Business Units in Services Forecasting

The Services Forecasting feature uses these business units:

• General ledger (GL) business units.

  Forecast frequency, horizon, and horizon periods are defined and generated by the GL business unit.

• Project business units.

  The projects and activities to which a resource can enter forecast or actual time are controlled by project business units.

• Human resource (HR) business units.

  Each resource belongs to an HR business unit. You can analyze resource utilization based on HR business units.

The relationship between GL business units and HR business units is defined in the HR Business Unit record (BUS_UNIT_TBL_HR), which is keyed by the Business Unit field (BUSINESS_UNIT). HR business units that are associated with employees are maintained in the Job record (JOB).