In EMT, a multilevel organization is one with a top level, one or more middle levels, and a bottom level. The top level, or level 1, is equivalent to the PBU in standard EMT. The bottom level, or level 3, is equivalent to the SBU. The middle level (level 2) is where most multilevel EMT processing occurs. A level 2 EMT sales order is both a secondary sales order to a level 1 business unit and a primary sales order to a level 3 business unit.

Although multilevel EMT involves complex transactions, most are processed automatically, with minimal user intervention. Once the system has been set up for multilevel EMT sales order processing, you create and modify sales orders in the same way you do using standard EMT.

When supported by EDI eCommerce, multilevel EMT can handle orders across multiple levels of an organization.

In Multiple Levels Within an Organization, suppliers, items, and item-sites are set up in such a way that a line item on an EMT sales order received from Hong Kong at Kuala Lumpur automatically creates an EMT purchase order at another level (Manila or Perth). The system uses control and master data to determine that the domain has been set up for EMT order processing and is designated as a multilevel EMT business unit. There can be a mix of level 1, level 2, and level 3 sales orders residing in the same EMT domain at the same time