HCM Organizations

The Common Organizations Model is the underlying architecture you use to define your business organizations. You can define multiple organizations in a single installation.

It provides a number of features common to organizations:

• You define all organizations within an enterprise.

• Use organizations to build hierarchies.

• Your organizations can have specific attributes based on organization classification.

  For example, business unit and department are organization classifications and have specific attributes.

• Organizations can have more than one classification.

  For example, classify an organization as a Department and Sales Organization to indicate that it employs sales people and is used within Oracle Fusion Human Resources Capital Management.

Here are some kinds of organization structures you can define:

• Business unit

• Department

• Division

• Enterprise

• Legal employer and payroll statutory unit

• Legal entity

• Legal reporting unit

• Marketing organization

• Reporting establishment

• Sales organization

• Tax reporting unit

Define these structures before you can create application users.

Note: Define legal entities in the Legal Entity Configurator. Legal entities that employ people are called legal employers and are copied into the organizations model for the purposes of integration with Financial and HCM applications.

The HCM Configuration Workbench is an interview-based tool to help you walk through the best implementation plan to represent your business. The interview tool poses questions about the name of your enterprise, the legal structure, the management reporting structure, and your primary organizing principle for your enterprise. The results of the interview helps the tool suggest the best methods to implement business units for your enterprise and ensure a successful deployment of the Oracle Fusion applications.