Party Sharing Impacts and Managing Parties

Summary

Party sharing impacts and points to consider in managing parties.

Content

Oracle Cloud provides a party model with mechanism to have a central storage and maintenance of all the external parties created in cloud applications. In this model, when you create a new business entity (supplier for example), a new party is created in the central data model along with some of the profile information entered for the business entity. The party created will have a relationship of a supplier. When this supplier enters in another relationship with the organization (customer relationship for example), you can use the party for establishing this new customer relationship rather than creating a new party