Understanding Business Unit Overrides
With advanced variable numerator allocations, you can compute allocations based on different types of basis ratios, and not just business units. You set up business unit overrides to identify the destination business units that the system uses when it computes allocations for the different types of basis ratios. Setting up business unit overrides allows you to allocate different percentages to different destination business units, based on basis values.
Basis ratios, which are defined in UDC table 09/RT, can be:
Business units
Related business units
Business unit types
Category codes 1–50
Contract type
Employee pool grouping code
Job pool grouping code
These guidelines apply to business unit overrides:
You must set up business unit overrides for category codes and business unit types. The system cannot compute allocations without destination business units, which you identify in the business unit overrides.
You can set up business unit overrides for business units and related business units; however, it is not required. If you do not set up business unit overrides for business units and related business units, the system uses the basis business unit for the destination business unit, as it does for the basic allocations program.
You set up business unit overrides in the Create Business Unit Overrides program (P09123A). Then, in the Advanced Variable Numerator program (P09123), you specify the basis ratio and enter the override name for the destination business unit. When you run the Compute Advanced Variable Numerator program (R09123), the program retrieves the business unit override values from the P09123A program, substitutes those values for the destination business units, and calculates the allocation percentages based on the basis values of the basis ratio.