Planning Unit Hierarchy - multiple owners per Entity

Hi there everyone
I have the following scenario and hope you can help me out with a few ideas:
I have a planning unit hierachy set up. It works well except for one thing - the fact that you can assign only one owner per entity member. The business essentially has multiple owners for most entities. Ownership is determined by which accounts the user is responsible for. An example:
User 1 is an owner for Entity A, but only for accounts 111-444.
User 2 is an owner for Entity A, but only for accounts 555-777
User 3 is an owner for Entity A, but only for accounts 888-999
As far as I can see in the Edit Planning Unit Hierarchy screen, I am able to assign User 1 as an Owner for Entity A on the Assign Owners tab and I can specify accounts 111-444 in the Primary and Subhierachy Selection tab. Since I can only assign one owner, how can I now provide for User 2 and User 3 requirement?
I'm using version 11.1.2.1. Any workarounds or suggestions would be highly appreciated!
Thanks
Juanita

I had a similar business case in my previous project. There was no direct solution to this. But we had to stick to a workaround ( not a very nice and comfortable solution, but we were under critical timelines).
User 1 is an owner for Entity A, but only for accounts 111-444.
User 2 is an owner for Entity A, but only for accounts 555-777
User 3 is an owner for Entity A, but only for accounts 888-999
make a secondary hierachy with different entities i.e. User1_EntityA,User2_EntityA
Entity A
User1_EntityA
User2_EntityA
and then you can assign different users to all these entities. One major drawback with this is, if we have 100 entities with 10 users .. that will make 1000 more members.. anyhow we did it that ways.. if you get a better solution you can post it.
Thank You
Sandeep Kumar Upadhyay

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