Business Unit
A corporation or a subset of a corporation that is independent with regard to one or more
operational or accounting functions. PeopleSoft General Ledger business units typically
comprise individual entities for accounting purposes.
Business units in PeopleSoft Projects represent operational structures but not necessarily
independent financial units.
PeopleSoft Payables business units are either Vouching (have payables accrued to them) or
Charge to (have voucher expense distributions charged to them), and pass journals to general
ledger units.
PeopleSoft Purchasing business units share vendor, purchase order, and receiving information
with PeopleSoft Payables units in the same SetID.
A PeopleSoft Inventory business unit is a storage facility that maintains its own replenishment
and costing methods, as well as its own definitions and guidelines.
The Manufacturing business unit must be identical to the Inventory business unit in order to
link the manufacturing and inventory processes.
The Order Management business unit controls certain order processing parameters (tax and
freight calculation methods, base currency, credit card hold options, and so on) for its
associated PeopleSoft eStore and Mobile Order Management merchant variants.
