Overview of Enterprise Structures

Oracle Applications have been designed to ensure your enterprise can be modeled to meet legal and management objectives. The decisions about your implementation of Oracle Applications are affected by your:

• Industry

• Business unit requirements for autonomy

• Business and accounting policies

• Business functions performed by business units and optionally, centralized in shared service centers

• Locations of facilities

Every enterprise has three fundamental structures that describe its operations and provide a basis for reporting.

• Legal

• Managerial

• Functional

These structures are implemented using the chart of accounts and organization hierarchies. Many alternative hierarchies can be implemented and used for reporting.