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Hierarchy Type

Each hierarchy is associated with a hierarchy type. Multiple hierarchies can share the same type and you can have multiple hierarchy types. Hierarchy types are configurable during deployment.

Oracle Billing Insight Hierarchy Manager provides the following hierarchy types:

• Billing Hierarchy. Based on the inherent structures contained within the invoice data stream. billing hierarchies are created automatically at billing data load time. The structure of the billing hierarchy cannot be modified by the end user. A simple billing hierarchy could work as shown in Figure 2.
• Business Hierarchy. Also referred as organizational hierarchy. Business hierarchies are user- defined structures that represent the business' groups and cost centers, they can contain service line usage and charges taken from multiple accounts.

Figure 2 shows a simple billing hierarchy structure.

Figure 2. Simple Billing Hierarchy Structure