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 |