Lab: model the enterprise, three ways

Four deliverables, forty-five minutes, and the first is the one that teaches. Complete the enterprise model worksheet for the four-country Northwind scenario, showing the legal, management and functional structures separately. Separately — three diagrams, or three clearly divided sections, not one merged picture with everything on it. Merging them is the natural thing to do and it is the thing this module exists to prevent. If your three structures look identical, either the organisation is unusually simple or you have not separated them properly, and it is usually the second. Configure the enterprise object with documented defaults, and a note on which are permanent. The note is the deliverable rather than the configuration: which attributes cannot meaningfully be changed later, and how do you know? Load and validate geographies for all four countries, testing an address in each. Write the centralisation decision — which objects are global, which are local,…

In this module: Module 3 · Enterprise Structures and the Global Model

1. 1Three structures, not one
2. 2The enterprise object
3. 3Modelling a global organisation
4. 4Guidelines for global enterprises
5. 5Geographies and the foundation layer
6. 6What breaks
7. 7Lab: model the enterprise, three ways