Intercompany Purchasing

Marlin Tyre and Mechanical Workshop Software enables the streamlined purchasing of inventory from other companies and warehouses within the same Marlin Enterprise.

Branches of different companies within the same Marlin system can be set up as subsidiary customers and suppliers, which can then be used to send and receive orders between each other.

The ordering branch can submit a supplier order which will automatically create a customer order at the supplying branch.

Once filled, the order is invoiced and dispatched by the supplying branch, and can be received and invoiced by the ordering branch, with any outstanding balances recorded against their subsidiary customer and supplier accounts, as usual.

To enable intercompany purchasing, please contact the Megabus Support Team.

Intercompany Purchases

As with regular supplier orders, intercompany purchases can be performed by first submitting an order to the supplying branch, or the order can be placed externally and the supplying branch can send the items and supplier invoice to the ordering branch, without first needing to receive an order through Marlin.

If desired, a user at the ordering branch can add and submit a supplier order to the supplying branch's subsidiary supplier.

Once the supplier order is submitted at the ordering branch, Marlin will automatically create a customer order at the supplying branch, from the subsidiary customer with the designated order type and salesperson.

Once received (via Marlin or otherwise), the supplying branch can then dispatch and invoice the customer order as usual.

Once the customer order has been invoiced at the supplying branch, Marlin will automatically create a supplier invoice in the supplier inbox (regardless of whether a supplier order was originally submitted by the ordering branch).

The Customer Reference cell on the customer order will be used as the Supplier Reference on the created supplier order.

Once the items are received, the supplier invoice can be processed as usual at the receiving/ordering branch.

Intercompany Salespeople

The salesperson assigned to customer orders created when submitting intercompany supplier orders can be set using the InterCompanyPurchasing.CustomerOrder.SalesPerson enterprise setting.

The intercompany salesperson needs to be a user assigned as a salesperson at the supplying branch.

Intercompany Order Types

The default order type used for both orders and credits created when submitting intercompany supplier orders can be set using the InterCompanyPurchasing enterprise settings.

The default order type used for orders created when submitting intercompany supplier orders can be set using the InterCompanyPurchasing.CustomerOrderType.Sales enterprise setting.

The default order type used for credits created when submitting intercompany supplier orders can be set using the InterCompanyPurchasing.CustomerOrderType.Credit enterprise setting.

The intercompany order types for both orders and credits need to be added at the supplying branch.

as far as i know it doesn't matter where the order types are added

Automatic Subsidiary Supplier Orders

Multi-company Enterprise systems can be configured to automatically create the corresponding supplier order at the receiving branch, whenever a subsidiary order is received or invoiced.

Automatic subsidiary supplier order creation can be turned on by enabling the InterCompanyPurchasing.AutoCreateCustomerOrdersWhenReceiving branch setting for the receiving branch.