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Summary:
Can someone explain what
Business Units, TableSets and SetIDs are?
Answer
Business Units
Business Units are logical units created within your
organization for reporting purposes and don't have any
predetermined restrictions or requirements. This flexible
structuring device enables you to actually define a higher level
of reporting for your employees and group them according to
functional or administrative tasks or for your business
purposes. You can define Business Units that reflect the
specific functional needs of your internal human resources
departments, or reflect the actual business structure of your
enterprise. Your Business Units may be, for example, companies,
agencies, subsidiaries, divisions, departments, or branch
offices within your organization. Or, you may choose to have a
single Business Unit represent your entire organization. It's up
to you and your unique business needs.
TableSets and SetIDs
Once you've established Business Units, you can define TableSets,
or groups of tables, for your system-wide control tables, so
that you can share the same code values among multiple Business
Units within your enterprise. Conversely, the TableSet feature
also enables you to limit access to specific data to only those
users who need it, while maintaining all of your data on the
same tables. The flexibility to share TableSets among Business
Units enables you to centralize redundant information while you
keep other information, such as Department and Job Codes,
decentralized. You can use Business Units and TableSets to
associate a Business Unit with employees in your enterprise and
to specify how default values for currencies and country codes
will behave throughout the HRMS system, based on either the
user's Permission List or the Business Unit that the system is
referencing during a particular business process or activity.
Where a Business Unit organizes your company or your
organization, SetIDs help you organize your data within the
system. The HRMS system uses tables (Control Tables or Prompt
Tables) that use a high-level key that enables you to identify
and retrieve data from the system. A secondary high-level key,
referred to as a SetID, has also been added on various tables.
SetIDs are simply the labels used to identify a TableSet.
Business Unit and SetID functionality in PeopleSoft HRMS also
provides you with a higher business level for reporting purposes
and other business data roll-up.
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