Enterprise Structures Business Process Model

In Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, the Enterprise Performance and Planning Business Process Model illustrates the major implementation tasks that you perform to create your enterprise structures.

This process includes:

Set Up Enterprise Structures business process, which consists of implementation activities that span many product families.
Information Technology, a second Business Process Model which contains the Set Up Information Technology Management business process.
Define Reference Data Sharing, which is one of the activities in this business process and is important in the implementation of the enterprise structures. This activity creates the mechanism to share reference data sets across multiple ledgers, business units, and warehouses, reducing the administrative burden and decreasing the time to implement.

The following figure and table describe the Business Process Model structures and activities.

This figure shows the Business Process Model (BPM) structures: Enterprise Planning and Performance Management: Set Up Enterprises Structures and Information Technology: Set Up Information Technology Management. The figure shows BPM activities including:: Define Enterprise, Define Enterprise Structures, Define Legal Jurisdictions and Authorities, Define Legal Entities, Define Business Units, Define Financial Reporting Structures, Define Chart of Accounts, Define Ledgers, Define Accounting Configurations, Define Facilitates, and Define Reference Data Sharing.

The table describes each BPM activity.

BPM Activities	Description
Define Enterprise	Define the enterprise to get the name of the deploying enterprise and the location of the headquarters.
Define Enterprise Structures	Define enterprise structures to represent an organization with one or more legal entities. Define organizations to represent each area of business within the enterprise.
Define Legal Jurisdictions and Authorities	Define information for governing bodies that operate within a jurisdiction.
Define Legal Entities	Define legal entities and legal reporting units for business activities handled by the Oracle Fusion Applications.
Define Business Units	Define business units of an enterprise to perform one or many business functions that can be rolled up in a management hierarchy. A business unit can process transactions on behalf of many legal entities. Normally, it has a manager, strategic objectives, a level of autonomy, and responsibility for its profit and loss.
Define Financial Reporting Structures	Define financial reporting structures, including organization structures, charts of accounts, organizational hierarchies, calendars, currencies and rates, ledgers, and document sequences which are used in organizing the financial data of a company.
Define Chart of Accounts	Define chart of accounts including hierarchies and values to enable tracking of financial transactions and reporting at legal entity, cost center, account, and other segment levels.
Define Ledgers	Define the primary accounting ledger and any secondary ledgers that provide an alternative accounting representation of the financial data.
Define Accounting Configurations	Define the accounting configuration that serves as a framework for how financial records are maintained for an organization.
Define Facilities	Define your manufacturing and storage facilities as Inventory Organizations if Oracle Fusion Applications track inventory balances there and Item Organizations if Oracle Fusion Applications only track the items used in the facility but not the balances.
Define Reference Data Sharing	Define how reference data in the applications is partitioned and shared.

Note: Some product-specific implementation activities aren't listed here and depend on the applications you're implementing. For example, you can implement Define Enterprise Structures for Human Capital Management, Project Management, and Sales Management.