If you have enabled HR Cross Business Group Access, you can define global organization hierarchies in Oracle Projects. A global organization hierarchy is a hierarchy that contains organizations from more than one business group. Global hierarchies can be used to define global security profiles to allow a responsibility access to organizations and employees across business group boundaries.
The following illustration shows an example of a global organization hierarchy.
Example Global Organization Hierarchy
In order for employees of U.K. Services to charge expenditures to projects owned by any of the U.S. operating units, a global hierarchy must be defined. The hierarchy will also allow the U.K. Services operating unit to own projects and tasks that are defined in the U.S. operating units.
Once you define the global hierarchy, you can use it to create a global security profile. Global security profiles are security profiles that are not associated with a business group. Users can view all organizations and all employees defined by the organization hierarchy assigned to the profile. See: Defining Global Security Profiles.
After you define one or more global hierarchies and global security profiles, you can assign global hierarchies to each operating unit that will use global resources. This is done in the Organization Classifications region of the Organizations window.
Global hierarchies can be used as follows:
To expand an operating unit's default organization reporting parameter, assign a global hierarchy to the operating unit's Default Reporting Hierarchy.
To expand the project and task organization list of values during project setup, assign a global hierarchy to the operating unit's Project/Task Owning Hierarchy.
To expand which person or expenditure organization can charge expenditures in an operating unit, assign a global hierarchy to the operating unit's Expenditure Organization Hierarchy.
Note: If you use a global hierarchy for expenditures, persons, and/or non-labor resources, you must have an appropriate cost rate assigned in each operating unit used by those resources to enter their expenditures.
For more information about assigning organization hierarchies, see Organizations.