There are prerequisites for setting up an organization in the application. They are as follows:
Setting up locations (will be covered later in this chapter under the Defining a location in Oracle Apps section)
Entering organization types
A business group is nothing but an organization of type business group. Similarly, you have organizations of different types in your enterprise.
There are various types of organizations that you can define in HRMS. Examples are as follows:
Corporate headquarters
Department
Division
Operating unit
Regional office
Store
Start Date and Name are mandatory for defining an organization. Organization type and location are nonmandatory.
There is no specific use of organization type, but it is mostly used for reporting only. Oracle has provided seeded LOV for organization type, and if required, we can add additional types to that LOV.
As mentioned earlier, organizations can be either internal or external.
Employees can only be assigned to an...