Business Groups in Oracle Application R12

This Article talks about the Importance of business group in Multi organization Setups, Definition and necessary setups.

Business group:

The business group is the highest level in the organization structure which represents a consolidated enterprise, a major division, or an operation company. Oracle Applications secures human resources information, including organization definition, by business group.

It is mandatory to define at least one business group for defining Organization structure in Oracle applications.

While Implementation even the predefined business group provided by Oracle application can be used but if we intend to define a business group we also need to consider defining the mandatory HR Flexfileds which we will discuss in this article below.

Business group Can be defined using the Navigation :

HR Super user responsibility àWork Structureà Organizations.

(Organization Type: Business group)

For every business group for Organization setup Business Group profile option at the responsibility level for the new business group needs to Assigned before creating the Organizations as the Default business group is assigned on the basis of this profile

Profile option:

HR: Business Group at Responsibility Level

HR: Security Profile at Responsibility Level

Oracle Human Resources also automatically creates a security profile with the business group name when you define a new business group. Please see the Security Profiles article for further details.

Multiple ledgers can share the same business group if they share the same business group attributes, including HR flexfield structures.

Defining Mandatory HR Key Flexfields.

Here we will see the Mandatory HR Key Flexfields which are required for an Oracle Applications implementation.

These Key flexfields are required to be defined even if the HRMS module is installed in Shared mode, because these Key flexfields are required for defining the Business groups.

Below is the list of the Mandatory Key Flex fields Required.

Human Resource Application Key Flexfields

·        Human resource               -- Job flexfield

·        Human resource               -- Position flexfield

·        Human resource               -- Grade flexfield

·        Human resource               -- Competence Flexfield

Payroll Application Key FlexFields

·        Payroll   -- Cost Allocation Flexfield

·        Payroll   -- People Group Flexfield