PartnerHierarchy

A PartnerHierarchy in the Sustainability context defines a structural relationship between two partner entities — for example the link between a cooperative and its member farms, or between a holding company and its subsidiary production sites. Each hierarchy entry specifies a parent partner, a child partner, the type of relationship (via the PRelationType), and an external ID for cross-referencing with certification or reporting body systems.

Understanding these hierarchical relationships is essential for sustainability reporting: when a cooperative holds a group certification, the system needs to know which individual farms fall under that certification umbrella. The Sustainability converter also supports a temporary ID mechanism (TempID) to allow external systems to create partner hierarchy entries in batch operations without knowing the final internal IDs in advance.