Enterprise Structures:

Oracle Fusion Applications have been designed to ensure your enterprise can be modelled to meet legal and
management objectives.

Every enterprise has three fundamental structures that describe its operations and provide a basis for reporting.

1. Legal
2. Managerial
3. Functional

Management Structure: The management structure can include divisions, subdivisions, lines
of business, strategic business units, profit, and cost centres.

Functional Structure: In Oracle Fusion Applications, the functional structure is implemented

using departments and organizations, including sales, marketing, project, cost, and inventory organizations

Configuration Workbench: (Questioner to client)

The Oracle Fusion Enterprise Structures Configurator (ESC) is an interview-based tool to help you analyse how
to represent your business in the Oracle Fusion Applications. The interview process poses questions about the
name of your enterprise, legal structure, management reporting structure, and primary organizing principle for
your business. Based on your answers, the applications suggest the best practices to use to implement business
units in your enterprise

Global Enterprise Configuration: Points to Consider

Start your global enterprise structure configuration by discussing what your organization's reporting needs are
and how to represent those needs in the Oracle Fusion Applications. The following are some questions and
points to consider as you design your global enterprise structure in Oracle Fusion.

• Enterprise Configuration
• Business Unit Management
• Security Structure
• Compliance Requirements

Enterprise Configuration:
• What is the level of configuration needed to achieve the reporting and accounting requirements?
• What components of your enterprise do you need to report on separately?

Business Unit Management:

 • What reporting do I need by business unit?
• How can you set up your departments or business unit accounts to achieve departmental hierarchies
that report accurately on your lines of business?
• What reporting do you need to support the managers of your business units, and the executives who
measure them?
• How often are business unit results aggregated?
• What level of reporting detail is required across business units?

Security Structure:
• What level of security and access is allowed?
• Are business unit managers and the people that report to them secured to transactions within their own
business unit?
• Are the transactions for their business unit largely performed by a corporate department or shared
service centre?

Compliance Requirements:
• How do you comply with your corporate external reporting requirements and local statutory reporting
requirements?
• Do you tend to prefer a corporate first or an autonomous local approach?
• Where are you on a spectrum of centralization, very centralized or decentralized?