A department OBS type and location OBS type are required for each financial entity. Once you associate a department OBS and location OBS with an entity, these OBS's:
Department OBS Type
A department OBS type represents your company's organization chart.
CA Clarity PPM administrators are responsible for defining the department OBS type and its OBS levels from the Administration Tool.
Department managers are primarily responsible for creating departments. When a department manager creates a department, an OBS unit is also created in the OBS hierarchy based on the selected entity and optionally a parent department.
Note: See the Common Features and Personal Options User Guide for more information.
When managers associate resources, projects, investments, and services with an entity-associated department OBS, this OBS is listed in relevant pages as Department regardless of how it was named by your CA Clarity PPM administrator. Department as an entity-associated department will always appear at the bottom of any relevant Organization Breakdown Structure list.
The following documents describe how to associate resources, projects investments, and services to a department:
Location OBS Type
A location OBS type represents the geographical locations of a company's departments. CA Clarity PPM administrators are responsible for defining the location's OBS type and OBS levels from Administration tool.
Financial administrators are responsible for creating locations as part of the financial setup. When a location is created in during financial setup, an OBS unit is created in the OBS based on the selected entity.
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