MEM Assign Entity

Use this page to assign entities to existing transactions that are not yet associated with an entity. The list shows only transactions that do not have an entity assigned.

Sales, Purchase, and Service Transactions

You can assign entities to sales, purchase, and service transactions that do not have entities: 

  • If an item within a transaction is not assigned an entity, only the specific line appears in the list.
  • If a transaction is not assigned an entity at the header level, only the transaction header appears in the list. This line appears as an outdented line in the list.

Sales and Purchase Invoices

You can assign entities to sales and purchase invoices that do not have entities. When you assign entities to posted transactions, the entities are assigned to the invoices. You can chose to have the entities applied to all line items within the invoices.

Journals

You can assign a entities to journal transactions that do not have entities. For the transaction lines, you must assign origin entities and destination entities.

Deposits and Fixed Assets

You can assign entities to deposits transactions and fixed assets.

Inventory Journals

For the following inventory journal transactions, the entities of the locations are automatically assigned:

  • Item Journal
  • Physical Inventory Journal
  • Item Reclassification Journal
  • Item Revaluation Journal
  • Recurring Item Journal

To be able to assign entities to inventory journals, following conditions must be satisfied: 

  • The transaction must have a Location Code assigned.
  • The location must have an entity.

Inventory Transactions

You can assign entities to the following inventory transactions:

  • Transfer Order
  • Physical Inventory Order
  • Physical Inventory Recording

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Projects

You can assign entities to projects and project tasks.

Work Centers and Manufacturing

You can assign entities to work center records and production order transactions.

  • When entities are assigned to production order transactions, the entities are automatically updated to their corresponding lines.
  • If the production order has related G/L, Capacity Ledger, Item Ledger, and Value entries, their entities are automatically updated from the production order, or its relevant items, locations, and work or machine centers.

Billing and Deferral Schedules

For MEM build 1.0.4.13 and newer.

You can assign entities to billing and deferral schedules when the Multi-Entity Management integration is used with Subscription Billing. For billing schedules, you can also choose to roll down the entity being assigned to a billing schedule header to all schedule lines.

PLM Leases

For MEM build 1.1.44.0 and newer.

You can assign entities to revenue or expense leases when the Multi-Entity Management integration is used with Property Lease Management.

Assembly Transactions

You can assign a entities to the following types of assembly transactions that do not have entities:

  • Assembly Orders
  • Assembly Quotes
  • Blanket Assembly Orders

Assign Entity to Transactions

To assign entities to transactions and records, follow these steps: 

  1. Select Search and type Assign Entity and select the MEM Assign Entity page.
  2. Select the transaction type or record type for which you want to assign entities.
  3. The MEM Assign Entity page showing the list of transactions or records appears.

  4. Select the lines to which you want to assign an entity, and select Assign Entity.
    The dialog page that appears provides different options for different transaction types.  
    1. For sales, purchase, jobs, and service transactions select the Entity Code you want to assign and select Roll Down To Lines to assign the entity to all lines within a transaction.
    2. For journal and work center transactions, select the Origin Entity and Destination Entity.
    3. For deposit, fixed assets, inventory journal, orders, manufacturing, and transfer transactions, select the Entity Code.
    4. Select OK.
  5. When you return to the list of records, the selected records have the entity assigned.

  6. Repeat the previous step for any other transactions you want to assign an entity.
  7. Select Apply Assigned Entity to apply the assigned entity to the transactions.

Assign Entity to Inventory

To assign entities to inventory journal or transfer order transactions, follow these steps: 

  1. Select Search and type Assign Entity and select the MEM Assign Entity page.
  2. Select INV Journal or INV Transfer Order.
  3. The MEM Assign Entity page showing the list of transactions appears.

    The Entity Code is automatically updated with the entity from the location. If the location does not have an entity, the process cannot be completed.

  4. Select Apply Assigned Entity to apply the assigned entity to the transactions.

After entities are assigned, the page is updated, and the records that were just processed no longer appear on the page. Only lines that require entities appear on the page.

If any errors are encountered, a warning message appears after all lines have been processed. You can review the log report to see the errors.

Assign Entity to Schedules

Available when Subscription Billing is used with MEM.

To assign entities to billing or deferral schedules, follow these steps: 

  1. Select Search and type Assign Entity and select the MEM Assign Entity page.
  2. Select ARCB Billing Schedules or ARED Deferral Schedules.
  3. The MEM Assign Entity page showing the list of billing or deferral schedules appears.

  4. Select the schedules to which you want to assign an entity, and select Assign Entity.
    The dialog page that appears provides different options for different schedule types.  
    1. For billing schedules, select the Entity Code you want to assign and select Roll Down To Lines to assign the entity to all schedule line items in the billing schedule.
    2. For deferral schedules, select the Entity Code.
    3. Select OK.
  5. When you return to the list of schedules, the selected schedules have the entity assigned.

  6. Repeat the previous step for any other schedules you want to assign an entity.
  7. Select Apply Assigned Entity to apply the assigned entity to the schedules.

Assign Entity to Leases

Available when Property Lease Management is used with MEM.

To assign entities to a lease, follow these steps: 

  1. Select Search and type Assign Entity and select the MEM Assign Entity page.
  2. Select PLM Leases.
  3. The MEM Assign Entity page showing the list of revenue or expense leases appears. The leases appear based on the Property Lease Management module that your organization has purchased.

  4. Select the leases to which you want to assign an entity, and select Assign Entity.
    1. In the dialog page that appears, select the Entity Code.
    2. Select OK.
  5. When you return to the list of leases, the selected leases have the entity assigned.

  6. Repeat the previous step for any other leases you want to assign an entity.
  7. Select Apply Assigned Entity to apply the assigned entity to the leases.

Assign Entity to Incoming Documents

To assign entities to incoming documents, follow these steps: 

  1. Select Search and type Assign Entity and select the MEM Assign Entity page.
  2. Select Incoming Documents.
  3. The MEM Assign Entity page showing the list of incoming documents without assigned entities appears.

  4. Select the documents to which you want to assign an entity, and select Assign Entity.
    1. In the dialog page that appears, select the Entity Code.
    2. Select OK.
  5. When you return to the list of incoming documents, the selected incoming documents have the entity assigned.

  6. Repeat the previous step for any other incoming documents you want to assign an entity.
  7. Select Apply Assigned Entity to apply the assigned entity to the incoming documents.

Assign Entity to Assembly Orders

You can assign an entity to an assembly order which is not linked to a sales document. If an assembly document is linked to a sales document, then the entity is based on the owner entity of the location, item, or resource. If the owner entity is based on the Item, then owner entity depends on theInventory Posting setting that you select in your Inventory Posting. For resources, the entity is set based on the owner entity of the resource.

If there is no owner entity assigned, then any entity can be selected and assigned.

To assign entities to assembly orders, follow these steps: 

  1. Select Search and type Assign Entity and select the MEM Assign Entity page.
  2. Select Assembly Orders.
  3. The MEM Assign Entity page showing the list of assembly transactions without assigned entities appears. The Entity Code is automatically updated with the entities from the locations, items, or resources for assembly documents which are linked to sales documents. The Entity Code is empty for assembly documents that are not linked to sales documents.

  4. Select the transactions to which you want to assign an entity, and select Assign Entity.
    1. In the dialog page that appears, select the Entity Code. Select Roll Down to Lines to assign the entity to all lines of a transaction.
    2. Select OK.
  5. When you return to the list of assembly transactions, the selected assembly orders have the entity assigned.

  6. Repeat the previous step for any other assembly transactions you want to assign an entity.
  7. Select Apply Assigned Entity to apply the assigned entity.

After entities are assigned, the page is updated, and the records that were just processed no longer appear on the page. Only lines that require entities appear on the page.

If any errors are encountered, a warning message appears after all lines have been processed. You can review the log report to see the errors.

Fields

When you review the list of the transaction types, each line provides details for the specific transaction.

Sales/Purchase/Service transactions

The list shows the transaction headers and the lines that do not belong to an entity: 

  • If both the transaction header and lines are not assigned an entity, the transaction lines appear indented below the header.
  • If the transaction header has an entity, but the lines do not, the transaction lines appear in the list.
  • If the transaction lines have an entity but the header does not, only the transaction header appears in the list.

Journals/Deposit/Item Journal/Physical Inventory Order/Inventory Transfer Order/Fixed Asset

The list shows the transaction records that do not belong to an entity.

Projects

The list shows the project and the tasks within the project that do not belong to an entity.

Incoming Documents

The list shows the incoming documents that do not belong to an entity.

Work Center

The list shows the work centers that do not belong to an entity.

Manufacturing

This list shows the production orders that do not belong to an entity and have one of the following statuses: Simulated, Planned, Firm-Planned, or Released.

When you select Assign Entity, the page where you select the entity contains the following fields: 

Field Description
Deposit/Item Journal/Inventory Transfer Order/Physical Inventory Order/Fixed Asset
Entity Code Select the entity to assign to the transaction.
Journals
Origin Entity Select the originating entity to assign to the transaction.
Destination Entity Select the destination entity to assign to the transaction.
Purchase/Sales/Projects/Service
Entity Code Select the entity to assign to the transaction.
Roll Down To Lines

Determines whether the entity is also assigned to the items within each transaction line: 

  • Selected: Assigns the same entity to all items within the transaction.
  • Cleared: Does not assign the entity to items within the transaction.

Actions

The following actions are available: 

Action Description
Apply Assigned Entity Applies entities to the selected lines.
Assign Entity

Opens a page where you select the entity to apply to the selected transactions. The page that appears has different options for the different transaction types.

  • For sales, purchase, projects, service, and manufacturing the Entity Code and the Roll Down To Lines option are available.
  • For journal and work center transactions, Origin Entity and Destination Entity are available.
  • For deposit , fixed assets, inventory journal, orders, and transfer transactions, the Entity Code is available.
Billing Schedules/Deferral Schedules (available when Subscription Billing is used with MEM)
Apply Assigned Entity Applies the assigned entity to the billing or deferral schedule(s).
Assign Entity

Opens a page where you select the Entity Code to apply to the billing or deferral schedule(s).

For billing schedules, you can also select Roll Down To Lines to roll the entity to all billing schedule line items.