Partner

A Partner in the stock management context is a business entity involved in the physical flow of goods — primarily the farms and producers delivering commodities, the trading companies and buyers receiving them, and the logistics providers moving them in between. Partners are the who behind every contract, every transaction, and every payment in the stock system.

Each partner record carries identifying information such as the legal name, company code, VAT number, LFBIS number (the Austrian agricultural business registration), GLN (Global Location Number for logistics and EDI), and external IDs for cross-referencing with external systems such as agricultural subsidy registries or ERP platforms. On the financial side, the partner holds references to its default currency, tax groups (for purchase and sales), and debitor/creditor account numbers for accounting integration. Partners can also hold packaging instruction codes, determining what packaging materials are expected or provided when goods are delivered. The combination of these fields makes the Partner record the single source of truth for everything the system needs to know about a trading counterpart.