An introduction to organization hierarchy

We have completed some basic level setup of organizations. As of now, these organizations are independent and are not linked to each other in any way.

We need to set a relationship between these organizations. In other words, we need to set a hierarchy of organizations. Organization hierarchy sets the relationships between the organizations you have defined.

While defining an organization hierarchy, we tell the Oracle application which organizations are reporting to which other organizations. Business group is generally the topmost organization in the hierarchy.

You can create more than one organization hierarchy, and you can create multiple versions of an organization hierarchy

In our case, US BG is the topmost organization. West Regional Office is second in the hierarchy that reports to US BG.

There is a product line, Washington Unit, that reports to the regional office. The other two stores report to the product line. The hierarchy that we will build...