E-Business Suite uses many types of organizations. These are important to the framework and functionality of E-Business Suite. The following is an example of an organization hierarchy. The organization is a data entity that is truly owned by the HR application/module in E-Business Suite, but if HR is not fully installed, that is you are not using Oracle HR, it gets installed in a shared mode. In this situation most people use the Inventory module to access, create, modify, and maintain organizations. If you had HR installed and were using Oracle HR you would not use this function from Inventory.
The previous figure is a linear depiction of how organizations are used within E-Business Suite. The following points explain in a little detail what each element means and how it is used: