Organization Structure

Introduction
All parts of the WCS business whether its actor or entities, including customers, administrators, stores, catalogs and distributors, must be owned by either an organization or organizational unit.

1) Basic WCS Organization Structure
This is how the basic organization structure looks like after the WCS instance creation, regardless of the business model being used-

Root Organization- It's right there at top with all WCS organizations acting as descendants of the root organization. The site administrators are owned by the root organization.

Default Organization- The default organization is owned by the root organization. And this is where all the B2C and guest users point to.

Note: B2C users under the default organization can be managed by an administrator in WCS Accelerator. Business users outside of the default organization e.g. B2B users can be managed in the Organization Administration Console. 

 

 

2) B2C Organization Structure

The B2C organization structure contains three organizations: root, default, and seller-

 

Seller Organization- A seller organization is created to own all the stores (Retailer) and the Seller administrators who maintain the store. 

B2C Seller Organization ( Intermediate and Optional )- An intermediate B2C organization is created to own a single store (Retailer) and Seller administrators. 

 

 3) B2B Direct Organization Structure

 

Buyer Organization- B2B Buyers are represented by a buyer organization in the B2B organization structure. 

4) Extended Sites Organization Structure
The extended sites organization structure consists of the root organization, default organization, extended sites organization, and extended sites seller organization-