ORACLE HRMS – FAQ’s

1. What are the implementation steps in Oracle HRMS?

Ans: Following are how to implement Oracle HRMS

-- Define Key Flex fields

-- Define Descriptive Flex fields
-- Define Business Group
-- Set required Profile Options
-- Define Location
-- Define Organization
-- Define Grades
-- Define Jobs
-- Define Positions.
-- Set required Lookup values
-- Set person type and assignments type as per requirement.
-- Associate Special Information with your Responsibility
-- Register Extra Information and associate with your Responsibility

Full Time Equivalent (FTE)

A Workforce Measurement Type (WMT) that measures full time equivalent. Although the actual value and
calculation may vary, this value is taken from the Assignment Budget Value (ABV) in Oracle HRMS. If the
Assignment Budget Value in Oracle HRMS is not set up then a Fast Formula is used to determine the
value to be calculated.

EIT s are Descriptive Flexfields SITs are Key Flexfields

Whereas Extra information is stored in a Special information is stored in a key

descriptive Flexfield table where the Flexfield combination table where the
combination of attribute values does not combination of segment values must be
need to be checked for uniqueness. unique.

Extra information are available in various While SIT's are all in one place (Special
locations (screens) such as: Person, Information Screen).
Assignment, Position...etc;
Securing an EIT is different than securing an Where SIT is secured through custom nodes
SIT (EIT is specific to legislation and and workflows).
responsibility.

While there is none in EIT. For each record in SIT, there is Start and
End dates

1. What are flex field Qualifiers? What is the purpose of a flex field qualifier? Why is it
needed when you can have a unique name for a segment?
Ans: Flex field qualifiers are basically used to identify the nature of the segment at the
flex field level. Qualifiers like Balancing, Cost Center, Inter Entity, Natural Account etc..,
Indicates the type of segment.

For Ex-> Normally company segment is qualified as Balancing, which will intimate that
the debits should balance the credits for a particular account for a specified company.
i.e.., for a specific GL code combinations.

Hence having unique names to the segments/flex field has no connection with this as
the purpose of the above is totally different.

2. How do you terminate an employee?

 Ans: To terminate an employee:

1. Optionally, enter the reason for the termination. You can define valid reasons as values
for the Lookup Type: LEAV_REAS.

Note: When you enter the termination reason of deceased and an actual termination date, if
an employee's date of death has not been entered in the Other Information tabbed region of
the People window, it is set to the actual termination date.

If you use Oracle Payroll in the UK and the employee is deceased, you must select
the reason Deceased. This records the information on.

2. Enter the termination dates. Only the Actual date is required. This is the date when
the employee's person type changes to Ex-employee. The Notified and Projected
dates are for information only. The Final Process date is a date after which no
further pay processing for the employee can occur, if you are using Oracle Payroll.

For the Final Process date:

 If you need to process pay for the employee after his or her termination, set the Final
Process date later than the Actual date, or leave it blank.

This means that the employee's assignments are given the default user status for the HR
System Status Terminate Assignment. If there is more than one user status defined for this
system status, the system prompts you when you choose the Termination button, to select
which status to enter on the employee's assignments.

 If you do not need to continue processing, set the Final Process date to the Actual date.

Note: If you are an Oracle Payroll user, you must also enter a Last Standard Process Date. This
is the last date for normal processing, while the Final Process date is the last date for late
payments. Element entries are closed down on the Last Standard Process Date, the Actual
date, or Final Process date, depending on how you have defined the elements.

3. When the information is complete, choose the Terminate button to complete the
termination.

4. KFF’s in Payroll?
Payroll:
Bank Details Flex Field, Cost Allocation Flex Field, People Group Flex Field

5. Bank Details in payroll? Is it a KFF or anything?

Payroll: Bank Details Flex Field. It is a KFF.

6. Eligibility criteria for dates in Termination window?

7. Assignment window payroll fields?
Ans: Payroll,
Salary Information,
Salary Button &
Others Button.

8. Security Profiles and if I have to see only one organization in one location and as
single operating unit? Then.

9. System Profile Options?

HR: BUSINESS GROUP
HR: SECURITY PROFILE
HR: CROSS BUSINESS GROUP
HR: DATE TRACK
HR: USER TYPE

10.Absence management?
 Absence Balance Information
When you define an absence type, you specify whether the application should maintain
an increasing balances, a decreasing balance, or no balance of time off. The balance is
a running total of the hours or days an employee has taken for the absence type, as
recorded in the Duration field.

11. How many types of key flex fields are there in Oracle HRMS?
Ans: Human Resources: Job Flex Field, Position Flex Field, Grade Flex Field,
Competence Flex Field, Personal Analysis Flex Field, Soft Coded Flex Field

12. Extra Information Types? How many types?

EIT’s are DFF’S; Types are Extra Assignment Information, Extra Contact Information,
Extra Document Information, Extra Job Information, Extra Person Information, Extra
Position Information, and Extra Previous Job Information.

13. Name the date track profile options with their usage?

Date Track: Security

Date Track: Enabled
Date Track: User type
Date Track: Reminder

14. What are the date tracks supported windows in HR?

People, Assignment, Position, Payroll, Element.

15. Name the ways of creating contacts in HR?

People Window, Others Button, Navigation tools: Contacts.

16. What are the flex field qualifiers of Cost allocation KFF?

17.How different competence structures can be used through HR? explain

ANS: …………………………………………………………..
 18. Once the employee record is created, is it possible to change the effective date of the
employee record?

Ans: No we cannot change the effective date as it is date tracked.

19. What is the difference between effective date and latest start date in people window?
Ans: Alter Effective Date Window is to set the effective date and remove the end date.
Latest start date is the date when the new employee joins the company on the
effective date.

20. Name the lookup to create recruitment types?

Ans: REC_TYPE

21. What is secondment & explain the parties involved in secondment?

Initiating a Temporary Secondment

When the HR Professional initiates a temporary secondment, the status of the
deployment proposal changes from Draft to Active.

In the source business group, HRMS:

Changes the current assignment status to the default suspended-assignment status.
The effective date of the change is the start date of the deployment.

******* If the default suspended-assignment status is not included in a payroll, but

you want to continue paying the employee in the source business group, you can
change the assignment status manually ********

Leaves the person type unaltered. However, you can update the person type manually
to indicate that the employee is on secondment, for example.

In the destination business group, HRMS creates or updates employee assignment, and
contact records using information from the deployment proposal. The person type and
assignment status are those entered in the deployment proposal for the new
assignment.

22. What is the usage of permit recruiting in positions window?

Use the Permit Recruiting check box to identify, for your own information, a position
that is frozen but due to become active in the near future.
Note: The Permit Recruiting check box is for information purposes only.

23. How employee number will be generated in HR? Explain

Go to Organization, click on business group and select the option under business group
info and make the employee generation number as manual or automatic.

24. Name the assignment statuses?

(7 in a List)
Active Assignment, Active Appointment, End, Separated, Terminate Assignment,
Appointment, and Transfer & Voluntary Separation.

25. HOW TO REGISTER EIT?

Go to Processes and reports and submit a request in order to register the extra
information type.

26. IF THE CUTOFF IS 21-JAN-2011 AND NEW EMPLOYEE JOINS ON 25-JAN-2011, WHAT IS
THE PROCEDURE TO GET THE PAY FOR NEW EMPLOYEE?
 ANS: RUN QUICK PAY

27. Why is costing needed in payroll?

Ans: Because each employee that gets paid, their costs must be reflected in Oracle
General Ledger. If IT department employs Anil Passi, then IT Departments Cost Centre
will bear my cost. Effectively IT Department will pay for my salary from their budget.

28. Every employee assignment record in Oracle HRMS is attached to an Organization.

Organizations are usually mapped to cost centers. Is that true?
Ans: Yes, in most cases this will hold true.

29. APIs in HRMS?

API is used in HR to insert the data into the Base tables. As its very secured system, the
user does not have the facility to copy the data directly into the Base tables. When we
write the inbound interfaces / use WebAdI, the systems will use the APIs to store the
data into system. The API are published by oracle with number of parameters. The
different types of parameters are IN / INOUT / OUT. Of these parameters few are
mandatory, without which the process won’t complete. Generally when we use API we
give data for: Object Version Number, Effective Date, P_validate.

30. How does the number generation of an employee/contingent worker/Applicant depend

on?
Business Group Info*
Attribute

31. What are the minimum classifications to create a Business Group?

(i) Business Group
(ii) GRE/Legal Entity (Government Regulatory Entity)
(iii) HR Organization

32. What are the Pre-Requisites for creating a Business Group?

(i) Value Sets
(ii) Key Flex fields
(iii) Locations

33. What is the use of HR Organization?

If we want to assign the employee information to a Business Group then we need to
have HR Organization classification under a Business Group.

What is People Group?

(i) It is a Flexible area for holding user-defined assignment data.
(ii) Data can be used for grouping sets of assignment together.
(iii) People group can be used for Element eligibility.
(iv)This information is used by the Payroll Run.
(v) The data will be held in PAY_PEOPLE_GROUPS.
(vi) GROUP_NAME field holds the concatenation of Segment data.

What is the KFF structure for SIT?

Personal Analysis Flex fields

what is the DFF structure for EIT?

(i) Extra Person Information
(ii) Assignment Extra Information
(iii) Extra Location Information
(iv) Extra Position Information
(v) Extra Job Information
(vi) Organization Developer DF

How to enable SIT?

Switch Responsibility to ‘Human Resources, Vision Enterprises’
Double click on ‘Other Definitions’
Click on ‘Special Information Types’
What is the use of Date Track?
1) It is used to maintain the record history by creating a new record when the date track
mode is UPDATE and override on the existing record when the Date track mode is
CORRECTION.
2) The value of the Date Track record depends on the date.
3) Tables ending with _F are date track tables.
4) To control data tracked rows, every Date Track table must include Effective_start_date &
effective_end_date.
5) The Effective_Start_Date indicates when the record inserted.
6) The Effective_End_Date indicates when the record updated or deleted.

What is the difference between flexfield qualifier and segment qualifier?

Flexfield qualifier identifies segment in a flexfield and segment qualifier identifies value in a
segment.

There are four types of flexfield qualifier 1) Balancing segment qualifier 2) cost center 3)
natural account and 4) intercompany

segment qualifier :- 1) allow budgeting 2) allow posting 3) account type 4) control account
and 5)reconciliation flag
Is it possible to enable/disable only few fields of any DFF?
Yes, it is possible to enable or disable few fields in DFF by using Check Box

June 24, 2012

What is the significance of cross validate segments in the Key flex field structure
screen ?
set_item_property disable that field. Same way we can do enable the
DFF
Cross validation prevents the users from entering the invalid flexfield combinations.
This is applicable to all the responsibilities

Can we disable/enable a whole DFF(not few attributes)

Yes this can be done with Custom.pll It has a procedure call Event.In this procedure u
can capture events like when-new-form-instance,when-new-item-instance etc So
capture tht event on which u want to disable your DFF and use
name_in('system.current_form/item') to know the name of ur DFF and then using form
built-in

Do we need to register Standard DFF? s?

Standard DFF's are given by Oracle. We need not register. We can register
only Custom DFF’s.

How do I enter the default value of Key flex field or DFF segment?

While defining segments or attribute of KFF or DFF in segment(accounting flex

field) window in validation box select constant in default type and enter default
value.

What is the difference between key flex field and Descriptive flex field?

Key Flexfield is used to describe unique identifiers that will have a better meaning than
using number IDs. e.g a part number, a costcentre etc

Desc Flex is used to just capture extra information.

 Key Flexfields have qualifiers whereas Desc Flexfields do not.
Desc Flexfields can have context sensitive segments while Key flexfields cannot
KFF:-
->USED TO CAPTURE KEY INFORMATION
WHICH IS AVAILABLE IN CODE LANGUAGE
EACH AND EVERY CODE WILL HAVE SPECIFIC MEANING IN ORACLE APPLICATION
->WE HAVE NO CONTEXT FIELD
->WE REGISTER 29 INBUILT COLUMNS
->USED SEGMENT COLUMNS
->KFF DEFINES TO CAPTURE VALID INFORMATION

DFF:-
->USED TO CAPTURE EXTRA INFORAMATION FROM ENDUSER
->WE HAVE CONTEXT FIELD
->MAX DFF'S REGISTER
->USED ATTRIBUTE COLUMNS
->DFF ACCEPTS WHAT EVER DATA FROM
END USER

What are context sensitive segments in descriptive flexfields?

Context Sensitive segments in descriptive FFs are segments which can be made
available or not based on the values entered by the Users in a 'Context' field. This helps
in building a value based logic for the FF

How do we make the segments in a particular flexfield mandatory?

Since a flexfield is composed of segments and a value set must be defined to the segment
(at least format type , max size, etc for validation Type=None), a minimum rule is then
defined (type and size of data). The user must enters a value, if not there will be an error
shown to the user.
What is the use of Group Flex field and where exactly we use?
Group Flexfield is Used in Oracle Payroll. This Group Flexfield catches the information to
which the employee belongs. eg :Regular then the employee belongs
to Regular payroll Group

Based on our requirements we categorize the employees in to groups for easy identification
purpose.
How do I enable a database column to use it in a DFF segment?
Open Flexfield => Descriptive=>Register and query required DFF. Click on "Columns"
button enable/disable required columns there.
Which procedure should be called to enable a DFF in a form?
FND_DESCR_FLEX.DEFINE (BLOCK => 'BLOCK_NAME'
,FIELD => 'FORM_FIELD_NAME'
,APPL_SHORT_NAME => 'APP_NAME'
,DESC_FLEX_NAME => 'DFF_NAME'
);
How many flexfields are there in total modules
There are Two types of flexfielld they are

1. Descriptve flexfield(which is optional)

2. keyflexfield

IN keyflex thereare 33 key flexfilds which are used in varios modules of

oracle application package.
What is Costing sub module in Oracle HRMS?

There is no such module in HRMS. But the expenses incurred because of HR activities such as
Recruitment expenses, Learning Expenses (Training, Training facilities etc) and Time & Labor
expenses (Project related expenses) and other misc expenses are Budgeted through providing
the Costing information trhough the Cost Allocatiion Flex Field details in respective windows.

Even the employee pay and facilities are also been costed and allocated through the same
Cost Allocation Flexfield information.

All these expenses are later transferred to General Ledger, to have an overall accounting at
one particular point

RE: What are the key tables used in HRMS?

There are many tables used in HRMS. I have listed some tables.

PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F
PER_ALL_ASSIGNMENTS_F
HR_ALL_ORGANIZATIONS_UNITS
PER_LOCATIONS_ALL
PER_POSITION_DEFINITAION
PER_POSITIONS
PER_GRADES
PER_JOBS
PER_PERSON_TYPES
PER_ASSIGNMENT_TYPES
PER_PERSON_TYPE_USAGE
PER_PEOPLE_EXTRA_INFO
PER_DISABILITIES
PER_QUALIFICATIONS
PAY_PEOPLE_GROUP

HRE: How do you define B.G.?

Description: Use this form to define the Business Groupnavigation: HR: Work Structures
Organisation>DescriptionFor example “Go4Asset Management”This is defined in the
Organization screen itself,You can define various defaults like Employee Number/Applicant
Number Generation being Manual or Automatic. Also, here you will attach the structure of all
the Key Flexfields which you define . Also the default Payroll currency gets attached to the
Business group.

RE: How do you define B.G.?

The highest level in an organization in Oracle HRMS system. A Business Group may correspond
to the whole of your enterprise or to a major grouping such as a subsidiary or operating
division. Each Business Group must correspond to a separate implementation of Oracle HRMS.

RE: How do you define B.G.? SINGLE UNIT

By default " Setup Business Group" available in the system.This BG info visible to all the
employees,to represent a single Unit..Hence in order to make partition on the Employee
data(create a separate Group) we need to create new BG.

On the whole defining a BG will be totally depends on the Physical existence of HR

departments.

Question : How many business groups to create?

Answer : How many HR departments available?(partition of employee data)

What is date tracking, how it is used in HRMS ?

Well date tracking is a feature in Oracle HRMS esp with all tables whose names end with _F
eg: per_all_people_f. Now what happens here is we cannont purge a record what we can do is
end date a record and if we need to create an extension eg: of an assignment then we end-
date the assignment and on a new record that is appended to the table we create a new
record with starting date after the end date and can restate the assignment, used in cases of
Re-hire after end of assignment or in the extension of assignment beyond the end date. It
helps Oracle maintain historical data and hence the tables are data trackable.

How is employment information maintained in Oracle

At table level, employee records are stored with effective start date and end date. Whenever
you change any record in the Employee record in UPDATE mode, a new row is created at back-
end. Hence history gets stored in system.
At front end you have option to select effective date to get effective record on that date.

Enter and Maintain contains most of the required information related to employee. If you have
some more information to cover, you can use Extra Information or Special Information to store
details.

RE: What are the steps involved in implementation of O...

Following are the steps to implement Oracle HRMS,

-- Define Key Flexfields

-- Define Descriptive Flexfields
-- Define Business Group
-- Set required Profile Options
-- Define Location
-- Define Organization
-- Define Grades
-- Define Jobs
-- Define Positions
-- Set required Lookup values
-- Set person type and Assignments type as per requirement
-- Associate Special Informationa with your Responsibility
-- Register Extra Information and associate with your Responsibility

What are the system administration tasks in Oracle...

Following are the tasks for system administrator

-- Set Profile Options

-- Create Menu and Request Group for Custom Responsibilities
-- Create Responsibilities
-- Create Users
-- Attached Responsibilities with User

RE: What are the modules available in Oracle HRMS?

Core HR
Self Services HR(SSHR)
Payroll (Includes Standard Benefits )
Advanced Benefits (OAB)
Talent Management (Performance Management)
Oracle Time and Labour(OTL)
Oracle Learning Management(OLM)
iRecruitment(iRec)
Compensation Workbench(CWB)
HR Budget(HRB)

How people management is achieved using Oracle HRMS?

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Oracle Payroll Retro Pay

RetroPay is a payment made for an event of past. Retro Pay stands for some old Payment due
for the employee. This is used for Back Dated Salary Increments.

There are four ways.

1. RetroPay by Run
2. RetroPay by Aggregate
3. RetroPay by Element
4. Enhanced RetroPay

RE: What are the advantages of Oracle HRMS over peoplesoft HRMS?
Oracle HRMS is more secured than People Soft HRMS.

RE: What are the vital features of Oracle HRMS?

Vital features are:
People, Assignment, Work Structure, Compensation and Benefits.

How is new report created in Oracle HRMS?

Discoverer, BI Reports, Copy existing report and register with different name.

What are the key flexfields present in Oracle HRMS...

There are 8 Key Fields, Namely

1. Job Key FlexFields.
2. Position Key FlexFields.
3. Grade Key FlexFields.
4. Cost Allocation FlexFields.
5. Competence FlexFields.
6. People Group FlexFields.
7. Personal analysis flex field
8. Banking flex fields

Ques: What is the difference between per_people_f and per_all_people_f

Ans: PER_PEOPLE_F is a secured view on top of PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F. The secure view uses an
API hr_security.show_person.
This API internally checks for an entry in table PER_PERSON_LIST for the logged in person's
security profile. A concurrent program named “Security List Maintainence program" will insert
records in PER_PERSON_LIST

Oracle HRMS Self Service Interview Some Simple Questions

Qns 1 :
If you do personalization at both FUNCTION level and Responsibility level, which
personalization has higher precedence?
Ans 1:
Responsibility level. Responsibility level will override FUNCTION level personalizations.

Qns 2:
Say you have done a lot of Personalizations to Self Service Screens.
But all these Personalizations were done in DEVELOPMENT environment.

How many types of payroll Runs are there?

Ans: Two types

1. Regular pay
2. Quick pay

1. Extra Information Type (EIT)

A type of developer descriptive flexfield that enables you to create an unlimited
number of information types for six key areas in Oracle HRMS. Localization teams may
also predefine some EITs to meet the specific legislative requirements of your country.

2. Special Information Types

Categories of personal information, such skills, that you define in the Personal Analysis key
flexfield.

3. SSHR
Oracle Self-Service Human Resources. An HR management system using an intranet
and web browser to deliver functionality to employees and their managers.

4. iRecruitment
iRecruitment is a web-based recruitment solution that enables your enterprise to
manage all recruitment activities using a single self-service interface and provides an
easy-to-use interface for job seekers as well.

iRecruitment includes a separate homepage for each group of iRecruitment users: site
visitors, registered users, managers, recruiters, and agency users. The homepages
outline the iRecruitment functions available for each user, and provide direct access to
these functions.

5. What is date tracking, how it is used in HRMS?

Well date tracking is a feature in Oracle HRMS esp. with all tables whose name sends with _F
eg: per_all_people_f. Now what happens here is we cannot purge a record what we can do is
end date a record and if we need to create an extension e.g.: of an assignment then we end-
date the assignment and on a new record that is appended to the table we create a new
record with starting date after the end date and can restate the assignment used in cases of
Re-hire after end of assignment or in the extension of assignment beyond the end date. It
helps Oracle maintain historical data and hence the tables are data track table.

6. Is Address form date tracked?

No. it’s not Date tracked. It’s a “Dated” form.

7. What are the date tracking options while deleting a record?

1. End Date (Marks record as ended as of today)

2. Purge (Completely deletes records – including any date tracked versions)
Can we delete an employee forever? How?
– Using Delete person form. There are some bugs in this functionality. Like it won’t delete the
TCA parties’ information.
Use ‘Delete personal record’ form from front end. But employee should not be an application
user (end date the username before delete) and should not be having payroll run data.

8. How many key flex fields in HRMS?

Let me brief about HRMS first:

HRMS includes Payroll, but we have Payroll as a separate application when query KFFs. There
are 10 KFFs in HRMS.

1. Job KFF
2. Position KFF
3. Grade KFF
4. Competence KFF

(The above four KFFs are part Human Resources application)

5. People Group KFF and 6. Cost allocation KFFs are part of Payroll Application.

Above six are mandatory KFFs which we need to create before creating BG.

The other KFFs are:

7. Personal Analysis KFF (based on the requirement) Example: Special Information Type
8. CAGR KFF (If there exists structured Unions and contingent workers) this will not be used
normally.
9. Soft Coded KFF.
10. Bank Details KFF (if there is no localization for the country we need to create the structure)

9. What are the key tables used in HRMS?

There are many tables used in HRMS. I have listed some tables.

PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F
PER_ALL_ASSIGNMENTS_F
HR_ALL_ORGANIZATIONS_UNITS
PER_LOCATIONS_ALL
PER_POSITION_DEFINITION
PER_POSITIONS
PER_GRADES
PER_JOBS
PER_PERSON_TYPES
PER_ASSIGNMENT_TYPES
PER_PERSON_TYPE_USAGE
PER_PEOPLE_EXTRA_INFO
PER_DISABILITIES
PER_QUALIFICATIONS
PAY_PEOPLE_GROUP

There are many tables which are important under HRMS but to name some of them
1) HR_POSITIONS
2) PER_ASSIGNMENTS
3) PER_PAY_BASIS
4) PER_PAY_PROPOSALS
5) HR_ORGANIZATIONS
6) HR_ORGANIZATION_UNITS etc..,
It’s been a while since I worked on Oracle apps but still I am sure these are correct tables.

Important Tables in HRMS

PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F,
PER_PERSON_TYPES,
PER_PERSON_TYPE_USAGES,
PER_ADDRESSES,
PER_CONTACT_RELATIONSHIPS,
PER_PERIODS_OF_SERVICE
PER_ALL_ASSIGNMENTS_F,
PER_PAY_GROUPS,
PER_JOBS,
PER_JOB_DEFINITIONS,
PER_GRADES,
PER_GRADE_DEFINITIONS,
HR_ALL_POSITIONS,
HR_ALL_POSITION_DEFINITIONS,
HR_ALL_LOCATIONS,
PAY_ALL_PAYROLLS_F
PAY_ELEMENT_ENTRY_VALUES_F,
PAY_ELEMENT_ENTRIES_F,
PAY_ELEMENTS_LINKS_F,
PAY_ELEMENT_TYPES_F
S?
10. What is advanced benefits module in Oracle HRMS?

Oracle Advanced Benefits (OAB) takes care of the management of Benefits Administration
part. It has very advanced features like Life Event Triggering / Processing FSA administration
Reimbursement processing Communications relating to Benefits etc.

11. What are the advantages achieved by an organization by using Oracle HRMS?

1. Using Oracle HRMS you have a single source of employee info which can be leveraged
using other modules of Oracle Apps. It also provides integrated multi org structure
which can be effectively used in other modules of Apps. It also defines structured group
job grade roles etc which are required for the successful operation of an organization.

2. With Oracle HRMS you can define your own human resource model to reflect your own
enterprise structures and policies. This information model lets you record the personal
work and pay information for all the people you want to hold and process.

3. Remember the pyramid kind structure: People, WS and Compensation benefits with
Assignments being the basis.

4. This model is both flexible and adaptable. It is flexible so that you can reflect the needs
of different companies or different groups within the same company. It is adaptable so
that you can easily change the basic model as your enterprise changes.

12. What are the reports available with Oracle HRMS?

Absences Report
Assignment Status Report
Current and Projected Progression Point Values Report
Element Link Details Report
Employee Increment Results Report
Employee Movements Report
Employee Summary Report
Full Personal Details Report Set
Full Applicant Details Report
Full Assignment Details Report
Full Person Details Report
Full Work Details Report
Job and Position Skills Matching Report
Organization Hierarchy Report
Position Hierarchy Report
Requisition Summary Report
Salary Review Report
Skills Matching Report
Staffing Budget Details Report
Terminations Report

13. What are the tools used with Oracle HRMS?

The tools used in HRMS are:

Discoverer -- To develop reports
Web ADI -- Either to upload or down load the data from Oracle to legacy system or viceversa
RDF Reports -- Standard reports developed by Report Builder
 TOAD -- Testing Tool
Data Loader -- To upload different data into oracle data base
XML Publisher -- Integrated Oracle Reports with the help of Microsoft Template Builder

14. What is difference between configuration, customization and interface?

Configuration means - configure the application according to your requirement.
Customization means alter / change /create forms, reports according to your organization
requirements
Interface means connect your apps with other 3rd part application

Examples;
Customization means we are customizing the standard object (Report/Form) which is provided
by oracle applications.
Interface means which data comes from third party and we are loading into the system.
Configuration means just like installation of software.

In layman's wording:-
Customization means changing the source code of forms.
Interfacing is used for importing/exporting data from any third party software
Configuration means enabling the setup for business requirement.

15. What is the difference between rehire and reverse-termination?

Ans: Rehire – This means, you are hiring an ex-employee again after interviewing him for a
certain position. So the person will have a new service record but the personal details might
remain the same…

When an employee is terminated as per the process or by mistake and then there is a
requirement to call back the employee immediately after termination, is known as reverse
termination .It means you reverse the process and retain the employee…When you reverse
terminate the process the termination details are cleared and his employment details
continues with the same assignments and with the same service period.

16. What is a security profile?

Security profile provides more security within BG. It helps in determining what users have
access to what data.
Ans:The levels where you can have security profile are:
Organization, Position, Payroll, Supervisor
User specific: you can restrict / give permission to any user you can also have Custom security.

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