Company databases, legal entities and the shared-application shift

Decide which GP company databases become D365 legal entities, which become archive, and how physically isolated companies with divergent vocabularies are reconciled inside one shared application.

What you will be able to do

Introduction

Organisational modelling in a GP programme looks deceptively short. The headline mapping is one line long: a company database becomes a legal entity. The work is everything that mapping does not say.

The two-level source landscape

A GP estate has one system database and a set of company databases. That split is the map for discovery.

Deciding what each company becomes

A GP estate rarely contains only live trading entities. Typical residents include a test or training company, a company created for a divested business, an acquisition that was never fully merged, and one or more reporting-only shells. Each needs a disposition.

Vocabulary collision inside a shared application

Dimension vocabulary. If Company A's department segment uses two-digit codes and Company B's uses three-digit codes with a different meaning for overlapping values, the shared dimension set has to reconcile them.

Sites, warehouses and the topology gate

GP inventory sites carry more meaning than their name suggests, and the meaning varies by estate. A site can be a genuine physical location, a stocking policy boundary that exists to segregate availability, or an in-transit staging construct that models goods in motion.

What must be discovered rather than assumed

The GP source package supports the structural claims in this module: the system-plus-company database model, the global account framework, the site-to-warehouse mapping shape, and the in-transit risk. It does not — and cannot — establish the following, which are discovery outputs for every engagement:

Knowledge check

Summary

One active company database to one legal entity is the planning default, not a rule. Reporting-only, dormant and test companies each need an explicit disposition. GP's physical isolation does not carry into D365. Legal entities share one application, its dimensions, its products and its integration governance.