AR ACCOUNT RECEIVABLES

[AR] Customer - Types & Address

Oracle has 2 customer types, Person or Organization.

Person is mainly use for retails business whereas Organization is used for company that has company as target customer.

Customer is differenciated by Party Number and Customer Number. If Customer Type isPerson, Party Number refers to Person Number, if Customer Type is Organization, Party Number refers to Organization Number.

Party Number and Customer Number are cross OUs and organizations, this means the same customer just need to be defined once. In different OUs, the Party Number and Customer Number will be shared and it will be differenciated by Customer Address.