Buyside and Sellside
All organizations in the SupplyOn portal can be either customer (buyside) or supplier (sellside), because certain functions are fixed to the type of entity (e.g. a buyside entity cannot receive a Purchase order or create ASNs. Both applies to sellside organizations only).
Corporate Group(CG)
The Corporate Group is the top-level organization in the SupplyOn organization structure. Commercially, customer and supplier organizations are connected on this level. A CG can have multiple LEs.
Legal Entity (LE)
Every Legal Entity (LE) belongs to 1 Corporate Group and can have multiple Control Points.
- A Legal Entity must have an own DUNS number- User accounts are created on the level of a Legal Entity
- SupplyOn processes (e.g. AirSupply, Sourcing) are activated per LE
Control Point (CP)
- A Control Point (CP) is also referred to as a „Plant“
- A Control Point always belongs to one Legal Entity
- For SCM processes (e.g. Orders) users can be activated / restricted per Control point
Network Link (NWL)
A Network Link is the connection between a customer and a supplier CP. It contains two main information:
- 1...n Logical Filenames (decides which process can be used)
- 1...n Supplier numbers from the customer ERP system
Logical Filename (LF)
Logical Filenames are one part of Network Links. They decide which processes can be used between a customer and supplier Control Point(e.g. SO_ALL for AirSupply Ordering processes).