Guidelines for Configuring Global Enterprises

Start your global enterprise structure configuration by discussing what your organization's reporting needs are and how to represent those needs in the Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications.

The following are some questions and points to consider as you design your global enterprise structure in Oracle Fusion Applications.

• Enterprise Configuration

• Business Unit Management

• Security Structure

• Compliance Requirements

Enterprise Configuration

• What is the level of configuration needed to achieve the reporting and accounting requirements?

• What components of your enterprise do you need to report on separately?

• Which components can be represented by building a hierarchy of values to provide reporting at both detail and summary levels?

• Where are you on the spectrum of centralization versus decentralization?

Business Unit Management

• What reporting do I need by business unit?

• How can you set up your departments or business unit accounts to achieve departmental hierarchies that report accurately on your lines of business?

• What reporting do you need to support the managers of your business units, and the executives who measure them?

• How often are business unit results aggregated?

• What level of reporting detail is required across business units?

Security Structure

• What level of security and access is allowed?

• Are business unit managers and the people that report to them secured to transactions within their own business unit?

• Are the transactions for their business unit largely performed by a corporate department or shared service center?

Compliance Requirements

• How do you comply with your corporate external reporting requirements and local statutory reporting requirements?

• Do you tend to prefer a corporate first or an autonomous local approach?

• Where are you on a spectrum of centralization, very centralized or decentralized?