Business Unit Category Codes

Use category codes to describe your organizational structure and to group your business units in as many as 50 different ways. Category codes for business units provide for higher level (rollup) or selective reporting.

In this example, business units are grouped by product, region, and division:

Business unit category codes

Category codes are position sensitive. The following example shows three unique category codes:

  • M_ _

  • _M_

  • _ _M

For this example, you must enter the characters with blanks in the correct positions to access the correct category code.

After you define your category codes and set up your business units, you need to assign the category codes to each business unit.