You can manage objects that you are responsible for within your company. Possible objects are:
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Identities
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Hierarchical roles
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Organizations
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Departments
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Cost centers
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Locations
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Business roles
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Company resources
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You can perform a variety of actions on the departments that you manage and gather information about them.
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You can display all the departments for which you are responsible.
To display departments
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Open the home page.
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On the Home page, in the My Responsibilities tile, click Departments.
This opens the Departments page and displays all the departments for which you are responsible.
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(Optional) To display details of a department, next to the department, click Edit.
You can edit the main data of the departments for which you are responsible.
To display and edit a department's main data
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Open the home page.
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On the Home page, in the My Responsibilities tile, click Departments.
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On the Departments page, next to the department whose main data you want to show/edit, click Edit.
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In the Edit Department pane, make your changes in the corresponding fields.
Table 20: Department main data
Department |
Enter a full, descriptive name for the department. |
Short name |
Enter a short name for the department. |
Object ID |
Enter a unique object ID for the department. For example, the object ID is required in SAP systems for assigning identities to departments. |
Parent department |
Click Assign/Change and select a department to be the parent department for organizing the department hierarchically. If you want the department at the root of a department hierarchy, leave the field empty. |
Manager |
Select the manager who is responsible for the department. |
2nd Manager |
Select an identity to act as a deputy to the department's manager. |
Additional manager |
Click Assign/Change and select a cost center. Members of the selected application role are responsible for the department. |
Location |
Click Assign/Change and select the location the cost center is primarily assigned to. |
Attestors |
Click Assign/Change and select a cost center. Members of the selected application role can approve attestation cases for the department. |
Cost center |
Click Assign/Change and select the location the department is primarily assigned to. |
Role approver |
Click Assign/Change and select an application role. Members of the selected application role can approve requests for members of the department. |
Role approver (IT) |
Click Assign/Change and select an application role. Members of the selected application role can approve requests for members of the department. |
Description |
Enter a description for the department. |
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Click Save.