Corporate group ID

A corporate group is an affiliation of legally independent companies under the common management of a controlling company. It is the highest organizational unit. A corporate group can be, for example, a company with several subsidiaries that are defined, from an accounting point of view, as individual companies.

A corporate group ID is the internal identification number of a group of receivers (for example subsidiaries). This key field in the sender registry connects senders to the receivers that they deliver to.

Additional background: Corporate group IDs were introduced in Kofax ReadSoft Entrance to meet the requirements resulting from a specific but common situation: When a company consists of many merged subsidiaries that have their own ERP system, each with its own sender registry, the same sender can exist in multiple registries but using a different sender name and number. Corporate group IDs map receivers and senders to each other, allowing multiple sender registries to be merged into one set of Kofax ReadSoft Entrance master data. (See example.)