cifraHQ Enterprise
Glossary

Party hierarchy platform

Data model where customers and suppliers are organized in parent-child trees (corporate → division → branch) instead of flat lists.

Definition

Detail

In real B2B, "the customer" is rarely a simple entity. A retail chain has a national corporate with legal name, several operating divisions, and hundreds of branches that dispatch orders. Credit is approved at corporate, invoices are issued to the division, and goods are delivered to the branch. Modeling this as three disjoint customer records is the path to chaos: duplicated credit lines, inconsistent discounts, sales reports that do not roll up. Party hierarchy solves this with explicit relationships: each party has a type (corporate, division, branch), optional parent, and inheritable attributes (payment terms, discounts, addresses). cifraHQ Enterprise reports at whatever level the user asks for.

How does cifraHQ model Party hierarchy?

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