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 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. |
| 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. |
| Financial Reporting | Not used. But you can map data from the Organization integration table as a custom business object in the Business Objects Configuration integration table. |
| Workforce Budgeting | Required. |
This table shows the properties of the Organizations business object and uses these abbreviations:
- BP: Budgeting & Planning
- CO: Financial Consolidation
- FR: Financial Reporting
- WB: Workforce Budgeting
- R: Required
- U: Used but optional
| Field | Description | Type | BP | CO | FR | WB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Unique identifier of a record. | nvarchar | R | R | R | R |
| Name | Caption that is displayed if no language-specific translation is provided. | nvarchar | R | 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 |