Case: Two companies in real life but a single company code on SAP...

Here is our case:
- In Turkey; there is a company of "Company A".
- "Company A" sells goods to "Company B" which is in Poland (export activity). The owner of "Company A" and "Company B" is the same.
- "Company A" and "Company B" have seperate balance sheets and Company B works like a storage location in Poland. Along with this fact, SAP will be set only in Company A. There won't be set a seperate company code for "Company B".
- "Company B" will be like a customer because "Company A" sells goods to "Company B".
- "Company B" will be like a storage location because to which customers with which prices the goods are sold by "Company B" should be monitored.
How should we customize this case in SAP?
Thanks in advance for the answers...

Hi
It can sell goods but the G/L accounts what ever the company code A will be maintaining will be internally only.The sales office (B) will have to send the reports for the updation of G/L accounts , like how much they have sold and how much is lying at the sales office. as the inventory. .These G/L accounts have to match
Regards
Srinath

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(Even weirder is that nobody else seems to have posted about this happening; it may not happen to everyone, but surely some people have had this same question? I feel like I'm in a Kafka novel...)

That's a good thought that could explain some cases, but not mine: these people definitely don't know my email address, and I'm not in their Address Book. (Some of these are people I might meet on a hike, say, and nod to in passing on other hikes once a or twice a year, and that's the extent of the "relationship"--no contact info ever exchanged. We don't even know what cities each other are from.)
we don't even know each others' email addresses, and even if we did, my Apple ID email is not one I use for actual emailing purposes. Nor do we know each others' phone numbers, nor gaming nicknames; often not even last names.
I should correct my first post: I said I "do now know well"... that should be "do NOT know well".

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But i'm kind sleppy and may be saying something stupid. Someone else can correct me and add more information
Last edited by Diaz (2013-12-19 07:28:06)

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