Line of Business

A line of business defines the industry type that a supplier operates in.

This is an additional layer of information built into the supplier record that can be used for user insights, filtering and reporting.

The line of business must be defined by a 10 character maximum code and a corresponding name.

How these could be defined by a business are detailed below;

Example 1:

Code Name

AERO Aerospace

BANK Banking

AUTO Automotive

Example 2:

Code Name

01 Aerospace

02 Banking

03 Automotive

For example;

• Virgin Atlantic operate with a line of business of Aerospace.
• HSBC Bank operate with a line of business of Banking.
• Jaguar Land Rover operates with a line of business of Automotive.

The line of business is mastered in the procurement and sourcing module whereby a list of records are configured by defining the following fields of information;

Line of business code; The line of business code presents users with an acronym displayed system wide that represents the line of business name. This field is restricted to 10 characters.

Line of business name; The line of business name defines the record within the system. This field is restricted to 60 characters.

Create your lines of business

The line of business records are defined within Dynamics 365;

The line of business can be applied to a supplier record

A single line of business is assigned to a supplier record.

Filter records using the line of business

The line of business field can be used for filtering information within the system.

Please find below the relevant PCF ID’s.

Level 1 Category: 10216

Level 2 Process Group: 10280

Level 3 Process: 10299