Business Group reorganizations often entail changing many employee records in the same way. Because Mass Move allows you to modify multiple employee records at once, you can make such changes conveniently.
You can move a group of assignments to different positions either within an organization or between organizations. You can move assignments to existing positions or create new positions for them. You can also change the grade, location, and standard conditions of an assignment. US and Canadian users can also change the GRE/Legal Entity of an assignment.
To prepare for your mass move, you must make certain decisions and ensure that certain prerequisites are in place.
The following checklist takes you through the main decision areas.
What is my source organization? (The mass move transfers assignments from the source organization.)
What is my target organization? (The mass move transfers assignments to the target organization. The target organization can differ from or be the same as the source organization.)
What is the effective date for the mass move?
What are the source position(s)? (The mass move transfers assignments from the source position(s) within the source organization).
Do I want to deactivate the source position?
What are my target position(s)?
If my target position(s) are new, will their location and standard conditions be copied from the source position, target organization, or Business Group?
What grades are valid for the target position(s)?
Which assignment(s) will transfer from my source position(s) to my target position(s).
Will the grade of any transferring assignment change during the mass move?
(US and Canadian users) Will the GRE/Legal Entity of any transferring assignment change during the mass move?
Will the location and standard conditions of any transferring assignment change during the mass move?
As you reorganize your Business Group over time, you will develop an historical archive of mass moves. This archive consists of:
All executed mass moves for which Status=Complete
Any executed mass moves for which Status=Complete with Warnings
Any saved but unexecuted mass moves (Status=Unprocessed or Status=In Error) that you have not deleted
Because it is important to maintain an historical record of Business Group reorganizations, you cannot delete a mass move when its status is Complete or Complete with Warnings. However, you can delete any unexecuted mass moves you chose to save but which have a status of Unprocessed or In Error.
Re-executing a mass move overwrites its original contents. Thus, only the latest re-execution of that mass move would appear in the historical archive.