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Implementing Global HR: From Enterprise Model to Live Workforce · Module 4 · Legal Entities, LDGs, PSUs, TRUs and Business Units

Business units

Lesson 40 of 175 · 14 min

What a business unit does in HCM specifically: it scopes reference data sets and provides a security and reporting dimension. It is not the same object it is in Financials, where it drives transaction processing — and if you took that course, this is a place where prior knowledge actively misleads. Then granularity. Fewer is better until a specific requirement forces more. Legitimate drivers: distinct reference data needs, security scoping, distinct operating models. Not legitimate: department structure, geography for its own sake, tidiness. And the global-versus-country question, worked honestly. One global business unit means shared jobs and grades and simpler maintenance; country business units mean local reference data and cleaner security. Both are defensible, and the deciding question is whether jobs and grades are genuinely global. Then the build: create the business units, assign the default reference data set, set the location and manager, and review.

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In this module: Module 4 · Legal Entities, LDGs, PSUs, TRUs and Business Units

  1. 1What we are building
  2. 2The decisions you cannot undo
  3. 3The object map
  4. 4Legislative data groupsFree preview
  5. 5Legal employers, PSUs and TRUs
  6. 6Running the structure design workshop
  7. 7Four worked country models
  8. 8Legal jurisdictions and authorities
  9. 9Creating legal entities
  10. 10Designating legal employers, PSUs and TRUs
  11. 11Creating legislative data groups
  12. 12Business units
  13. 13Reference data sets
  14. 14Associating business units with legal employers
  15. 15Deduction levels and calculation cards
  16. 16Proving the structure works
  17. 17What breaksFree preview
  18. 18Lab briefing: the Northwind structure
  19. 19Lab solution walkthrough