Implementation options for holding company.

Many times we are facing this scenario. Our client has more than one business (legal) entities. How do you deal with that ?

Option 1: Implement in single Adempiere client (A as the holding company). The subsidiaries will go as Organization A1, Organization A2, and so on.

Consequences:
– All subsidaries must be 100% own, as Adempiere don’t take care of % role up.
e.g. Company A own 51% of company A1, hence only will take in 51% of profit, assets, liability…etc…
– All data is in one Client instance. So,
+ Online realtime information access & reports
+ One mass up, all mass up (possible)
+ One Financial Calendar (not all company share the same Financial Calendar.
Some are Industry driven.)   – You can make each Organization have their own calendar but at the end you lose the ability to consolidate)
+ So everyone open and close period the same time.
+ One accounting schema (Segment value is also very much Industry specific)
+ One accounting elements (COA) – Don’t think it goes well with CFO of each subsidary. Normally they like to be in FULL control of their accounts set up/make up.
+ No need manual export, format, load data
+ Security access control is much more challenging
+ All must have real time connection to one server

Option 2: Implement into separate Adempiere clients.

Consequences:
– Will be the opposite of above
– Need a consolidation module to produce consolidated Financial Report for holding company.

– If you install in different instances (can be physical or virtual server), you can back up separately. One goes down, the rest is still intact. – But you need to do updates and upgrades to each instances.

Conclusion:

If all of your subsidiaries are the same industry, you can take your bet on first option. Just make sure you have a strong backup and recovery strategy. If not, it is still better to choose second option.

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