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44 Using organizational resource types and resources
About organizational resource types
Organizational type resources
Table 8-1
Resource type
Company
Cost Center
Department
Location
User
Description
Contains the company details, the internal and the external. For
internal companies, it acts as a higher level of organization than
the department level. In some situations, a single company
consists of multiple smaller companies. This resource type lets
you record data about these companies. If you have structured
your resource management system as a single company, this
resource type might not be needed for internal company data.
Used to enter cost center code values, which are used for
accounting related data. Summary data includes a list of all
resources and the costs that are associated with the particular
cost center. With each cost center, you can associate a location.
However, if your organization is structured such that a single
cost center that spans across multiple locations, you do not use
this field. You would, however, be able to specify a cost center
for each location. This resource type is a hierarchal resource
type.
See About hierarchal resource types"
Contains department data. Each department also lets you specify
a manager for the department from the User resource type,
location, and cost center. Summary data includes a list of all
resources and the costs that are associated with the particular
department. This resource type is a hierarchal resource type.
A place that is associated with your business, such as a country,
city, building, floor of a building, and office. Each location is
associated with a cost center. This resource type is a hierarchal
resource type.
People in your company. This resource type is associated with
the company and the department resource types. Although this
resource type is an organizational resource type, it is not
hierarchal. A common way to enter user data is to import the
data.
If you import your data and it contains department data, you can
use this data to automatically assign users to departments. To
do this task you must enter the department data before you
import the user data.
See About organizational groups and views"
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