The Companies and Persons module is a company-wide address management program. The module can be used to manage both internal and external addresses of companies, departments, and persons. This provides a central address management service for the whole company. Addresses can be maintained consistently.
The Companies and Persons module is divided into the categories Companies/Departments and Persons. Both categories can be referenced, i.e. users may assign persons to a company or department.
The company information comprising the street address of a company and optional department information with reference links to employees and contacts.
The persons management contains information regarding individual persons such as business address data, home address information, and reference links to a company or department. Assigning persons to companies/departments ensures an easy reproduction of a company structure. Assigning persons to companies/departments ensures that the company structure can easily be simulated.
The following additional assignment links to other modules can be defined:
The so-called relationship type must be specified when defining data allocations. The relationship type defines the type of relationship between two records, e.g. a person can be assigned as operator to an item, i.e. the person - item relationship is of the type "operator".