To provide global credit limits that are shared by some or all entities within a complex, multinational organization, you can define credit relationships between parties using Oracle Trading Community Architecture Relationship Manager.
Relationship Manager lets you easily build, view, and edit relationships between entities. Using Relationship Manager, you can:
View a single party and all its relationships
Create new relationships and edit existing relationships
Focus on a particular portion of a hierarchy and edit the hierarchical structure
You can define a credit hierarchy of parties, party relationships, hierarchy levels, accounts, and account sites. Typically, the party object and party subject in a credit relationship represent a parent and child, or HQ and division hierarchy. For each entity in the hierarchy, you can view credit information, such as credit hold status, credit limits by currency, and credit review cycle.
Using Relationship Manager, you assign to your entities an existing relationship type, such as Global Ultimate, or your own user-defined Credit Management relationship type. You then link the relationships to Credit Management by assigning the relationship type to the AR: Credit Hierarchy Type profile option.
When you conduct a credit review for an entity that has hierarchical relationships, Credit Management consolidates and displays all data for the entire hierarchy.