The business group organizations you define represent each legislative unit under which your business operates. Within each business group, you can define organizations to represent the structure of your enterprise.
Organizations and employees are partitioned by business groups. Many enterprises choose to use a single business group so that they can manage and report information from all parts of the enterprise at the same time. However, companies that have foreign operations must have a unique business group for each country. This enables them to deal with local legislative requirements and to define unique structures, jobs, benefits, and compensation policies.
You can choose to have multiple business groups even if you do not have foreign operations. If you have multiple business groups, you must first define a top organization that will encompass all business groups.
Within each business group you define the groupings in which employees work, such as divisions, branches, departments, or sections. You also maintain information about various types of external organizations relevant to human resources, payroll, or administration. For example, you might define an organization as external to record a work site address at which employees are stationed for extended periods of time.
For more information on business groups and structuring your enterprise, see Adapting or Creating a New Business Group, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
Using the Cross Business Group Profile Option
In the Oracle HRMS model, the business group is at the country level and a top organization encompasses all business groups in a company worldwide. People, projects, jobs, and organizations can be located in different business groups for different countries and all information can be shared throughout the enterprise.
Oracle Projects allows the visibility of all business groups to one another. For example, you can search staff resources on projects across business groups, and charge any project across the enterprise for a resource.
You control access to single or multiple business groups by setting the profile option HR: Cross Business Group:
- Set the profile option to Yes to allow cross business group access.
- Set the profile option to No to allow only single business group access.
For more information, see: Providing Data Across Business Groups.
For information about cross business group access and Oracle Projects security, see Providing Additional User Level Security for Responsibilities.
Defining a Business Group
You use the Organization window to retrieve the view-all security profile with the same name as the business group. You enter the name of your business group to create your business group.
The business group you define appears in the list of values when you set up the HR: Security Profile profile option.
You must also define required business group information. Note that even though you must fill in a value for every segment in the Business Group Flexfield, Oracle Projects uses only the following information:
- Short name
- Employee Number Generation
- Job Flexfield Structure
- Project Burdening Organization Hierarchy
Oracle Projects defaults the Project Burdening Organization Hierarchy to each burden schedule you define. The system uses the Organization Hierarchy/Version to determine the default burden multiplier when it compiles a burden schedule. See: Project Burdening Hierarchy Organizations.
You must define the organization hierarchy before you associate it with a business group. See: Defining Organization Hierarchies.
Oracle Human Resources incorporates all other organizations that you specify into the business group that you define. See: Setting Up Security in Oracle HRMS, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide.
Security Groups
Security groups are a method of partitioning data. When you use the standard HRMS security model, you do not use security groups. The business group is the only data partition. Responsibilities are linked to business groups. Therefore, to access different business groups, users must change responsibilities.
If you want one responsibility to be enabled for more that one business group, you must use Cross Business Group responsibility security. In this model, security groups are defined to partition data within a business group. Multiple security groups can then be linked to one responsibility, even if they partition different business groups.
To use security groups you must set the user profile option Enable Security Groups to Yes and run the Multiple Security Groups process.
Related Topics
Using the Cross Business Group Profile Option
Security Groups, Configuring, Reporting and System Administration in Oracle HRMS.
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