Adding and associating company records with a business organization

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title: Adding and associating company records with a business organization
description: Create a company record and associate it to an internal or external organization \(formerly internal or external business location\).Associate your company records with a business organization \(formerly business location\) to enhance service organization data model adoption across different industry verticals.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/customer-service-management/associate-company-with-bus-loc.html
release: australia
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Create a business organization, Configure Service Model Foundation, Data models, Set up your environment, Configure, Customer Service Management]
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# Adding and associating company records with a business organization

Create a company record and associate it to an internal or external organization \(formerly internal or external business location\).

**Important:** Some table and field labels have been changed across recent releases. For a mapping of former labels to current labels, see [Service Model Foundation renamed Entities](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/customer-service-management/renamed-entities.md).

|Task|Description|
|----|-----------|
|[Add a new company](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/platform-administration/t_AddANewCompany.md)|Create a company record that represents vendors, manufacturers, or customers with whom you do business.|
|[Associate company records with a business organization](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/customer-service-management/associate-company-with-bus-loc.md)|Associate company records with a business organization to indicate that a business organization is a company.|

## Associate company records with a business organization

Associate your company records with a business organization \(formerly business location\) to enhance service organization data model adoption across different industry verticals.

### Before you begin

Add the **Company** field to an internal or external organization \(formerly internal or external business location\) form using the form layout. For more information, see [Add fields to a form layout in Table Builder](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/application-development/add-form-fields.md).

**Important:** Some table and field labels have been changed across recent releases. For a mapping of former labels to current labels, see [Service Model Foundation renamed Entities](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/customer-service-management/renamed-entities.md).

Role required: admin, user\_admin

### Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Customer Service** > **Business Organizations** > **Internal/External Organizations**.

2.  Select the internal or external organization from the list that you want to associate a company record to.


3.  Select the company record previously created from the Company field.

4.  Select and hold \(or right-click\) in the header and select **Save**.


### Result

The company record is successfully associated with a business organization.