Setting up segmentation—subsidiaries, locations, departments, and classes
We use segmentation in NetSuite to classify and categorize purchases, sales, and items, among other things. NetSuite’s Help also refers to this as classification. Both terms mean the same thing. This is most helpful for accounting and other types of reporting, and so the accounting teams usually have a lot of opinions for exactly how this needs to be done.
NetSuite offers the following lists as the primary means for segmenting a company’s activities. We can set these records up in an account via the Setup | Company menu selections, and then the appropriate choice as described below. As you do this, think about the hierarchies at play and define the base records (a parent subsidiary, for instance) before the child records (sub-locations, for instance).
Subsidiaries
A subsidiary is the highest level of segmentation. It represents the business’s legal entities (in fact, many...