Organizations

Typically, organizations represent cost centers. A cost center can reflect an organizational structure of any type within an accounting unit. A cost center can contain departments, for example.

In Infor d/EPM, organizations are often used for approvals in the hierarchical workflow.

This table shows the business applications in which the use of business data from the Organizations business object is required:

Business application Use of the Organizations business data
Budgeting & Planning Optional.

To use the hierarchical approval, you must activate and configure the Organizations business object.

Workforce Budgeting Required.
Financial Consolidation Not used. But you can map data from the Organization integration table to a segment as a custom business object during the consolidation core configuration.

This table shows the properties of the Organizations business object and uses these abbreviations:

  • BP: Budgeting & Planning
  • WB: Workforce Budgeting
  • CO: Financial Consolidation
  • R: Required
  • U: Used but optional
Field Description Type BP WB CO
ID Unique identifier of a record. nvarchar R R R
Name Caption that is displayed if no language-specific translation is provided. nvarchar R R R
ParentID Parent ID.

If left blank, then Parent ID is by default assigned to the top-level All Organizations (TOTAL_ORGANIZATION) value.

Note: A record can be assigned to multiple parents.
nvarchar U U
Weight Used to control the roll-up into parents.

Typically set to 1.

Note: We do not recommend using other values than 1.
float U U
OrderPosition Position of an element in the resulting dimension. integer U U
LangEN Name translated into English. nvarchar U U
LangDE Name translated into German. nvarchar U U
LangFR Name translated into French. nvarchar U U
LangES Name translated into Spanish. nvarchar U U
LangJA Name translated into Japanese. nvarchar U U
LangPT_BR Name translated into Portuguese (Brazilian). nvarchar U U
LangRU Name translated into Russian. nvarchar U U
LangIT Name translated into Italian. nvarchar U U
LangZH_CHS Name translated into Chinese (Simplified). nvarchar U U
LangCS Name translated into Czech. nvarchar U U
LangNL Name translated into Dutch. nvarchar U U
LangDA Name translated into Danish. nvarchar U U
LangSV Name translated into Swedish. nvarchar U U
LangNO Name translated into Norwegian. nvarchar U U
LangPL Name translated into Polish. nvarchar U U
LangTH Name translated into Thai. nvarchar U U
LangFI Name translated into Finnish. nvarchar U U
LangKO Name translated into Korean. nvarchar U U
LangMS Name translated into Malaysian. nvarchar U U
LangFR_CA Name translated into French (Canadian). nvarchar U U
LangZH_TW Name translated into Chinese (Traditional). nvarchar U U
LangID Name translated into Indonesian. nvarchar U U
LangVI Name translated into Vietnamese. nvarchar U U