When a controller initiates a consolidation for all units in the U.S.

If you can run a consolidation process and a local consolidation process run at the same time, you can also run multiple consolidation processes. In the scenario described here, one consolidation is a subset of the other, so the CPM Server is doing duplicate work. Running multiple consolidations of different slices of data would be more reasonable. Also, since the consolidation process is processor and memory intensive, your overall consolidation performance could be severely impacted by running multiple consolidations. If you have multiple consolidations to run, most likely it is more efficient to run them serially, so that each one has full use of the system resources. You can determine this by monitoring processor and memory utilization on the server computer.