The Supplier Related Companies table holds records containing company information of companies related to the Supplier added by a supplier lead during the Supplier Profile creation.
Information stored in the Supplier Related Companies records includes:
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The Supplier Related Companies table is used to store the related companies (Parent/Subsidiary/Partner) to the Supplier in the Supplier Profile. They are not created in the Companies table because they may be duplicates of existing companies, and the Supplier Manager is not expected to review each of the subsidiary companies or the parent company to check if they are a duplicate record.
Records in this table can be edited only when their latest Supplier Profile is in Draft, Pending Review or Pending Supplier status.
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The Supplier Related Companies table has a very simple workflow of three statuses with no executed actions. Records are always created in Requires Review status.
Ownership
Supplier Related Companies records are owned by the record Creator. The field by which the ownership is determined is user Login.