Virtual enterprises overview

Most users of Infor e-Commerce are buyers from customer companies. Each e-Commerce user is assigned to a user group, each of which represents a customer company or the merchant company. In some ERPs such as M3, users are employees of the company that owns the system.

To interface the two systems, you must establish one or more virtual enterprises in the Business Center. Depending on how you can register orders, you can use a single virtual enterprise for all orders or establish a different one for some or all customer companies (user groups) and customer users.

A virtual enterprise is defined as a unique combination of these values:

• Tenant ID
• Accounting Entity
• Warehouse ID
• Order Type
  Note: This field applies only to M3.
• Simulate Order Type
  Note: This field applies only to M3.

In a typical setup, you can use the same tenant, accounting entity, and warehouse for all of your virtual enterprises, while changing the order type for each customer company.

Infor e-Commerce holds a default virtual enterprise, which is initially assigned to each new customer company. You can override this by defining and selecting an alternative enterprise for any or each company in the Business Center. Similarly, when you assign a new user to a customer company, that company’s virtual enterprise is inherited by the user, though you can override this for any or each user. Each user belongs to only one virtual enterprise.