Difference between party merge and account merge

Difference between party merge and account merge

Here we are going to Discuss about the Difference between party merge and account merge. Account merge is the subset of Party Merge in Oracle apps r12. Party Merge is the Feature of Oracle TCA architecture. One Party Merge can involve many Account Merges but Account Merge is only specific to single Account. Account Merger is related to the Customer or Supplier but Party Merge could be link with BU, Supplier and Customers , Employees and many other entities. We need to perform Party merge and then perform the customer merge. It operates on the simple logic, First Parent records need to be merged before merging the child records. Here I will explain each Party merger and account merge differences in Detail.

 

Account Merge :-

When merging two different customers, you must merge all site uses associated with the customer being merged. For example, Customer A and customer B each has one Bill-To site and one Ship-To site. You can transfer activity from A to B by merging like site uses assigned to B(for example, Bill-To's merged with Bill-To's).When You merge one customer to Another , System Automatically Transferred all the Receipts ,AR Invoices and other Activities of the Old Customer to this New Customer so the Liability of the customer will be transferred to this New supplier too.

 

Party merge :-

We all know that TCA. TCA(Trading Community Architecture) comes for picture in Oracle apps r12. TCA more related to Party and more about Customer Oriented. In TCA , Oracle treats every thing in Oracle application as party , which could be become its potential customer in future. To more clarifying this Statement , I will share the Working Examples as below.

For Example I have create the Supplier A in Oracle apps but as per TCA architecture , Oracle will automatically create this Supplier A as an Party because according to TCA , Supplier can also be my Potential Customer in Future. So in Future If I need to sell some goods to this Supplier A , then I can directly create the Customer From this Party A So one Party will become my Supplier and Customer Both but with Different Relation Ship

In Party Merge , there could be a merging of many other business level Entities Like as per my previous example Party A has both Supplier and Customer so if we will do the Merging of This Party A Both supplier A and Customer A will be merged to another Party B.