Getting the organization unit of a responsibility used ...

Question

Hi,
Are there any manners to get the organization unit according to the responsility the user selected...????
For example...
Assume that the user has the following responsibility:
inventory employee <-----------role as a single inv. employee(access only to view)
admin of inventory N234 <-----------role as an admin to this particular inventory(access to view, edit, check, ...)
admin of inventory N239 <-----------role as an admin to this particular inventory(access to view, edit, check, ...)
e.t.c..
How is it possible to correlate the responsibilities 2,3 (of the above list) to the organization units(units of a company) coded as 234, 239 respectively..???
I assume that this can be done using a profile (at responsibility level and/or user level)...In this case is there any profile name i can use..or i should create a new one...??? ----{I use the MO:Organization Unit to get the business group id/company}.
Is it possible to acheive the above through the use of a form parameter...(but the question is how to correlate the specific to an organization unit responsibility to a code representing this unit (inventory N234) without the use of a profile - as a second manner)...???
Note: I use 11.5.10 EBS
Many thanks,
Sim

Answer 1

Hi Sim,
One thing you need to be carefull about is in what context you need the ID of a certain organizational unit. There are different types of orgs that are in play at different times.
e.g. Operating Unit is the securing attribute for many subledgers such as Order Management, Accounts Receivables/Payables, Purchasing.
Inventory Unit is relevant when you look at Inventory Transactions, Costing, Planning etc.
If we assume that you are only interested in INV orgs then whenever you enter a form that deals with inventory related issue the user is prompted to choose an organization and the choice results in setting the context variable MFG_ORGANIZATION for the session.
If you want to control which Inventory Organization a user or responsibility has access to you go to Inventory > Setup > Organizations > Organization Access. Here you can restrict access by Responsibility. Take a carefull look into the help text to understand implications - I have copied the first couple of paragraphs:
+You can specify which organizations a responsibility can access by mapping responsibilities to organizations. Once this mapping is set up, a user logging into an Oracle Manufacturing product is restricted to the organizations mapped to the responsibility chosen. The Change Organization window is restricted as well.
Attention: Until you assign an organization to a responsibility in this window, all responsibilities have access to all organizations. Once you have restricted any responsibility to an organization, you must then explicitly define the organizations which all responsibilities can access.
Attention: This feature does not restrict access once the user is in the product. Users with access to functions that cross multiple organizations (such as ATP, Inter-organization Transfers, Item Search, Multi-organization Quantity Report, and so on) can still specify any valid organization when running these functions.+
/Niels LM