. Most of the data in COM and IFM-AR has a relatively short active life. If 
you just stop using one of the companies for new activity. you will have a 
relatively small amount of active data that you can transfer manually in about 
six months. 

Bob Tenney
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