Definition

Assignments between objects.

Use

If, when processing organizational data, you have defined assignments between objects, the system stores these assignments as relationships in this infotype. You use assignments between objects to enter the following business issues in the system:

• Hierarchical structures

  You define assignments between objects to describe their hierarchical relationship to each other. For example, you assign organizational units to each other hierarchically to represent the organizational structure of your enterprise or your organization and assign the individual organizational units the positions that belong to them. You also use assignments to state which employee staffs which position.

• Object characteristics

  You can use assignments to define object characteristics if own object types are planned to represent these characteristics in the system in the data model for the component Personnel & Organization You can use the assignment of jobs to positions to describe the characteristics.

• Relationships to objects of other components

  You can use assignments to represent relationships between objects of the component Personnel & Organization and objects of other components in the system. You can thus assign organizational units or positions to cost centers to represent the relationship between the organizational structure and the cost center structure.

You can use the functions of the component Personnel & Organization to represent the following assignments:

Structure

The system stores the data on assignments in the infotype Relationships (database table HRP1001). The following relationships are available:

You can view all relationships and relationship characteristics available in the system in Customizing for the component Personnel & Organization, under  Infotypes  Infotypes for Organizational Objects  Relationship Maintenance . Only the relationships mentioned above are relevant for the component Personnel & Organization.