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Profile Management Overview

Administration features allow Organization Managers to . Person definitions include login names and passwords, group and role assignments, and individual contact information. Organization definitions include identifying numbers, Internet addresses, and location information.

The term company, sometimes called parent company, refers to a top-level corporate entity. A subsidiary is a division of a company. A business unit is an operating unit of a company or of a subsidiary. A location is a physical site where an organization does business. For example, a location may be a headquarters, manufacturing plant, shipping address, etc. As the below diagram shows, all organization types can have employees and locations. A company or subsidiary can also have many business units and subsidiaries. Every location for a business unit also belongs to the company. Business units can be further divided into departments.

Every registered employee must be associated with a company and may be associated with a subsidiary, business unit, and/or department within the company.

A location must be associated with a company or a business unit. Similarly a region can be associated with a company or a business unit and sub regions can only be associated with a region. But a sub business unit can only be associated with a business unit and business units can be associated with a company or a region.

An organization can have several users defined in the role of Organization Manager. Each Organization Manager has access to information for his/her own organization and all subordinate organizations. For example, a company, XYZ Corp may have 2 business units, W Corp and V Corp. The Organization Manager for XYZ Corp can add and modify information for both W Corp and V Corp. The Organization Manager for V Corp can add and modify information only for V Corp.

If a business unit has no Organization Manager assigned to it, then all notifications that would normally go to the Organization Manager for the business unit are sent to Organization Manager of the parent company.