1. Overview: The Preferred Name in Oracle HCM is stored in the KNOWN_AS column of the Person Names Table. To display it on pages and make it searchable, the Display Name and List Name formats need to be updated.
1. Requirement: When terminating a Line Manager, their direct reportees need to be reassigned to a new manager. This process ensures a smooth transition of managerial responsibilities.
1. Requirement: Creating a notification using Alert Composer in Oracle HCM to automate alerts for specific resources. 2. Steps to Create a Notification: Navigate to Tools → Alerts Composer. Click on the Add drop-down and select Resource Alert. Select the Resource (e.g., Employees - "emps"). Add a Filter to define the alert conditions.
1. Requirement: Configuring an approval rule in BPM Worklist to manage requests for new positions in Oracle HCM. 2. Solution/Workaround: Open the BPM Worklist.
1. Requirement: Configuring an Exceptional Approval Rule in BPM Worklist is essential for handling special approval scenarios beyond standard workflows.
1. What is Reference Data Sharing? Reference data sharing in Oracle HCM allows organizations to group and share set-enabled reference data like jobs, departments, locations, and grades across different business units. This ensures consistency while allowing business-specific configurations.
1. What are Grades in Oracle HCM? Grades represent the level of compensation assigned to jobs and employees. They can be created with or without steps to define salary progression within an organization.
1. What is a Geography Tree in Oracle HCM? A Geography Tree represents a structured hierarchy of locations where an enterprise operates. It organizes countries, states, and cities into a tree format, allowing organizations to define location-based operations, calendar events, and workforce management policies.
1. What is Geography in Oracle HCM? Geography in Oracle HCM represents any area with a boundary, such as countries, states, cities, and postal codes. It is essential for defining work locations, legal entities, and employee addresses in the system.
Functional Setup Manager (FSM) is an Oracle Cloud tool used for configuring and implementing modules like HCM, Payroll, Finance, and Benefits. It provides a structured process for setting up, testing, and deploying enterprise configurations. FSM is primarily used by implementers, project managers, and consultants to configure system settings, manage implementation tasks, and migrate configurations from test environments to production.
The Enterprise Structures Configurator (ESC) is an interview-based tool in Oracle HCM that assists in efficiently setting up the basic enterprise structure. It streamlines the creation of divisions, legal entities, business units, and reference data sets based on responses to guided questions.
An Enterprise in Oracle HCM represents the top-level organization within a company’s structure. It includes the headquarters and serves as the central entity overseeing all business units, legal entities, and workforce relationships.
Oracle HCM provides a Sandbox environment that allows users to make customizations without affecting the live production system. This feature enables administrators to test changes, develop configurations, and validate modifications before deploying them to the main environment.
The employment model in Oracle HCM consists of two main entities: Work Relationships and Work Assignments. This model can be configured at the enterprise level or at the legal employer level using the Manage Enterprise HCM Information and Manage Legal Entity HCM Information tasks in the Setup and Maintenance work area.
The issue arises when attempting to change the legal employer hire date of a line manager from 1st February 2021 to 1st January 2021 in Oracle HCM. The system throws an error: "You can’t select this date because some assignments in the work relationship are used in a manager relationship. Remove the manager relationship to continue. (PER-1531839)"
Documents of Records (DOR) in Oracle HCM store and manage individual records such as passports, driving licenses, visas, pay slips, and medical certificates in a digital format. Access to these documents is controlled through security profiles, ensuring that only authorized users can view or modify them. Depending on the document type, approvals may be required before they become accessible. Key tasks include
A department in Oracle HCM represents an organizational unit where workers are assigned, and operational responsibilities are managed independently of its leader. Departments can track financial performance through cost centers and are often classified based on their function, such as Sales, Research, Development, or Human Resources. Managers oversee budget control, asset tracking, and workforce
Oracle HCM allows organizations to create department trees to represent hierarchical relationships within the enterprise. Using predefined tree structures, multiple department trees and their versions can be built to organize departments efficiently. The first node in a department tree represents a department, with all child nodes also being departments. A department can only appear once within the same tree version.
Departments in Oracle HCM can be classified into different categories, such as Project Organization, Sales and Marketing Organization, or Cost Organization based on their function within the enterprise. Oracle Fusion HCM utilizes hierarchical tree structures to model organizational relationships, allowing businesses to manage department classifications efficiently. These predefined tree structures help
A work relationship defines the connection between a person and a legal employer in Oracle HCM. Every work relationship includes at least one assignment and can belong to categories such as Employee, Contingent Worker, Nonworker, or Pending Worker. The document explains key concepts like primary and nonprimary work relationships, managing multiple work relationships across legal employers, and