Process level

A process level is an organizational level defined within the HR company structure. Process levels fall below companies and above departments. A process level can belong to only one company, but it can have multiple departments below it in the HR company structure.

Examples of process levels include a location, division, plant, or revenue cost center. You must define one or more process levels for each company and number.

The following list outlines some of the characteristics of process levels:

You can set up a process level under the company tax reporting ID, or as an independent entity that has its own tax reporting ID.
Each process level can have a unique unemployment experience rating.
In the Payroll application, you can run payroll and time accrual cycles by process level or by processing groups (a group of process levels).
You must assign a process level to every employee.
You can override the currency code at the process level. The currency code of the employee must match the process level currency, if no process level currency is defined, the employee currency must match the company currency.
You can define different position management rules for each process level.
Standard reports show reporting breaks by process level; you can choose to use process levels for standard listings such as the payroll register and reports used by your accounting department.

Example

In the example, the Two Rivers organization created a company for each tax reporting ID. After further consideration, Two Rivers decides to define one company number with multiple process levels representing a unique federal tax ID. See Company.

Two Rivers realizes that they needed one HR company for these reasons:

Employees frequently transfer from one location to another.
They want standard reports to have total breaks for each tax reporting ID and give a total for Two Rivers as a whole.

So, Two Rivers sets up one company with eight process levels instead of multiple companies.