Company

A company is the highest level of the HR company structure. Your organization must have at least one company number but you can have more than one.

Companies can be a "parent organization" for separate entities within an organization. For example, an organization may have an entity that operates hospitals and another entity that operates a medical supplies distribution center. Even though these two entities never interact with each other, they are under the same company within the Infor Human Resources application. – or – Companies can be the main organizational level above a number of divisions or departments within an organization. For example, an organization operates hospitals, but within that operation there are multiple hospitals in different areas of the country. Each area is a different division within the organization that interacts with the other divisions and all are under the same company in the Human Resources application.

Employees cannot transfer from one company to another. If employees frequently transfer from one federal tax entity to another, it may be more convenient to use one company with multiple process levels instead of multiple companies.

Each company can have a unique setup within all HR applications. For example, you cannot use application codes, such as job codes, across all companies in an HR company structure.

Each company creates its own standard reports. Therefore, if you need consolidated reporting for all divisions, you may want to choose one company number with multiple process levels. You cannot run standard reports that contain information on more than one company.

Each company represents a tax reporting ID, but process levels within a company can have their own tax reporting IDs, as well.

Ideally, there is a one-to-one relationship between the HR company number and the General Ledger (GL) company number. You can have a single HR company post entries to multiple GL companies. If you have multiple HR companies and multiple GL companies, these must be one-to-one relationships.