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What is the right way to setup an intercompany vendor/customer for the parent sub? I'm getting an error since the primary sub is same as represents sub.

Primary sub is the company that is transacting. The represents sub is the company that receives it.

So if I have Sub A that buys from Sub B

The vendor is "Interco Sub B" the primary sub is "Sub A" and the Represents subsidiary field is "Sub B"

Then the customer is "Interco Sub A" the primary sub is "Sub B" and the represents subsidiary is "Sub A"

So wait. If I have multiple subs that buy from Sub B (parent)... I need separate interco customer records for each sub. And most likely just one incterco vendor record. Is my understanding correct?

You'd probably be able to get away with 1 vendor, but would need a customer for each one buying from the vendor

<@UKG15LF7S> for Intercompany Vendors with other subsidiaries buying from it, nominate only 1 of those other subsidiaries as the primary subsidiary and add the rest as secondary subsidiaries. The primary subsidiary will only act as a default subsidiary in transactions but you can still select the secondary subsidiaries in the subsidiary dropdown. For Intercompany customers, do the same but enable the Multi Subsidiary Customer in Enable Features first. The vendor side is auto enabled apparently.

Note though that this may have some limitations with other modules like Fixed Asset. In Fixed Asset Sale/Disposal for example, you are limited to primary subsidiary of the customer record. So if you have an fixed asset that you will sell to a customer with a different primary subsidiary from the subsidiary in the FA record, you can't process the FAM disposal. It's an annoying restriction.

You're right about the restrictions with multisub customer. Thanks for the inputs. I did exactly as what you two described above and got it to work now.

It should be noted, represents sub is important for eliminations to occur correctly

So even if you can physically transact with a single customer, it is still important to have a separate costumer for each buying subsidiary

Also, make sure you understand all the limitations of multi sub customers. There's a reason it's locked behind an option instead of being enabled by default

<@UER9Q3SGM> is that considered best practice? I'd imagine it would be cumbersome to find the right subsidiary-customer in a list like Sub A Customer - Sub B, Sub A Customer - Sub C. Also in tax reports those would all show up as separate lines/customers even though they're all referring to one entity. Although the multi-sub customer restrictions like the one I mentioned are annoying.

It's definitely annoying. The big thing is what multi subsidiary customers breaks. For example consolidated payments. If you are using that, it is incompatible

So turning it on to simplify Inter company could impair other business processes.

That makes sense. I guess it's a matter of pros and cons for now. OneWorld features are a mess