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Business Group. Enter the name of the business group that you want to associate with Purchasing. If you use Purchasing jointly with Oracle Human Resources, you must reference the business group that you define in Oracle Human Resources. If you use Purchasing without Human Resources, you can use the default value. The default for this field is the Human Resources default of Setup Business Group.

The business group determines which employees you can use in Purchasing. In Purchasing, you can see only the employees in this business group.

Expense Check Address. Select the default address you want to use on payments for employee expense reports: Home or Office. The system uses this default for each new employee you enter. You can override this default during employee entry or expense report entry.

Use Approval Hierarchies. Enable this option to use positions and position hierarchies to determine approval paths for your documents within Purchasing. Disable this option of you want approval paths based on the supervisor structure.

Employee Numbering Method. You can enter your employee numbers manually or let the system generate sequential employee numbers. The system prevents you from entering a value in this field if you install Oracle Human Resources or Oracle Payroll. You can change the numbering method at any time.

• Automatic. The system automatically assigns a unique sequential number to each employee when you enter a new employee.

• Manual. You enter the employee number when you enter an employee.

• Use National Identifier Number. The system automatically enters the employee's National Identifier Number as the employee number. For example, a Social Security number for a United States employee.

Attention: Be careful if you switch from manual to automatic entry. The employee number must be unique. When you use manual entry, you can assign any number and in any order. If you switch to automatic after having entered employee numbers manually, the system may try to assign a number that you already assigned. If you switch from manual to automatic entry, make sure the next available number for automatic entry is larger than the largest number you have already recorded.

Next Automatic Employee Number. If you select the Automatic Employee Numbering method, enter the starting value you want the system to use for generating unique sequential employee numbers. After you enter a number and save your changes, the system displays the number that it will assign to the next new employee you enter.