Subsidiary

A subsidiary represents an individual business unit. For smaller retailers, there will only be a single subsidiary that controls all stores. For larger retailers, multiple subsidiaries will be required. For example, a retailer that operates in 30 countries may want to have 30 subsidiaries, one for each country in which the retailer has stores. In contrast to a subsidiary, a store represents a single inventory location.
When initializing Prism, you select the subsidiaries whose data will be copied to the Prism server. Only those subsidiaries selected will be available at that Prism server.
To add/edit subsidiaries, select Local Preferences > Node Selection. The top level of Node Selection preferences displays the list of subsidiaries for the enterprise. To edit an existing subsidiary, click the pencil icon.

To add a new subsidiary, click the New Subsidiary button.  When defining a new subsidiary, the next sequential number is entered. You can change the number, if necessary (each subsidiary in the enterprise must have a different number). Enter a name and select the Active checkbox. Select a Base Currency, Country, Season, and Retail Calendar. Save the changes.
Edit Subsidiary dialog:

 
Subsidiary Modeling
The Subsidiary Modeling feature allows you to copy merchandise records and preference settings from one subsidiary to another. The data that can be copied during Subsidiary Modeling includes:

• Inventory: All Inventory records are copied from the model to the target.
• Departments: All Department records are copied from the model to the target.
• Vendors: All vendor records are copied from the model to the target.
• Node Preferences: All node preferences are copied from the model to the target.

1. In the Admin Console, navigate to the Node Preferences area. Click Node Selection on the menu.    
2. Find the Subsidiary that will be the target of the operation. This is the subsidiary into which you will copy records. Click the Edit button. 
3. Click the Model Subsidiary button.  
4. In the dialog, the Target Subsidiary is hard-coded. Click the Source Subsidiary dropdown and pick the desired subs. Merchandise records will copied from this sub to the Target Sub. If you selected the wrong Target Subsidiary, click Cancel to go back to the list of subs and then find the desired subsidiary and edit it.
5. Select the individual merchandise record types you want to copy. Selecting Inventory, automatically selects Department and Vendor, too. Click the Apply button.  A confirmation is displayed. The copy process does not take long, but you can check on the status in the Tech Toolkit Scheduler area.    

Subsidiary Modeling is run as a "once only" scheduled task.

Change the Subsidiary on Documents and Records
Users with the required permission can change the subsidiary (and/or store) on documents and records. The UI of individual documents and records includes an element for selecting a different subsidiary (or store).