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The Operating Unit is the highest level within an organization. Operating Unit can represent any type of cost center or company. An Operating Unit is unique across the entire organization. For example, Operating Unit may correspond to an organization’s "Divisions". Operating Unit is a required level of the Organization Breakdown.
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Operating Unit
The Operating Unit is the highest level or "parent" within an organization and it is required within the hierarchical organizational setup. An operating unit is unique across the entire organization and it will support any type of organizational cost center structure.
For example, an operating unit could be classified as a company division with various departments or cost centers under the operating unit. Using this example, the hierarchy would be as follows:
Operating Unit A
Department A1
Department A2
Department A3
Operating Unit B
Department B1
Department B2
Department B3
Department
The Department acts as the administrative unit for an Employee. A department is the child of its parent operating unit. Department ID's can be duplicated across operating units. For example, there can be a Department 1234 in each operating unit. Each Employee is assigned to one department.
Function
Functions are only used in DATABASICS Time and are generally used as a skill classification/cost rate category, but may be used for any purpose. Each employee is assigned a default function that will automatically appear on his timesheet. In addition, Time can be configured to allow employees to change their default function when charging time to a WBS. That is, employees mainly perform a default function, but can occasionally will perform a different function.
Location
The DATABASICS element Location is used to capture specific business sites or if specificity is not required, geographic or political consolidations. For example, different work/business rules may apply per Location with respect to the length of the workday, weekdays verses weekends, etc. Each employee is assigned to a default location, which can be changed during Time Entry on a per line basis.
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