Configuring Processor Groups

Processor Groups and Team Leads

Using processor groups, you define teams the processors are working in. You can use the team lead to find processors in those groups.

Using processor groups and team leads is optional. For reporting purposes, Reporting Groups can also be used. Processor groups are helpful when entering indirect labor tasks for a group and when more complex relationships are modeled.

An office setting with a laptop and a coffee cup on a table. Two people are discussing a document with graphs and notes. Below is a diagram showing relationships between entities: Miller is responsible for Group B, which is connected to Sanders and Travel, both processors under Group B marked as TLM0001 and TLM0002.

If you want to work with processor groups, you create the processor groups as business partners of the Group type. In the business partner transaction for the processor, you can assign the processor to a processor group using the relationship category TLM0001: Is a Processor Of. For the team lead, you use the relationship category TLM0002: Is Responsible for Group. You can also make these assignments from the processor group, using the relationship categories FLM0001: Has the Processor respectively FLM0002: Has Responsible for Group.

Group Hierarchies

You can also build up hierarchies of processor groups. This allows you to select all the processors of a group or within the group hierarchy with one data entry. You can assign a processor group to another processor group using the relationship category TLM0003: Is a Subgroup Of and FLM0003: Has a Subgroup.

Flowchart showcasing relationships between different groups and entities. Starting at the left, a light blue box labeled xxx connects downward with the text TLM0002: Is responsible for group to a blue box labeled Group C. Beneath Group C, a series of stacked light blue boxes labeled xxx connects upward with the text TLM0001: Is a processor of. Group C connects upward to a blue box labeled Group D through the text TLM0003: Is a subgroup of. On the right side, a blue box labeled Group B sits beneath Group D, connected upward by the text TLM0003: Is a subgroup of. A light blue box labeled Miller connects to Group B with the text TLM0002: Is responsible for group, and beneath Miller, a stacked series of blue boxes labeled Travel connect upward with the text TLM0001: Is a processor of. Group B is connected to Group D with the text TLM0003: Is a subgroup of.

Summary

Using processor groups, you define teams the processors are working in. You can use the team lead to find processors in those groups.
If you want to work with processor groups, you create the processor groups as business partners of the Group type.
You can also build up hierarchies of processor groups. This allows you to select all the processors of a group or within the group hierarchy with one data entry.

How to Create Processor Groups and Assign Team Leads

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