Steve Emmons
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Thank you Crystal – I have my knee jerk suspicions on the direction I’ll need to go for a no-code solution, and have designed an enhancement to accommodate the ask IF push comes to shove and I can’t get across the finish line with OOTB functionality. Any feedback from the community is appreciated!
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Hello Zvirka,
The “early implementation” decision to load a distinct Product ID for each Released Product ID, unique by legal entity (even though the Product is shared and visible across legal entities) predates me, unfortunately. I believe that it may have been, at least in part, due to a desire to model the legacy systems’ use of a similar concept to the external item ID for intercompany order processing.
The business went live with an intercompany order processing approach that leveraged the EDI integration, sending a purchase order out of the demand legal entity, through EDI as an 850, and into the supply legal entity using the external item ID as the “link”There’s now a desire to roll that decision back, and use standard intercompany, particularly due to a forthcoming initiative for the creation of a new legal entity where intercompany ordering will also be performed. We have a hard “no” on the idea of reimplementing released products across legal entities with a common (shared) Product, and to the best of my knowledge, there is no way (safe or otherwise) to decouple a released product from an existing product and re-associate it to another product given the risk of, among other things, violating possible storage/tracking dimension setup variances, compromising transactional history, etc..
