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Important Features of Multi org

1. Multiple Organizations in a Single Installation
2. You can define multiple organizations and the relationships among them in a single installation of Oracle Applications. These organizations can be sets of books, business groups, legal entities, operating units, or inventory organizations.
3. Secure Access - You can assign users to particular organizations. This ensures accurate data transactions to the correct operating unit.
4. Sell and Ship Products From Different Legal Entities You can sell from one legal entity and ship from another, posting to each organization’s set of books.
5. Purchase and Receive Products Between Organizations
6. You can enter purchase orders and assign for receipt any inventory organization that uses the same set of books.
7. Automatic Accounting for Internal Requisitions
8. You can create an internal requisition (sales order) in one organization, then ship from another organization, with accurate inter company invoicing.
9. Improved Database Architecture
10. Beginning with Release 10.6, there is one Applications All Objects Oracle schema, referred to as the APPS schema. You can secure data by implementing the Multiple Organization Support
11. Verify Your Enterprise Structure - After you have implemented the Multiple Organization Support feature, you can execute a report to identify setup problems. The Multiple Organization Setup Validation Report identifies errors and, if you choose, automatically makes adjustments to your enterprise setup.
12. Automatic Seed Data Replication The Multiple Organization Support feature will automatically replicate seed data to the new business units you define.

Type of Organizations in Oracle Apps

Every enterprise has an organizational hierarchy for easy management and process streamlining. Each sub organizations serve a different purpose and improves efficiency of the enterprise. To acheive this efficiency oracle apps provies 6 Types of Organizations.
Set of Books
A financial reporting entity that uses a particular chart of accounts, functional currency, and accounting calendar. Oracle General Ledger secures transaction information (journal entries, balances) by set of books. When you use Oracle General Ledger, you choose a responsibility that specifies a set of books. You then see information for that set of books only.

Business Group
Represents the consolidated enterprise, a major division, or an operation company. Human resources information is secured by business group. For example, when you request a list of employees, you see all employees assigned to the Business Group of which your organization is a part.

Legal Entity
Represents a legal company for which you prepare fiscal or tax reports. You assign tax identifiers and other legal entity information to this type of organization.

Balancing Entity
An entity for which you prepare a balance sheet, represented as a balancing segment value in your accounting flex field. Each legal entity can have one or more balancing entities. You can use Flex field Value Security rules to restrict data entry of balancing segment values by legal entity or operating unit.