Segments 1-3

The Segments 1-3 business objects refer to three custom structures to reflect, for example, business areas, regions, or products of a business. Their use is optional and depends on a specific business use case.

The use of segments is mainly driven by Infor EPM Financial Consolidation and is based on legal requirements. Typically, one reason you might use segments is if there is a legal requirement that, for example, the financial statements of an entity must report the main segments that drive the business. For example, if the revenue of a company in Asia contains 90% of the total revenue of the entity, this value must be reported in compliance with the logic of consolidation. Because business structures of entities or groups vary from customer to customer, many segments can be reported.

The use of business data from the Segments 1-3 business objects is optional in Budgeting & Planning, Workforce Budgeting, and Financial Consolidation.

Note: Without segmentation, you cannot run any consolidation processes that involve segment elimination.

This table shows the properties of the Segments 1-3 business objects 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 Segments[n] (TOTAL_SEGEMENT) value.

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

Typically set to 1.

float U U U
OrderPosition Position of an element in the resulting dimension. integer U U U
LangEN Name translated into English. nvarchar U U U
LangDE Name translated into German. nvarchar U U U
LangFR Name translated into French. nvarchar U U U
LangES Name translated into Spanish. nvarchar U U U
LangJA Name translated into Japanese. nvarchar U U U
LangPT_BR Name translated into Portuguese (Brazilian). nvarchar U U U
LangRU Name translated into Russian. nvarchar U U U
LangIT Name translated into Italian. nvarchar U U U
LangZH_CHS Name translated into Chinese (Simplified). nvarchar U U U
LangCS Name translated into Czech. nvarchar U U U
LangNL Name translated into Dutch. nvarchar U U U
LangDA Name translated into Danish. nvarchar U U U
LangSV Name translated into Swedish. nvarchar U U U
LangNO Name translated into Norwegian. nvarchar U U U
LangPL Name translated into Polish. nvarchar U U U
LangTH Name translated into Thai. nvarchar U U U
LangFI Name translated into Finnish. nvarchar U U U
LangKO Name translated into Korean. nvarchar U U U
LangMS Name translated into Malaysian. nvarchar U U U
LangFR_CA Name translated into French (Canadian). nvarchar U U U
LangZH_TW Name translated into Chinese (Traditional). nvarchar U U U
LangID Name translated into Indonesian. nvarchar U U U
LangVI Name translated into Vietnamese. nvarchar U U U