Employee and contractor number generation

Question

We are implementing Oracle HRMS Rel 11i. We would like to record regular employees and contractor details. For contractors, we need to track and report on their assignments (department, job, location) and payrate alongwith their general information. So I feel that contractors should correspond to 'Employee' person type. A further requirement is that the employee/contractor number generation needs to be automatic and separate ranges (employees starting with 1 and contractors starting with 5000) need to be used. Is it right to set contractors as employee type and is automatic number generation using separate ranges possible?

Answer 1

Yes, you should have contractors as employee system type, otherwise you can not pay them.
we can not define a sequence to that with out wirting custom code.
But we can do it by creating either a new user person type or user status (on assignment) and use that to track the contractors. which also gives you flexibility in reports, by filtering the assignment status or person type, which ever you want to configure.